discogs communication error

[simonbcn]

When I try to import the album 'Stories' from Avicii, it shows this error:

discogs: Communication error while searching for 'Avicii Stories': Only unicode objects are escapable. Got XQoOecWCCgbpXpkCOLJgobbSXIpjJAQkKMsDjzHb of type <type 'str'>.

[sampsyo]

Thanks for the report. Can you please include full bug-report details (version, verbose log, command, etc.)?

[simonbcn]

beets git version

beets version 1.3.16
plugins: badfiles, convert, discogs, duplicates, fetchart, info, lastgenre, replaygain, scrub, zero

$ beet config

paths:
    default: $albumartist/$album/$track - $title
    singleton: $artist - $title
    comp: Varios/$album/$track - $title
convert:
    auto: yes
    tmpdir: /tmp
    command: ffmpeg -i $source -y -codec:a libmp3lame -vn -qscale:a 1 $dest
    extension: mp3
    embed: yes
    quiet: yes
    threads: 7
    never_convert_lossy_files: yes
    format: mp3
    dest:
    copy_album_art: no
    max_bitrate: 500

    paths: {}
    pretend: no
    formats:
        alac:
            command: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec alac $dest
            extension: m4a
        aac:
            command: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec libfaac -aq 100 $dest
            extension: m4a
        opus: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec libopus -ab 96k $dest
        mp3: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -aq 2 $dest
        flac: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec flac $dest
        ogg: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec libvorbis -aq 2 $dest
        wma: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec wmav2 -vn $dest
scrub:
    auto: yes
thumbnails:
    force: yes
fetchart:
    auto: yes
    maxwidth: 300
    cautious: yes
    minwidth: 0
    sources:
    - coverart
    - itunes
    - amazon
    - albumart
    cover_names:
    - cover
    - front
    - art
    - album
    - folder
    remote_priority: no
    enforce_ratio: no
duplicates:
    path: yes
    count: no
    full: no
    format: ''
    keys: []
    move: ''
    tag: ''
    copy: ''
    tiebreak: {}
    album: no
    strict: no
    checksum: ''
    merge: no
    delete: no
zero:
    fields: comments
    update_database: yes
    keep_fields: []
embedart:
    auto: yes
    maxwidth: 300
    remove_art_file: yes
replaygain:
    backend: bs1770gain
    overwrite: yes
    targetlevel: 89
    auto: yes
    chunk_at: 5000
    method: replaygain
lastgenre:
    canonical: yes
    count: 1
    source: album
    force: yes
    min_weight: 10
    auto: yes
    whitelist: yes
    separator: ', '
    fallback:
library: /home/simon/.beets/musiclibrary.blb

plugins: convert replaygain lastgenre fetchart info discogs scrub duplicates badfiles replaygain zero
directory: "/home/simon/M\xFAsica/"

import:
    art: yes
    languages: es en

match:
    strong_rec_thresh: 0.3
    max_rec:
        missing_tracks: strong
discogs:
    tokenfile: discogs_token.json
    apikey: REDACTED
    apisecret: REDACTED
    source_weight: 0.5

$ beet -v import /dunehd/Musica\ pendiente/Avicii-Stories-CD-FLAC-2015-VOLDiES/
user configuration: /home/simon/.config/beets/config.yaml
data directory: /home/simon/.config/beets
plugin paths: 
Sending event: pluginload
library database: /home/simon/.beets/musiclibrary.blb
library directory: /home/simon/Música
Sending event: library_opened
Sending event: import_begin
Sending event: import_task_created
Sending event: import_task_start
Looking up: /dunehd/Musica pendiente/Avicii-Stories-CD-FLAC-2015-VOLDiES
Tagging Avicii - Stories
No album IDs found.
Search terms: Avicii - Stories
Album might be VA: False
discogs: Communication error while searching for 'Avicii Stories': Only unicode objects are escapable. Got XQoOecWCCgbpXpkCOLJgobbSXIpjJAQkKMsDjzHb of type <type 'str'>.
Evaluating 5 candidates.
Candidate: Avicii - Stories
Success. Distance: 0.00
Candidate: Avicii - Stories
Success. Distance: 0.00
Candidate: Avicii - Stories
Success. Distance: 0.00
Candidate: Avicii - Stories
Success. Distance: 0.03
Candidate: Avicii - Stories
Success. Distance: 0.05

/dunehd/Musica pendiente/Avicii-Stories-CD-FLAC-2015-VOLDiES (14 items)
Tagging:
    Avicii - Stories
URL:
    http://musicbrainz.org/release/9408288b-4d6c-4df5-9e08-ee65498a0535
(Similarity: 100.0%) (CD, 2015, XE, PRMD)
 * Waiting For Love       -> Waiting for Love
 * Talk To Myself         -> Talk to Myself
 * For A Better Day       -> For a Better Day
 * Can't Catch Me         -> Can’t Catch Me
 * Somewhere In Stockholm -> Somewhere in Stockholm
Sending event: import_task_choice
found duplicates: [548]
This album is already in the library!
Old: 14 items, MP3, 226kbps, 54:40, 89.0 MiB
New: 14 items, FLAC, 949kbps, 54:39, 372.4 MiB
[S]kip new, Keep both, Remove old? r
Sending event: import_task_apply
0 of 14 items replaced
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replaygain: analyzing Avicii - Stories
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artresizer: method is (2, (6, 7, 7))
artresizer: ImageMagick resizing /tmp/tmpHW_u3_.jpg to /tmp/tmpArhMyE.jpg
removing 14 old duplicated items
Sending event: database_change
Sending event: item_removed
deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/01 - Waiting for Love.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/02 - Talk to Myself.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/03 - Touch Me.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/04 - Ten More Days.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/05 - For a Better Day.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/06 - Broken Arrows.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/07 - True Believer.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/08 - City Lights.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/09 - Pure Grinding.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/10 - Sunset Jesus.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/11 - Can’t Catch Me.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/12 - Somewhere in Stockholm.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/13 - Trouble.mp3
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deleting duplicate /home/simon/Música/Avicii/Stories/14 - Gonna Love Ya.mp3
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[sampsyo]

Can you please try upgrading the Discogs client library to the latest version from PyPI?

This seems to be related to the fix for #1656, where we needed to switch to bytestrings instead of Unicode. I looks like your setup doesn't like that.

[simonbcn]

I have installed/upgraded with pip. My environment:

Python 2.7.8
beet git version 1.3.16
discogs-client 2.2.1
requests 2.8.1
urllib3 1.12

[sampsyo]

OK, I reverted my "fix" for the other issue. That should do it.