abcde is retrieving from CDDB some (all?) album descriptions in Latin1 when locale is es_ES.utf8, which means filenames get stored with incorrect (and unmanageable) characters and eyeD3 fails on files with non ascii characters. If charset is different from locale it should be converted.
retitle 883385 abcde: retrieves CD-TEXT in latin and eyeD3 fails thanks It seems the data was coming from CD-TEXT, not from CDDB.