Blockify crashes during playback of ads with certain characters

[retsifp]

In the last days, blockify crashes when a "Ö" is inside the title of the ad (An IKEA ad atm)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blockify/cli.py", line 252, in update self.found = self.find_ad() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blockify/cli.py", line 272, in find_ad self.ad_found() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blockify/cli.py", line 298, in ad_found self.toggle_mute(1) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blockify/cli.py", line 329, in toggle_mute self.mutemethod(mode) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/blockify/cli.py", line 421, in pulsesink_mute log.info("Muting {}.".format(self.current_song)) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd6' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

[gmdfalk]

Thanks for the report.
That should be an easy fix.

However, can i ask why you are still using Spotify < 1.0.0 (and thus the legacy version of blockify)?

That error would not occur in blockify >= 3.0.0.

[retsifp]

Spotify Version is (according to my dpkg) 1:1.0.26.125.g64dc8bc6-15
Blockify Version is 3.4.0

I removed the line mentioned above and a other (similar) one, but the Ad with the "Ö" didn't occur so far 😉
Will report if my "hack" works 😄

[retsifp]

I just got the IKEA-Ad again and it's working perfectly now! 😊 👍

[gmdfalk]

Great. I'm still a little concerned that you managed to install blockify as a python 2 package but if it works, it works.

[retsifp]

Well 😅 I used sudo pip install . for the legacy-version and didn't get the information that I needed to do it with pip3 for the new version 😉

One of your latest commits, however, broke it (muted the music and un-muted the ads 😂) and I needed to do it with pip3 😄