# Error running from source

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/error-running-from-source/739>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/error-running-from-source/739 "2019-05-09T07:24:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![arogl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/arogl/32/455_2.png) [@arogl](https://discourse.beets.io/u/arogl)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/error-running-from-source/739/1 "2019-05-09T07:24:08Z")

</div>

```auto
beet -vv imp "my test"
user configuration: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets\config.yaml
data directory: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets
plugin paths: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets\beetsplug
Sending event: pluginload
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python36\Scripts\beet-script.py", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('beets==1.4.8', 'console_scripts', 'beet')()
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beets\ui\ __init__.py", line 1266, in main
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beets\ui\ __init__.py", line 1249, in _raw_main
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beets\ui\ __init__.py", line 1135, in _setup
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beets\ui\ __init__.py", line 1121, in _load_plugins
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beets\plugins.py", line 488, in send
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beets\plugins.py", line 471, in event_handlers
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beets\plugins.py", line 307, in find_plugins
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beetsplug\lastgenre\ __init__.py", line 116, in __init__
  File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beetsplug\lastgenre\ __init__.py", line 133, in setup
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'C:\\Python36\\lib\\site-packages\\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\\beetsplug\\lastgenre\\genres.txt'

$ beet -v imp "my test"
user configuration: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets\config.yaml
data directory: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets
plugin paths: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets\beetsplug
C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\ __init__.py:91: RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.25.2) or chardet (3.0.4) doesn't match a supported version!
  RequestsDependencyWarning)
Sending event: pluginload
configuration error: import.delete not found

$ beet imp "my test"
configuration error: verbose not found

```

I am running win10 latest version Python 3.6\_x64 I had beets working, ran a git pull then ran python -m setup.py install in the beets directory then stated getting the above errors.

I have deleted and re-cloned beets but get the same errors…

The missing file is in the “.egg” file.

Any other suggestions?

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**Author:** ![arcresu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/arcresu/32/222_2.png) [@arcresu](https://discourse.beets.io/u/arcresu)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/error-running-from-source/739/2 "2019-05-09T07:51:18Z")

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Sorry you didn’t get a response on gitter!

It’s possible that there’s some sort of path encoding issue affecting Windows that’s preventing the path to the genre.txt file from working as expected. Does that file actually exist if you navigate to the directory it’s trying to use (`C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.6.egg\beetsplug\lastgenre\genres.txt`)?

Those configuration errors also look suspicious. Could you share what’s in your config file? It also looks like you perhaps didn’t install beets’ dependencies properly, since that `RequestsDependencyWarning` seems to be saying you have some sort of dependency conflict.

---

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**Author:** ![arogl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/arogl/32/455_2.png) [@arogl](https://discourse.beets.io/u/arogl)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/error-running-from-source/739/3 "2019-05-09T08:49:49Z")

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I have uninstalled python, installed 3.7.3 then ran the setup form my git clone and get the same error minus the `RequestsDependencyWarning`

```auto
 beet ls -p added:2019-04
configuration error: verbose not found

arogl@MSI-GE62 H:\
$ beet -v ls -p added:2019-04
user configuration: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets\config.yaml
data directory: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets
plugin paths: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets\beetsplug
Sending event: pluginload
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python37\Scripts\beet-script.py", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('beets==1.4.8', 'console_scripts', 'beet')()
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\beets\ui\ __init__.py", line 1266, in main
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\beets\ui\ __init__.py", line 1249, in _raw_main
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\beets\ui\ __init__.py", line 1135, in _setup
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\beets\ui\ __init__.py", line 1121, in _load_plugins
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\beets\plugins.py", line 488, in send
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\beets\plugins.py", line 471, in event_handlers
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\beets\plugins.py", line 307, in find_plugins
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\beetsplug\lastgenre\ __init__.py", line 116, in __init__
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\beetsplug\lastgenre\ __init__.py", line 133, in setup
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: b'C:\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg\\beetsplug\\lastgenre\\genres.txt'

arogl@MSI-GE62 H:\
$ beet -vv ls -p added:2019-04
user configuration: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets\config.yaml
data directory: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets
plugin paths: C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets\beetsplug
Sending event: pluginload
configuration error: import.delete not found

