It's not really that 'the file contains' but rather 'the file name contains'. The same issue goes for the convert-ly utility.
A patch by Jan Nieuwenhuizen is now available, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2011-03/msg00322.html It has been tested and It will be applied upstream very soon -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/714213 Title: midi2ly crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in convert_midi() -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs