utf file encoding - certain songs fail to write to playlist because ascii encoder

[x106x]

Updated Flask_server.py - line 81 is updated

import os
import re
import urllib

from flask import Flask, request, jsonify

from mutagen.mp4 import MP4, MP4Cover

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Config

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Modify These lines to change where the songs are saved

base_path = os.sep.join(( os.path.expanduser("~"), 'Music', 'Pandora' ))

Possible Variables - Mix and match as desired

{station} {artist} {album} {title}

save_template = os.sep.join((
"{station}",
"{artist}",
"{album} - {title}.m4a"
# "{title}.m4a"
)).encode('utf-8')

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app = Flask( "Pandora Downloader Server" )

@app.route( '/download', methods=['POST'] )
def pandoraDownloader():

playlist_path = os.sep.join((
    base_path,
    re.sub(u'[<>\*:\\/\"|?]', '', request.form['station'].encode('utf-8') ) + ".m3u"
))

# Build the song's path - remove any invalid characters
relative_song_path = save_template.format(
    station = re.sub(u'[<>\*:\\/\"|?]', '', request.form['station'].encode('utf-8') ),
    artist  = re.sub(u'[<>\*:\\/\"|?]', '', request.form['artist' ].encode('utf-8') ),
    album   = re.sub(u'[<>\*:\\/\"|?]', '', request.form['album'  ].encode('utf-8') ),
    title   = re.sub(u'[<>\*:\\/\"|?]', '', request.form['title'  ].encode('utf-8') )
).decode('utf-8')

song_path = os.sep.join(( base_path, relative_song_path ))

# check to see if the file has been downloaded before!
if os.path.exists( song_path ):
    print( 'Song found already' )
    return jsonify( status = 'alreadyDownloaded' )

else:

    print( 'Downloading "' + request.form['title'].encode('utf-8') + '"' )

    # Create the directories if they don't exist
    if not os.path.isdir( os.path.split(song_path)[0] ): os.makedirs( os.path.split(song_path)[0] )

    # Download the song
    urllib.urlretrieve( request.form['url'], song_path )

    # Open the song with mutagen so we can tag it and put the album art in it
    song = MP4( song_path )

    # Set the tags
    song['\xa9nam'] = [ request.form['title'].encode('utf-8')  ]
    song['\xa9ART'] = [ request.form['artist'].encode('utf-8') ]
    song['\xa9alb'] = [ request.form['album'].encode('utf-8')  ]

    # Download the album art and put it in the file
    albumArtRequest = urllib.urlopen( request.form['albumArt'] )
    albumArt = MP4Cover( albumArtRequest.read() )
    albumArtRequest.close()

    song['covr'] = [ albumArt ]

    song.save()

    # Append the song in the playlist
    with open( playlist_path, 'a+' ) as playlist:
        playlist.write(( relative_song_path + "\n" ).encode("utf-8"))
    
    print( 'Download Complete!' )
    return jsonify( status = 'success' )

if name == 'main':
app.run(debug=True)

[Derrik Milligan]

Thanks for finding this. Fixed in 62654dd