beets absubmit: TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

[gorgobacka]

Problem

Running beets absubmit produced the following error.

Running this command in verbose (-vv) mode:

$ beet -vv absubmit
user configuration: /home/noname/.config/beets/config.yaml
data directory: /home/noname/.config/beets
plugin paths: 
Sending event: pluginload
inline: adding item field multidisc
inline: adding item field bool_mp3
inline: adding item field custom_catalog
library database: /home/xxxxxxx/imported/musiclibrary.blb
library directory: /home/xxxxxxx/imported
Sending event: library_opened
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/beet", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('beets==1.4.7', 'console_scripts', 'beet')()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 1256, in main
    _raw_main(args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 1243, in _raw_main
    subcommand.func(lib, suboptions, subargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/beetsplug/absubmit.py", line 108, in command
    analysis = self._get_analysis(item)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/beetsplug/absubmit.py", line 137, in _get_analysis
    analysis = json.load(tmp_file)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 268, in load
    parse_constant=parse_constant, object_pairs_hook=object_pairs_hook, **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads
    s.__class__.__name__))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

Setup

• OS: Linux Mint
• Python version: 3.5.2
• beets version: 1.4.7
• Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): no

It's do to this PR: #2673.

This change works for me:

with open(filename, 'r') as tmp_file:

[sampsyo]

Hi! That looks bad—can you please open a pull request with that change so we can try it out?

[gorgobacka]

A newer version of Python fixed it.