UnicodeDecodeError in play plugin

[multikatt]

when playing

└─[$] <git:(master*)> beet ls dislocation blues                                                                                                                           
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Stagger Lee
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Twelve Thousand Miles
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - When I Paint My Masterpiece
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Rocket House
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - The Road Leads Down
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Dislocation Blues
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Forever In My Life
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Velocity Girl
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Ravenswood
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Underground
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Changing Of The Guard
Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang - dislocation blues - Motion Bride

I'm getting

└─[$] <git:(master*)> beet -v play dislocation blues
user configuration: /home/tuff7/.config/beets/config.yaml
data directory: /home/tuff7/.config/beets
Sending event: pluginload
no config file found at /home/tuff7/.beetsconfig
library database: /home/tuff7/.config/beets/library.db
library directory: /home/tuff7/Music
Sending event: library_opened
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/beet", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('beets==1.3.8', 'console_scripts', 'beet')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 964, in main
    _raw_main(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 954, in _raw_main
    subcommand.func(lib, suboptions, subargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/beetsplug/play.py", line 104, in play_music
    log.debug(u'Output of {0}: {1}'.format(command[0], output))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)

[sampsyo]

Thanks for the report! The above should fix it. Can you confirm whether that works now?

[multikatt]

Yes! Thanks for the quick fix.