diff --git a/TIDALDL-PY/tidal_dl/tidal.py b/TIDALDL-PY/tidal_dl/tidal.py
index 4c05d85..b12e63b 100644
--- a/TIDALDL-PY/tidal_dl/tidal.py
+++ b/TIDALDL-PY/tidal_dl/tidal.py
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ class TidalAPI(object):
 
     def __getResolutionList__(self, url):
         ret = []
-        txt = requests.get(url).text
+        txt = requests.get(url).content.decode('utf-8')
         # array = txt.split("#EXT-X-STREAM-INF")
         array = txt.split("#")
         for item in array: