Describe the problem. What did you expect? What do you see?

The game crashes after selectin a setlist of Guitar Hero or Rock Band Series

List the steps to recreate the problem.

1.Start the Game 2.Go to Career / Quick Play 3.Choose a Guitar Hero / Rock Band Set List and it Crashes...

What version are you using?

Version 4.0.0 Alpha 1 on Windows 7 x86_64 Bits Ultimate Edition

Please provide any additional information below.

Specific Error Message:

ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.

I'm using Fuzion's FoFiX 4x Alpha One Theme.

Source of the Theme: https://github.com/fuzion/4x/downloads

It looks like something is wrong with the song.ini of a song you have.

ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.