drive analyze raised TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found

[FredGandt]

• Installed via cmd apt install whipper on Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
• Inserted disc 1 of legit release of Goldie's Timeless into my ATAPI - iHAS124 drive
  • Only optical drive
  • Known to work well with other rippers incl. EAC, Sound Juicer and Asunder
• Entered cmd whipper drive analyze
  • Witnessed drive being driven
  • Message in CLI: Analyzing drive caching behaviour 0 %
• Error message appeared in CLI:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/whipper/common/task.py", line 89, in _read
    self._done()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/whipper/common/task.py", line 107, in _done
    self.failed()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/whipper/program/cdparanoia.py", line 606, in failed
    output = "".join(self._output)
TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found

• Drive span down gradually

Tried again; this series of events happened twice before preparing to submit this issue as follows:

• Entered WHIPPER_DEBUG=DEBUG WHIPPER_LOGFILE=whipper.log whipper drive analyze
• Entered gzip whipper.log
• See attached: whipper.log.gz

While writing this report, ran whipper drive analyze again to check if the percentage in Analyzing drive caching behaviour 0 % ever changed (I don't think so), but to my surprise, this last time got the following messages in the CLI:

INFO:whipper.command.drive:cdparanoia can defeat the audio cache on this drive
INFO:whipper.command.drive:adding drive cache behaviour to configuration file

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