From d461e7675ece2dcc82833561b49d07f2cbe9426d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Sampson <adrian@radbox.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:00:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] catch Mutagen exceptions when reading fields (#356)

---
 beets/mediafile.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/beets/mediafile.py b/beets/mediafile.py
index 15b9912af..47e682331 100644
--- a/beets/mediafile.py
+++ b/beets/mediafile.py
@@ -317,7 +317,13 @@ class MediaField(object):
         # possibly index the list
         if style.list_elem:
             if entry: # List must have at least one value.
-                return entry[0]
+                # Handle Mutagen bugs when reading values (#356).
+                try:
+                    return entry[0]
+                except:
+                    log.error('Mutagen exception when reading field: %s' %
+                              traceback.format_exc)
+                    return None
             else:
                 return None
         else: