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'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xdd in position 55: invalid continuation byte

See original GitHub issue

Hello,

i try to run but come across error output

❯ miniplayer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ahloi/.local/bin/miniplayer", line 455, in loop
    self.handleKeypress()
  File "/home/ahloi/.local/bin/miniplayer", line 263, in handleKeypress
    if self.checkSongUpdate() == 1:
  File "/home/ahloi/.local/bin/miniplayer", line 220, in checkSongUpdate
    song = self.client.currentsong()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mpd/base.py", line 435, in mpd_command
    return wrapper(self, name, args, callback)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mpd/base.py", line 498, in _execute
    return retval()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mpd/base.py", line 420, in command_callback
    res = function(self, self._read_lines())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mpd/base.py", line 360, in _parse_object
    objs = list(self._parse_objects(lines))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mpd/base.py", line 206, in _parse_objects
    for key, value in self._parse_pairs(lines)
:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mpd/base.py", line 201, in _parse_pairs
    for line in lines:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mpd/base.py", line 552, in _read_lines
    line = self._read_line()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/mpd/base.py", line 534, in _read_line
    line = self._rbfile.readline().decode("utf-8")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xdd in position 55: invalid continuation byte

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ahloi/.local/bin/miniplayer", line 487, in <module>
    player.loop()
  File "/home/ahloi/.local/bin/miniplayer", line 482, in loop
    if error:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'error' referenced before assignment
~
❯

this happened both build install (miniplayer-git on arch repo and PyPi) any help is appreciated, thanks

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

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ahloiscreamocommented, Jan 31, 2021

Hey it finally works!

finally

Thanks for taking your time and helping out, i appreciate it! THANK YOU !!! i hope the projects reach to many people, i don’t know why mod remove it on reddit.

I will close the issue.

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ahloiscreamocommented, Jan 31, 2021

i see, ok i’ll be back in a second

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