error when playing files with certain characters

[jimmy-taylor-1]

When I try to play files that have Japanese characters in the file name I get the error

line 235, in __bind
    raise MiniaudioError(MA_RESULT_STR[ma_res])
just_playback.ma_result.MiniaudioError: MA_DOES_NOT_EXIST

the same might happen with other characters as well but I haven't tested it

[cheofusi]

Hi @jimmy-taylor-1,

Could you try installing v0.1.8 ? Let me know if it solves your problem.

[jimmy-taylor-1]

Unfortunately this seems to have made the problem worse, now i get this error for every file I try to play

line 55, in load_file
    self.__bind(lib.load_file_w(self.__ma_attrs, path_to_file.encode('utf-16le')))
TypeError: initializer for ctype 'wchar_t *' must be a cdata pointer, not bytes

[Hanzyusuf]

Unfortunately this seems to have made the problem worse, now i get this error for every file I try to play

line 55, in load_file
    self.__bind(lib.load_file_w(self.__ma_attrs, path_to_file.encode('utf-16le')))
TypeError: initializer for ctype 'wchar_t *' must be a cdata pointer, not bytes

I was getting the same error, even when directly compiling from source. I got mine working by simply removing the encoding,

so from:

if platform.system() == 'Windows':
        self.__bind(lib.load_file(self.__ma_attrs, path_to_file.encode('utf-16le')))

to:

if platform.system() == 'Windows':
        self.__bind(lib.load_file(self.__ma_attrs, path_to_file))

Also, when compiling from source, there is a little bit difference in the code, but you can still remove the utf16le encoding part completely and it will solve the issue.

Note: this isn't the right solution and we should perform some type of validation before deciding and going on with the encoding, but works for now.

[cheofusi]

I've updated the wheels on PyPI. Uninstalling and then reinstalling v0.1.8 should fix this issue.