Try changing this conditionfix-most-types-in-util-init

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/beets/util/__init__.py b/beets/util/__init__.py
index 87fc7504e..0f3ab2f28 100644
--- a/beets/util/__init__.py
+++ b/beets/util/__init__.py
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ def syspath(path: AnyStr, prefix: bool = True) -> AnyStr:
     if os.path.__name__ != "ntpath":
         return path
 
-    if isinstance(path, bytes):
+    if not isinstance(path, str):
         # Beets currently represents Windows paths internally with UTF-8
         # arbitrarily. But earlier versions used MBCS because it is
         # reported as the FS encoding by Windows. Try both.