UnicodeDecodeError - so lost

[slackeroni]

a friend of mine introduced me to soundscrape, and pretty much walked me through the whole process, I initially installed python 2.7.11 since it was working perfectly for him, and I further progressed to installing soundcrape on cmd upgrading it, now where i hit a brick wall is that when I attempted to download a few songs I kept getting an error:
C:\Users\pejma>soundscrape https://soundcloud.com/doucefrance/pulsometre
Active code page: 65001
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 162, in run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "C:\Python27\Scripts\soundscrape.exe__main.py", line 9, in
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\soundscrape\soundscrape.py", line 113, in main
process_soundcloud(vargs)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\soundscrape\soundscrape.py", line 283, in process_soundcloud
id3_extras=id3_extras)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\soundscrape\soundscrape.py", line 452, in download_tracks
puts_safe(colored.red("Problem downloading ") + colored.white(track['title']))
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\soundscrape\soundscrape.py", line 1153, in puts_safe
puts(text.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors='replace').decode())
File "c:\python27\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 56: ordinal not in range(128)

Now whats really odd, even though i went through the same process as my friend did, he was able to download that particular file, and according to him, he didnt get the active code page: 65001 when trying to download.

[brachna]

Downloaded fine here. The first e in pulsometre is unicode, so it should print Pulsom?tre, but in your case it can't for some reason and generates an error.
Try upgrading with "pip install soundscrape --upgrade".
If it doesn't help, try with latest Python 3.5.2 instead of 2.7.11.

I think print(e) on line 453 should be deleted, because it will try to print unicode characters and crash on Windows.

[bluesodium]

i get this when its the 2nd time i run soundscrape in the same cmd window.

[Dom-R]

Quick fix for me was commenting line 1153 on soundscrape.py

def puts_safe(text):
    if sys.platform == "win32":
        #puts(text.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors='replace').decode())
        puts(text)
    else:
        puts(text)

[jorge705]

python -m pip install -U pip

<3

[Miserlou]

Sorry are you guys trying to say that the code somebody added to make it work on Windows is the thing that's breaking it on Windows?

[Dom-R]

Yes. At least for me it crashes everytime there is a special character like 'Ø'. (Windows 10 Home x64)

[brachna]

@Dom-R
That was added by me and for a reason.
python soundscrape.py -f "https://soundcloud.com/doucefrance/pulsometre"
crashes for me if I apply your modification.

Update.
Found that without -f argument soundscrape downloads fine for first time, but generates an exception if file is already downloaded. In exception block there's no encoding check for print, so it bombs.
On line 451:

except Exception as e:
    puts_safe(colored.red("Problem downloading ") + colored.white(track['title']))
    #print(e)

Fixes the crash.

Now to figure out why exception is generated when running without -f.

[bluesodium]

Bizarrely for me. soundscrape works fine first time i run it.
Every subsequent run it errors (windows Python 2.7. updated PIP using python -m pip install -U pip):

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 174, in run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "c:\python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "C:\Python27\Scripts\soundscrape.exe__main.py", line 9, in
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\soundscrape\soundscrape.py", line 113, in
main
process_soundcloud(vargs)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\soundscrape\soundscrape.py", line 283, in
process_soundcloud
id3_extras=id3_extras)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\soundscrape\soundscrape.py", line 452, in
download_tracks
puts_safe(colored.red("Problem downloading ") + colored.white(track['title']
))
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\soundscrape\soundscrape.py", line 1153, in
puts_safe
puts(text.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors='replace').decode())
LookupError: unknown encoding: cp65001

looks like a pip error..

[brachna]

@bluesodium
I'm gonna make pull request soon with new fixes. Give it a try then, I think I fixed the issue.

[bluesodium]

Dom-R fixes it for me

[brachna]

Perhaps Python 2 doesn't support it.
Can you run following lines in the Python Shell and tell the result:
import sys
"Pulsomètre".encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors='replace').decode()

[bluesodium]

here you go:

File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8a in position 6: ordinal
not in range(128)

[brachna]

I see.
Can you try with these 3 lines now, please.
import os, sys
os.system("chcp 65001")
"Pulsomètre".encode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors='replace').decode()

Do you get the same error?

[bluesodium]

no, it bombs out of the python shell, back to the regular command line