diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index fa866ab7..13dce653 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Changelog
 
 0.41.2 (2018-02-04)
  - FIXED: '--setup' now works for CherryPy 12 and upwards  (thanks to TangoSierraAlfaVI)
+ - FIXED: UnicodeError when transcoding non-ASCII URLs
  - IMPROVEMENT: Added Bandcamp album cover fetching (thanks to its-wednesday)
 
 0.41.1 (2017-10-10)
diff --git a/cherrymusicserver/__init__.py b/cherrymusicserver/__init__.py
index 4dbc4713..74183279 100644
--- a/cherrymusicserver/__init__.py
+++ b/cherrymusicserver/__init__.py
@@ -466,10 +466,11 @@ def start_server(self, httphandler):
             basedirpath = codecs.encode(basedirpath, 'utf-8')
             scriptname = codecs.encode(config['server.rootpath'], 'utf-8')
         else:
-            # fix cherrypy unicode issue (only for Python3)
-            # see patch to cherrypy.lib.static.serve_file way above and
-            # https://bitbucket.org/cherrypy/cherrypy/issue/1148/wrong-encoding-for-urls-containing-utf-8
-            basedirpath = codecs.decode(codecs.encode(basedirpath, 'utf-8'), 'latin-1')
+            if needs_serve_file_utf8_fix:
+                # fix cherrypy unicode issue (only for Python3)
+                # see patch to cherrypy.lib.static.serve_file way above and
+                # https://bitbucket.org/cherrypy/cherrypy/issue/1148/wrong-encoding-for-urls-containing-utf-8
+                basedirpath = codecs.decode(codecs.encode(basedirpath, 'utf-8'), 'latin-1')
             scriptname = config['server.rootpath']
         cherrypy.tree.mount(
             httphandler, scriptname,
diff --git a/cherrymusicserver/httphandler.py b/cherrymusicserver/httphandler.py
index e9564e93..791e3d86 100644
--- a/cherrymusicserver/httphandler.py
+++ b/cherrymusicserver/httphandler.py
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ def trans(self, newformat, *path, **params):
             path = os.path.sep.join(path)
             if sys.version_info < (3, 0):       # workaround for #327 (cherrypy issue)
                 path = path.decode('utf-8')     # make it work with non-ascii
-            else:
+            elif cherry.needs_serve_file_utf8_fix:
                 path = codecs.decode(codecs.encode(path, 'latin1'), 'utf-8')
             fullpath = os.path.join(cherry.config['media.basedir'], path)
 
diff --git a/cherrymusicserver/test/test_httphandler.py b/cherrymusicserver/test/test_httphandler.py
index 4a2964ef..366d8e49 100644
--- a/cherrymusicserver/test/test_httphandler.py
+++ b/cherrymusicserver/test/test_httphandler.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # CherryMusic - a standalone music server
 # Copyright (c) 2012 - 2014 Tom Wallroth & Tilman Boerner
@@ -44,7 +45,6 @@
 from cherrymusicserver import service
 from cherrymusicserver.cherrymodel import CherryModel, MusicEntry
 
-from cherrymusicserver import log
 
 class MockAction(Exception):
     pass
@@ -321,19 +321,35 @@ def test_api_userchangepassword(self):
         session is used to authenticate the http request."""
         self.assertRaises(AttributeError, self.http.api, 'userchangepassword')
 
-    def test_trans(self):
-        import os
-        config = {'media.basedir': 'BASEDIR', 'media.transcode': True}
-        with mock_auth():
-            with patch('cherrymusicserver.httphandler.cherry.config', config):
-                with patch('cherrymusicserver.httphandler.cherrypy'):
-                    with patch('cherrymusicserver.httphandler.audiotranscode.AudioTranscode') as transcoder:
-                        transcoder.return_value = transcoder
-                        expectPath = os.path.join(config['media.basedir'], 'path')
 
-                        httphandler.HTTPHandler(config).trans('newformat', 'path', bitrate=111)
+def test_trans():
+    import sys
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+        test_paths = ['path', ('p\xc3\xb6th', u'pöth')]
+    else:
+        if cherry.needs_serve_file_utf8_fix:
+            test_paths = ['path',
+                          ('pöth'.encode('utf-8').decode('latin-1'), 'pöth')]
+        else:
+            test_paths = ['path', 'pöth']
+    for path in test_paths:
+        yield check_trans, path
+
+
+def check_trans(path):
+    import os
+    path, expectPath = (path, path) if isinstance(path, str) else path
+    config = {'media.basedir': 'BASEDIR', 'media.transcode': True}
+    with mock_auth():
+        with patch('cherrymusicserver.httphandler.cherry.config', config):
+            with patch('cherrymusicserver.httphandler.cherrypy'):
+                with patch('cherrymusicserver.httphandler.audiotranscode.AudioTranscode') as transcoder:
+                    transcoder.return_value = transcoder
+                    expectPath = os.path.join(config['media.basedir'], expectPath)
+
+                    httphandler.HTTPHandler(config).trans('newformat', path, bitrate=111)
 
-                        transcoder.transcode_stream.assert_called_with(expectPath, 'newformat', bitrate=111, starttime=0)
+                    transcoder.transcode_stream.assert_called_with(expectPath, 'newformat', bitrate=111, starttime=0)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":