From 8dcee29952e69e1e484066471d4a8f6c473d0683 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manuel Cortez <manuel@manuelcortez.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 20:04:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed an issue when playing a song in Python 2

---
 src/controller/player.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/controller/player.py b/src/controller/player.py
index ea5fed6..151771c 100644
--- a/src/controller/player.py
+++ b/src/controller/player.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
+import sys
 import random
 import output
 import sound_lib
@@ -43,8 +44,13 @@ class audioPlayer(object):
 		# Make sure that  there are no other sounds trying to be played.
 		if self.is_working == False:
 			self.is_working = True
+			# Let's encode the URL as bytes if on Python 3
+			if sys.version[0] == "3":
+				url_ = bytes(url["url"], "utf-8")
+			else:
+				url_ = url["url"]
 			try:
-				self.stream = URLStream(url=bytes(url["url"], "utf-8"))
+				self.stream = URLStream(url=url_)
 			except BassError:
 				log.debug("Error when playing the file %r") % (url,)
 				return