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#1 2008-11-20 22:06:58

sessy
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Registered: 2006-01-20
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[solved] QuodLibet UnicodeDecodeError

I have QuodLibet 2.0-3, starting it gives an error message:

Initializing audio backend (gstbe)
Initializing main library (~/.quodlibet/songs)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/quodlibet", line 274, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/quodlibet", line 36, in main
    library=const.LIBRARY,
  File "/build/pkg/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quodlibet/__init__.py", line 158, in init
  File "/build/pkg/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quodlibet/library/__init__.py", line 31, in init
  File "/build/pkg/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/quodlibet/__init__.py", line 70, in print_
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 1-3: invalid data

How can i fix it?

Last edited by sessy (2008-11-21 23:42:26)

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#2 2008-11-21 20:23:28

sessy
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Re: [solved] QuodLibet UnicodeDecodeError

*bump*

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#3 2008-11-21 22:11:18

Allan
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Re: [solved] QuodLibet UnicodeDecodeError

If /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pygst.pyc exists on your system, delete it.

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#4 2008-11-21 22:43:03

sessy
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Re: [solved] QuodLibet UnicodeDecodeError

Thanks, but unfortunately it's not present.

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#5 2008-11-21 22:48:15

Allan
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Re: [solved] QuodLibet UnicodeDecodeError

Actually looking at the error message in more detail....  it appears something in your library has become corrupt or has a bad UTF8 character.  Try deleting/moving your library (don't know the file off-hand) and regenerating it.  If that does not work, regenerate part at a time until you find the offending file.

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#6 2008-11-21 23:42:04

sessy
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Re: [solved] QuodLibet UnicodeDecodeError

Seems like Quodlibet from extra has a problem on my system... I have removed it, now the package from the official site works without any problem.

Thanks for the ideas!

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