Crash on initial playlist reading in 0.3

Can you please try with exaile trunk and report back? the code that this is referring to has taken a fairly major change since then.

Not sure how to use "exaile trunk" but using the latest weekly package:

exaile_0.3.0_20090520.tar.gz 20-May-2009 18:00 1.3M

I get the following very similar result:

INFO : Loading settings
INFO : Loading Exaile 0.2.99.1+...
INFO : Loading plugins...
INFO : Loading collection...
INFO : Loading devices...
INFO : Loading interface...

(exaile.py:14917): libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id '_New Playlist'

(exaile.py:14917): libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id 'Open _URL'

(exaile.py:14917): libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id '_Collection Manager'

(exaile.py:14917): libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id 'Pl_ugins'

(exaile.py:14917): libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id '_Go to Playing Track'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "exaile.py", line 55, in <module>
    main()
  File "exaile.py", line 52, in main
    exaile = main.Exaile()
  File "/home/km/Desktop/exaile/xl/main.py", line 74, in __init__
    self.__init()
  File "/home/km/Desktop/exaile/xl/main.py", line 168, in __init
    self.gui = xlgui.Main(self)
  File "/home/km/Desktop/exaile/xlgui/__init__.py", line 52, in __init__
    exaile.player, exaile.queue, exaile.covers)
  File "/home/km/Desktop/exaile/xlgui/main.py", line 251, in __init__
    'saved_tabs')
  File "/home/km/Desktop/exaile/xl/playlist.py", line 1064, in __init__
    self.load_names()
  File "/home/km/Desktop/exaile/xl/playlist.py", line 1123, in load_names
    pl.load_from_location(os.path.join(self.playlist_dir, f))
  File "/home/km/Desktop/exaile/xl/playlist.py", line 768, in load_from_location
    locs.append(line.decode('utf-8').strip())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 84: unexpected code byte

May 27th weekly version still not working. The error message is a bit different on the warnings but not on the crash.

I've managed to fix my system. I deleted the directory ~/.local/shared/exaile

So this may be a bug, or it may just be a case of needing apt to completely uninstall the bzr version. (Not sure which versions use ~/.local/shared/exaile as opposed to ~/.exaile )

marking invalid since it appears to no longer be an issue