Strange Japanese Home Folder Error

So I've had this plugin installed for the longest time and lately when I've tried to open up rhythmbox it's been slower than normal and I've had like 4 empty Japanese folders be created in my home folder. If I delete them and re-open, they get made and placed in my home folder again. As soon as I remove the cover-art-plugin and then launch rhythmbox, they do not appear again.

I was baffled by this, literally not being able to figure out how this issue could be caused so I re-installed the plugin and sure enough, it happened again. Is it possible I have some kind of virus causing this? Is it the plugin causing this issue? Or has something been altered in the ppa?

(P.S, I tried to translate them to post them here, so that I could see if they provided any clues. They don't, it appears to be complete gibrish, more so than normal when you google translate Japanese to English)

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[fossfreedom]

certainly nothing has changed in the PPA. Baffling!

Sounds like you have associated "nautilus" or whatever your file-manager is with something that is called 4 times by the plugin. I don't remember though what is called 4 times though.

Also, I have a firewall and it's caught nothing, so I'm doubting the possibility of it being a virus ;/
I'm using XFCE so it's Thunar. Ah well, If the plugin gets updated to work with 16.04, I'll try it again and post back here if it still occurs.

With my setup (Rhythmbox 3.3, GTK 3.18.9, and coverart-browser 2.1) This only seems to happen for me after the coverart-browser plugin causes Rhythmbox to segfault and crash, but only if Rhythmbox starts in the first place. If I call $ rhythmbox, about half the time the program will start, but then crash if I click on "Coverart" in the left menu. In this case, these weird folders get created. If the plugin causes Rhythmbox to segfault before it even starts, the folders don't get created.

This doesn't seem to happen with the gtk318 branch, but then again the plug-in itself doesn't do anything for me anyway when using that version (no crashing, but no cover art, either).

[bwroga]

I'm getting one of these folders created in my home directory every time I open up rhythmbox and have coverart-browser enabled.