>>> from mutagen.easyid3 import EasyID3 >>> audio = EasyID3("C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\My Music\09 The End Complete I_ The Fall of H.mp3") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in audio = EasyID3("C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents\My Music\09 The End Complete I_ The Fall of H.mp3") File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\mutagen\easyid3.py", line 56, in __init__ self.load(filename) File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\mutagen\id3.py", line 109, in load self.__fileobj = file(filename, 'rb') TypeError: file() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL bytes), not str