Description
Problem
Running this command in verbose (-vv) mode:
$ $ ./bin/beet -vv import -gC /media/nicolas/musique/
user configuration: /home/nicolas/.config/beets/config.yaml
data directory: /home/nicolas/.config/beets
plugin paths:
lyrics: Disabling google source: no API key configured.
fetchart: google: Disabling art source due to missing key
fetchart: lastfm: Disabling art source due to missing key
Sending event: pluginload
library database: /media/nicolas/musique/musiclibrary.db
library directory: /media/nicolas/musique
Sending event: library_opened
Sending event: import_begin
state file could not be read: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/nicolas/.config/beets/state.pickle'
ignoring '.directory' due to ignore rule '.*'
ignoring '.folder.png' due to ignore rule '.*'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/util/__init__.py", line 413, in bytestring_path
return str_path.encode(_fsencoding())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udce9' in position 14: surrogates not allowed
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/nicolas/beets/./bin/beet", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
^^^^^^
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 1870, in main
_raw_main(args)
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 1849, in _raw_main
subcommand.func(lib, suboptions, subargs)
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/ui/commands.py", line 1398, in import_func
import_files(lib, paths, query)
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/ui/commands.py", line 1329, in import_files
session.run()
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 360, in run
pl.run_parallel(QUEUE_SIZE)
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/util/pipeline.py", line 446, in run_parallel
raise exc_info[1].with_traceback(exc_info[2])
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/util/pipeline.py", line 260, in run
msg = next(self.coro)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 1444, in read_tasks
yield from task_factory.tasks()
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 1259, in tasks
for dirs, paths in self.paths():
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 1309, in paths
for dirs, paths in albums_in_dir(self.toppath):
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/importer.py", line 1770, in albums_in_dir
for root, dirs, files in sorted_walk(
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/util/__init__.py", line 229, in sorted_walk
base = bytestring_path(str_base)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/nicolas/beets/lib/python3.12/site-packages/beets/util/__init__.py", line 415, in bytestring_path
return str_path.encode("utf-8")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udce9' in position 14: surrogates not allowed
Led to this problem:
I can't use beets to tag my music library.
Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
- Python version: 3.12
- beets version: 2.2.0
- Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): no
My configuration (output of beet config) is:
lyrics:
bing_lang_from: []
auto: yes
synced: yes
bing_client_secret: REDACTED
bing_lang_to:
google_API_key: REDACTED
google_engine_ID: REDACTED
genius_api_key: REDACTED
fallback:
force: no
local: no
sources:
- google
- genius
- tekstowo
- lrclib
dist_thresh: 0.1
directory: /media/nicolas/musique
# --------------- Main ---------------
library: /media/nicolas/musique/musiclibrary.db
import:
copy: no
# --------------- Plugins ---------------
plugins: discogs lyrics autobpm chroma fetchart lastgenre lyrics replaygain
discogs:
apikey: REDACTED
apisecret: REDACTED
tokenfile: discogs_token.json
source_weight: 0.5
user_token: REDACTED
separator: ', '
index_tracks: no
append_style_genre: no
fetchart:
auto: yes
minwidth: 0
maxwidth: 0
quality: 0
max_filesize: 0
enforce_ratio: no
cautious: no
cover_names:
- cover
- front
- art
- album
- folder
sources:
- filesystem
- coverart
- itunes
- amazon
- albumart
- cover_art_url
store_source: no
high_resolution: no
deinterlace: no
cover_format:
google_key: REDACTED
google_engine: 001442825323518660753:hrh5ch1gjzm
fanarttv_key: REDACTED
lastfm_key: REDACTED
lastgenre:
whitelist: yes
min_weight: 10
count: 1
fallback:
canonical: no
source: album
force: yes
auto: yes
separator: ', '
prefer_specific: no
title_case: yes
replaygain:
overwrite: no
auto: yes
backend: command
threads: 12
parallel_on_import: no
per_disc: no
peak: 'true'
targetlevel: 89
r128: [Opus]
r128_targetlevel: 84
command: ''
noclip: yes
chroma:
auto: yes
autobpm:
auto: yes
overwrite: no
beat_track_kwargs: {}
Thanks for your help!