```

the .egg fille is a .zip file that I can read and tests ok.

```auto
7z l C:\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg

7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 496465 bytes (485 KiB)

Listing archive: C:\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg

--
Path = C:\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg
Type = zip
Physical Size = 496465

   Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
2019-05-09 17:41:12 ..... 6720 2161 EGG-INFO\PKG-INFO
2019-05-09 17:41:12 ..... 7981 1892 EGG-INFO\SOURCES.txt
2019-05-09 17:41:12 ..... 1 3 EGG-INFO\dependency_links.txt
2019-05-09 17:41:12 ..... 40 39 EGG-INFO\entry_points.txt
2019-05-09 17:41:12 ..... 613 332 EGG-INFO\requires.txt
2019-05-09 17:41:12 ..... 16 15 EGG-INFO\top_level.txt
2019-05-09 17:41:14 ..... 2 4 EGG-INFO\zip-safe
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1467 727 beets\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 940 520 beets\ __main__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 8034 2539 beets\art.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3056 1232 beets\config_default.yaml
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 62422 16080 beets\importer.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 57169 14849 beets\library.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4477 1759 beets\logging.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 73581 17102 beets\mediafile.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 19489 5529 beets\plugins.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3880 1585 beets\random.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1892 901 beets\vfs.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 6958 1988 beets\autotag\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 23337 6587 beets\autotag\hooks.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 20180 5827 beets\autotag\match.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 18903 5374 beets\autotag\mb.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1158 589 beets\dbcore\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 36773 10030 beets\dbcore\db.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 30311 7848 beets\dbcore\query.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 10028 3415 beets\dbcore\queryparse.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 6633 2338 beets\dbcore\types.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 44807 13478 beets\ui\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 63637 16544 beets\ui\commands.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4616 1755 beets\ui\completion_base.sh
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 35783 11179 beets\util\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 9549 3210 beets\util\artresizer.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 20471 5419 beets\util\bluelet.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 52724 13510 beets\util\confit.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1502 574 beets\util\enumeration.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 21919 5947 beets\util\functemplate.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 2910 1148 beets\util\hidden.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 17146 4747 beets\util\pipeline.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 913 491 beetsplug\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 6233 2234 beetsplug\absubmit.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 12188 3542 beetsplug\acousticbrainz.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 5950 2034 beetsplug\badfiles.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 18869 5159 beetsplug\beatport.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4309 1445 beetsplug\bench.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 2878 1198 beetsplug\bpm.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 8424 2714 beetsplug\bucket.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 12325 3878 beetsplug\chroma.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 19747 5423 beetsplug\convert.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1955 857 beetsplug\cue.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 25420 7313 beetsplug\discogs.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 13571 3588 beetsplug\duplicates.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 14654 4707 beetsplug\edit.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 7689 2259 beetsplug\embedart.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 6208 1959 beetsplug\embyupdate.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4868 1729 beetsplug\export.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 38427 10332 beetsplug\fetchart.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3111 1109 beetsplug\filefilter.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1505 729 beetsplug\freedesktop.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 5539 2100 beetsplug\fromfilename.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 6341 2183 beetsplug\ftintitle.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1619 769 beetsplug\fuzzy.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 5259 1743 beetsplug\gmusic.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4162 1472 beetsplug\hook.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3096 1207 beetsplug\ihate.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 5854 1517 beetsplug\importadded.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4636 1643 beetsplug\importfeeds.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 7760 2593 beetsplug\info.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4469 1599 beetsplug\inline.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 10652 2808 beetsplug\ipfs.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3065 1219 beetsplug\keyfinder.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3259 1352 beetsplug\kodiupdate.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 8864 2916 beetsplug\lastimport.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1652 780 beetsplug\loadext.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 32637 10079 beetsplug\lyrics.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 6469 2065 beetsplug\mbcollection.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 2279 1008 beetsplug\mbsubmit.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 8100 2313 beetsplug\mbsync.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 8350 2552 beetsplug\missing.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 11993 3626 beetsplug\mpdstats.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4401 1645 beetsplug\mpdupdate.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4242 1364 beetsplug\permissions.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 8036 2592 beetsplug\play.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 6835 2003 beetsplug\playlist.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3027 1121 beetsplug\plexupdate.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 2115 925 beetsplug\random.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 40788 9887 beetsplug\replaygain.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 2935 1186 beetsplug\rewrite.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 5536 1984 beetsplug\scrub.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 8431 2537 beetsplug\smartplaylist.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1763 814 beetsplug\sonosupdate.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 22935 5826 beetsplug\spotify.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3187 1380 beetsplug\subsonicupdate.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3360 1258 beetsplug\the.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 10731 3424 beetsplug\thumbnails.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 1783 745 beetsplug\types.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 5984 2069 beetsplug\zero.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 58661 14709 beetsplug\bpd\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 10283 3517 beetsplug\bpd\gstplayer.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 17348 4989 beetsplug\lastgenre\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 15952 4320 beetsplug\lastgenre\genres-tree.yaml
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 18697 7454 beetsplug\lastgenre\genres.txt
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4578 1692 beetsplug\metasync\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4229 1477 beetsplug\metasync\amarok.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 4720 1820 beetsplug\metasync\itunes.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 13379 4160 beetsplug\web\ __init__.py
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 43749 12065 beetsplug\web\static\backbone.js
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3111 908 beetsplug\web\static\beets.css
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 9172 2527 beetsplug\web\static\beets.js
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 257501 73172 beetsplug\web\static\jquery.js
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 35475 9689 beetsplug\web\static\underscore.js
2019-05-05 16:54:14 ..... 3404 876 beetsplug\web\templates\index.html
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------------------
2019-05-09 17:41:14 1672772 483155 111 files

arogl@MSI-GE62 H:\
$ 7z t C:\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg

7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 496465 bytes (485 KiB)

Testing archive: C:\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg
--
Path = C:\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\beets-1.4.8-py3.7.egg
Type = zip
Physical Size = 496465

Everything is Ok

Files: 111
Size: 1672772
Compressed: 496465

```

Config file"

```auto
directory: \\?\I:\Music
import:
    copy: no
    move: yes
    write: yes
    resume: ask
    quiet_fallback: skip
    timid: no
    log: H:\new_Music\beetslog.txt
    languages: en

ignore: .AppleDouble ._* *~ .DS_Store *.sfv *.srr *.nfo *.m3u *.ini *.log *.nfo

art_filename: cover

pluginpath:
    C:\Users\arogl\AppData\Roaming\beets\beetsplug

plugins: chroma discogs lastgenre acousticbrainz mbsync fetchart embedart replaygain duplicates missing info scrub zero fromfilename ftintitle importadded lyrics badfiles absubmit artistcountry arttools bandcamp beatport
# convert follow wlg check beatport bandcamp copyartifacts #### dates moveall gracenote barcode

replace:
    '[\\/]': ''
    '[\x00-\x1f]': ''
    '[<>:\"\?\*\|]': ''
    "\u2010": '-'
    "\u2011": '-'
    "\u2012": '-'
    "\u2013": '-'
    "\u2014": '-'
    "\u2015": '-'
    "\u2016": "'"
    "\u2018": "'"
    "\u2019": "'"
    "\u201A": ','
    "\u201B": "'"
    "\u201C": "'"
    "\u201D": "'"
    "\u201E": "'"
    "\u201F": "'"
    "\u2026": '...'
    '^\.\.\.': ''
    '^\.\.': ''
    '^\.': ''
    '\.\.\.$': ''
    '\.\.$': ''
    '\.$': ''
    '\s+$': ''
    '^\s+': ''
    '^-': ''
    "`": "'"
    "Florence And The Machine": "Florence + The Machine"
    "Marina & The Diamonds": "MARINA"
    "Marina and The Diamonds": "MARINA"

threaded: yes
#threaded: no
va_name: "Various Artists"
id3v23: no

time_format: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
format_raw_length: no

sort_album: albumartist+ album+
sort_item: artist+ album+ disc+ track+
sort_case_insensitive: yes

# max_filename_length: 80

ui:
    color: yes
    colors:
        text_success: green
        text_warning: yellow
        text_error: red
        text_highlight: red
        text_highlight_minor: lightgray
        action_default: turquoise
        action: yellow

format_item: "\u001b[92m$artist\u001b[39m - \u001b[31m$album\u001b[39m - \u001b[93m$title\u001b[39m"
format_album: "\u001b[92m$albumartist\u001b[39m - \u001b[31m$album\u001b[39m"

paths:
    default: %upper{%left{$albumartist,1}}/$albumartist/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
    singleton: Singles/$artist - $title
    albumartist:\“Weird Al\” Yankovic: W/Weird Al Yankovic/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
    albumtype:soundtrack: Soundtracks/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
    albumartist:various\ artists: Various Artists/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
    albumartist:various: Various Artists/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
    comp: Various Artists/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
    genre:8-Bit: 8-Bit/$albumartist/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
    genre:chiptune: 8-Bit/$albumartist/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
    genre:idm: 8-Bit/$albumartist/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
    ext:pdf: %upper{%left{$albumartist,1}}/$albumartist/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - 00 - $artist - $title

zero:
    fields: comments
    comments: [EAC, LAME, from.+collection, 'ripped by', ExactAudioCopy, 'Exact Audio Copy', 'www.tr7music.me', 'WWW.ITUNESCLUB.COM', 'itunesvn.com', 'http://mzmusiczone.blogspot.com/']
    update_database: true

scrub:
    auto: yes

replaygain:
    overwrite: no
    auto: yes
    backend: bs1770gain
# backend: gstreamer
# command: c:\agrbin\aacgain.exe

embedart:
    auto: yes

fetchart:
    auto: yes
    cautious: yes
    cover_names: cover front art album folder
    google_search: yes
    minwidth: 0
    enforce_ratio: no
    sources: filesystem coverart itunes albumart amazon fanarttv wikipedia google
    fanarttv_key: **redacted**
    google_API_key: **redacted**
    google_engine_ID: **redacted**

acoustid:
    apikey: **redacted**

#convert:
# ffmpeg: c:\agrbin\bin\ffmpeg.exe
# embed: true
# format: mp3
# max_bitrate: 192
# dest: %upper{%left{$albumartist,1}}/$artist/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title
# threads: 4
# paths:
# default: %upper{%left{$artist,1}}/$albumartist/($year) $album%aunique{}/$album - $track - $artist - $title

copyartifacts:
    extensions: .pdf
    print_ignored: yes

check:
  import: yes
  write-check: yes
  write-update: yes
  convert-update: yes
  threads: 8
  tools:
    mp3val:
      cmd: 'mp3val {}'
      formats: MP3
      error: '^WARNING: .* \(offset 0x[0-9a-f]+\): (.*)$'
      fix: 'mp3val -f -nb {}'
    flac:
      cmd: 'flac --test {}'
      formats: flac

duplicates:
    album: no
    checksum: ffmpeg -i {file} -f crc -
    copy: none
    count: no
    delete: no
    format: $album - $track - $artist - $title
    full: no
    strict: no
    keys: [mb_trackid, mb_albumid]
    move: none
    path: no
# tag: no

match:
    ignore_video_tracks: no
    distance_weights:
        barcode: 1.0
importadded:
    preserve_mtimes: yes

lyrics:
  fallback: ''
  sources: musixmatch lyrics.com lyricwiki google
  google_API_key: **redacted**
  google_engine_ID: **redacted**

ftintitle:
  auto: yes
  drop: no
  format: feat. {0}

#follow:
# email: **redacted**
# password: **redacted**
# userid: **redacted**
# auto: yes

wlg:
    auto: yes
    force: no
    count: 4
    separator: ', '
    whitelist: beets

bandcamp:
    art: true
    lyrics: true

badfiles:
  commands:
    flac: flac --test --warnings-as-errors --silent

acousticbrainz:
  auto: yes

lastgenre:
  auto: yes
  count: 3
  canonical: yes

musicbrainz:
    host: musicbrainz.org
    ratelimit: 1
    ratelimit_interval: 1.0
    searchlimit: 5

absubmit:
    auto: yes
    extractor: D:\win_prog\acousticbrainz-gui\streaming_extractor_music.exe

dates:
    prefix: '='

