I keep forgetting that I shouldn't use the root logger :p

README.md

@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ As of 2/21/16, it works!
 * [watchdog](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog) - Cross-platform file system monitoring
 * [youtube-dl](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/) - Audio/Video downloader (supports many websites, not just YouTube)
 * [psutil](https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil) - Process/system utilities  (Used for detecting Steam path)
-* [requests](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/)
+* [requests](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/) - HTTP library used for downloading FFmpeg
+* [unidecode](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode) - Filter out pesky unicode characters that cause problems :(
 
 ## Python <3.3
 * [shutilwhich](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/shutilwhich) - Backport of shutil.which()

ffmpeg.py

@@ -180,8 +180,9 @@ def run(self):
                 try:
                     logger.info(convert_audio(track, file, self.rate, self.vol))
                 except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
-                    logging.exception("FFmpeg converter: Couldn't convert {track}".format(track=track))
-                    logging.critical("FFmpeg converter: Error output log\n" + e.output.decode('ascii', 'replace'))
+                    print(e)
+                    logger.exception("FFmpeg converter: Couldn't convert {track}".format(track=track))
+                    logger.critical("FFmpeg converter: Error output log\n" + e.output.decode('ascii', 'replace'))
                     errors.append(track)
                     # File's headers aren't stripped, which normally would increase self.converted by 1.
                     self.converted += 1

jam_tools.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 from string import whitespace, punctuation
 
 import psutil
+import unidecode
 import wx  # Tested w/ wxPhoenix 3.0.2
 from watchdog.observers import Observer
 from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
@@ -390,6 +391,7 @@ def get_tracks(audio_path):
     for track in glob.glob(os.path.join(audio_path, '*.wav')):
         bind = None
         name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(track))[0]  # Name of file minus path/extension
+        name = unidecode.unidecode(name)
         if name in track_data and ('aliases' in track_data[name] or 'bind' in track_data[name]):
             custom_aliases = track_data[name].get('aliases')
             custom_bind = track_data[name].get('bind')
@@ -419,7 +421,7 @@ def filter_aliases(alias_or_name):
             filtered_name += char.lower()
         elif char in punctuation and not "'":
             filtered_name += ' '
-    return filtered_name.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+    return filtered_name
 
 
 def get_steam_path():