Changed findArtist to use the musicbrainzngs library, the output is identical.

(old musicbrainz 2 library is deprecated and broken)

lib/musicbrainzngs/util.py

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+# This file is part of the musicbrainzngs library
+# Copyright (C) Alastair Porter, Adrian Sampson, and others
+# This file is distributed under a BSD-2-Clause type license.
+# See the COPYING file for more information.
+
+import sys
+import locale
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+
+from . import compat
+
+def _unicode(string, encoding=None):
+    """Try to decode byte strings to unicode.
+    This can only be a guess, but this might be better than failing.
+    It is safe to use this on numbers or strings that are already unicode.
+    """
+    if isinstance(string, compat.unicode):
+        unicode_string = string
+    elif isinstance(string, compat.bytes):
+        # use given encoding, stdin, preferred until something != None is found
+        if encoding is None:
+            encoding = sys.stdin.encoding
+        if encoding is None:
+            encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+        unicode_string = string.decode(encoding, "ignore")
+    else:
+        unicode_string = compat.unicode(string)
+    return unicode_string.replace('\x00', '').strip()
+
+def bytes_to_elementtree(_bytes):
+    if compat.is_py3:
+        s = _unicode(_bytes.read(), "utf-8")
+    else:
+        s = _bytes.read()
+    f = compat.StringIO(s)
+    tree = ET.ElementTree(file=f)
+    return tree