From 2836877c35295b711a6e2e55ecf2abecb19b0287 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johnny Robeson <johnny@localmomentum.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 01:06:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] use as_string to get mediafile properties as str

---
 beets/mediafile.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/beets/mediafile.py b/beets/mediafile.py
index e80cd65d9..556b41bb8 100644
--- a/beets/mediafile.py
+++ b/beets/mediafile.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ import traceback
 import enum
 
 from beets import logging
-from beets.util import displayable_path, syspath
+from beets.util import displayable_path, syspath, as_string
 
 
 __all__ = ['UnreadableFileError', 'FileTypeError', 'MediaFile']
@@ -1470,7 +1470,7 @@ class MediaFile(object):
         """
         for property, descriptor in cls.__dict__.items():
             if isinstance(descriptor, MediaField):
-                yield property.decode('utf8')
+                yield as_string(property)
 
     @classmethod
     def _field_sort_name(cls, name):