Comment 2 for bug 135921

I'm not sure if this will help, but I've included the output that exaile 0.2.11 gives:

loading tracks...
done loading tracks...
loading songs
Clearing tracks cache
Last playlist loaded
Starting scan timer at 25
Running is False
File count: 448
/usr/lib/exaile/xl/xlmisc.py:703: GtkWarning: gtk_text_buffer_emit_insert: assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed
  self.buf.insert(iter, text)
Couldn't read tags from file: /home/username/documents/music/Rammstein/Rosenrot/07 Zerst�en.mp3
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 run ( /usr/lib/exaile/xl/library.py @ 616):
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/xl/library.py", line 654, in run
    self.do_function(loc)
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/xl/library.py", line 804, in do_function
    path_id = get_column_id(db, 'paths', 'name', unicode(loc, xlmisc.get_default_encoding()))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 57-60: invalid data

Created db for thread Thread-6
{'Thread-6': <sqlite3.Connection object at 0xb55ac890>}
Closed db for thread Thread-6
Count is now: 448
loading tracks...
done loading tracks...
loading songs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/xl/panels/collection.py", line 545, in load_tree
    songs = self.search_tracks(self.keyword, self.all)
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/xl/panels/collection.py", line 561, in search_tracks
    self.keyword, None, self.where)
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/xl/library.py", line 232, in search_tracks
    for row in cur.fetchall():
sqlite3.OperationalError: Could not decode to UTF-8 column 'name' with text '/home/username/documents/music/Rammstein/Rosenrot/07 Zerst�en.mp3'
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 select ( /usr/lib/exaile/xl/db.py @ 178):
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/xl/db.py", line 191, in select
    row = cur.fetchone()
OperationalError: Could not decode to UTF-8 column 'name' with text '/home/username/documents/music/Rammstein/Rosenrot/07 Zerst�en.mp3'

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 load_tracks ( /usr/lib/exaile/xl/library.py @ 262):
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/exaile/xl/library.py", line 321, in load_tracks
    row = cur.fetchone()
OperationalError: Could not decode to UTF-8 column 'name' with text '/home/username/documents/music/Rammstein/Rosenrot/07 Zerst�en.mp3'

Clearing tracks cache