From 9029a8a6b39cc5ad6746cd8840ddaefe9bffd020 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alicezou <alicezou@umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:05:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] check bytes

---
 beets/dbcore/db.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/beets/dbcore/db.py b/beets/dbcore/db.py
index 243308c0d..397dbcedf 100755
--- a/beets/dbcore/db.py
+++ b/beets/dbcore/db.py
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ class Database:
 
     # Check whether parental directories exist.
     def _path_checker(self, path):
-        if path == ":memory:":  # For testing
+        if not isinstance(path, bytes) and path == ':memory:':  # in memory db
             return
         newpath = os.path.dirname(path)
         if not os.path.isdir(newpath):