```

I tried disabling all plugins with the same error output.

OK about gitter.

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Trying to debug, once in ui\__init_\_.py it jumps straight to line 1282 sys.exit(1)

```auto
except confit.ConfigError as exc:
        log.error(u'configuration error: {0}', exc)
        sys.exit(1)

```

Even “beet help” gives the same errors.

Uninstalled beets and tested the following:

```auto
pip install beets - works
pip install https://github.com/beetbox/beets/tarball/master - works
pip install -e git+https://github.com/beetbox/beets#egg=beets - works
python setup.py install - fails from a git clone or from the same directory as "pip install -e git+https://github.com/beetbox/beets#egg=beets"

```

pip is up to date, installed packages

```auto
$ pip freeze
audioread==2.1.6
beautifulsoup4==4.7.1
beets==1.4.8
bs4==0.0.1
certifi==2019.3.9
cffi==1.12.3
chardet==3.0.4
Chroma==0.2.0
colorama==0.4.1
colorlog==4.0.2
confuse==0.5.0
discogs-client==2.2.2
fancycompleter==0.8
idna==2.8
isodate==0.6.0
jellyfish==0.7.1
munkres==1.1.2
musicbrainzngs==0.6
mutagen==1.42.0
oauthlib==3.0.1
packaging==19.0
pdbpp==0.10.0
Pillow==6.0.0
pip-review==1.0
pyacoustid==1.1.5
pycparser==2.19
Pygments==2.4.0
pylast==3.1.0
pyparsing==2.4.0
pyreadline==2.1
pyyaml==5.1
requests==2.21.0
requests-oauthlib==1.2.0
six==1.12.0
soupsieve==1.9.1
unidecode==1.0.23
urllib3==1.24.3
winpdb-reborn==2.0.0.dev5
wmctrl==0.3
wxPython==4.0.4
youtube-dl==2019.4.30

```

Anything else I can try?

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Hi! I’m not exactly sure what happened, but it really looks like your beets installation is incomplete. I would try to delete it all and reinstall. It may also be the case that you have multiple installations of beets on your system in various states of completeness—if you can, try to manually delete all those beets directories from your `site-packages`, etc., to make sure everything’s gone. Then use `pip install -e` as you did before.

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/error-running-from-source/739/6 "2019-05-09T22:06:37Z")

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All installs from source work, except if I run the setup from the git directory, whether that be from a manual git clone or using the pip -e git command.

In my testsing I did a pip uninstall and then manaually deleted any other files.

The following command always fails with the current source.

```auto
python setup.py install 

```

I am not sure what is run differently between a

```auto
pip install -e git+https://github.com/beetbox/beets#egg=beets

```

and

```auto
python setup.py install

```

Looking through the output from either install, no errors show up.

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Something still looks a bit suspicious with your Python modules. From your original post:

> [@arogl](#):
>
> C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\requests\__init_\_.py:91: RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.25.2) or chardet (3.0.4) doesn’t match a supported version!

but from your `pip freeze` output:

> [@](#):
>
> ```auto
> chardet==3.0.4
> ...
> urllib3==1.24.3
> 
> ```

The `requests` version you’re picking up has a dependency on `'urllib3>=1.21.1,<1.25'` and it’s warning that it isn’t satisfied at runtime since the `urllib3` version you have is too new (1.25.2 \>= 1.25). The version _isn’t_ too new in your `pip freeze` output though (1.24.3 \< 1.25), so that means that at runtime it must be picking up a different package from somewhere.

Somehow when you run `pip` you’re not running in the same Python environment (some combination of `PYTHONPATH`, interpreter version and/or `site.py`) as when you’re running beets.

To investigate it you’ll have to be really careful about which environments you’re running in. For example instead of executing beets directly (which would be picking up an interpreter from the `#!` line) you could try `python ./beet` to make sure you’re getting the interpreter currently setup in your shell. If that works it could give you a hint about what’s wrong. It’s unlikely we’ll be able to help much more however since this looks like a problem on your system rather than something wrong with beets itself.

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I am now runnnig python 3.7.3 so that warning has been removed.

I have 2 python environements 2.7 and 3.7.  
Beets is definitely installed in 3.7.

As I said the error seems to be from manually running the setup.py install

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I’ve had a play around with this myself and I think I understand what’s happening. Beets includes a few data files or “resources” (in particular `beets/config_default.yaml` and `beetsplug/lastgenre/genres.txt`) that it normally accesses by assuming that the files are installed alongside the python module with lines like these:

```python
WHITELIST = os.path.join(os.path.dirname( __file__ ), 'genres.txt')
C14N_TREE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname( __file__ ), 'genres-tree.yaml')
DEFAULT_FILENAME = 'config_default.yaml'
filename = os.path.join(self._package_path, DEFAULT_FILENAME)
open(filename).read()

```

The problem is that you’re installing beets as an egg (which isn’t how we normally [recommend](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/wiki/Hacking#getting-the-source)), and in that scenario the whole beets module and all its data files remain packed in a zipfile, so the above logic fails. The `ConfigError`s are because beets isn’t able to read the `default_config.yaml` file so confit doesn’t have default values for anything.

If we want to support running beets as an egg then we need to [change how we access package resources](http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs#accessing-package-resources) to look more like:

```python
from pkg_resources import resource_string
foo_config = resource_string( __name__ , 'foo.conf')

```

Would you mind [opening a bug](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/new/choose) for this?

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Any reason why

```auto
python setup.py install

```

would now swap to an egg file, rather than a directory?

Happy to change to a pip install -e install

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I’ve opened [an issue](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/3264) to look into this. For now since it seems that beets doesn’t work properly when installed as an egg, I would just stick to `pip install -e`.

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**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 7:52am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/error-running-from-source/739/12 "2019-05-11T07:52:58Z")

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Thanks. I’ll follow the issue, trying to work through what changed the install from directory to egg file.