diff -urp eyeD3-0.6.17.OLD/src/eyeD3/frames.py eyeD3-0.6.17/src/eyeD3/frames.py
--- eyeD3-0.6.17.OLD/src/eyeD3/frames.py	2009-02-01 21:54:52.000000000 -0600
+++ eyeD3-0.6.17/src/eyeD3/frames.py	2011-08-06 12:10:48.714663188 -0500
@@ -2152,7 +2152,10 @@ class FrameSet(list):
 
 def splitUnicode(data, encoding):
     if encoding == LATIN1_ENCODING or encoding == UTF_8_ENCODING:
-        return data.split("\x00", 1);
+        ret = data.split("\x00", 1);
+        if len(ret) != 2:
+            ret.append("")
+        return ret
     elif encoding == UTF_16_ENCODING or encoding == UTF_16BE_ENCODING:
         # Two null bytes split, but since each utf16 char is also two 
         # bytes we need to ensure we found a proper boundary.