Soundcloud API - Why are stream_urls for a particular artist not working anymore (404)

Question

my site streams Soundcloud tracks from various bands using SoundManager2 with the Soundcloud stream_url and added secret_token and client_id. All bands seem to be working except one, and I can't see anything in the API responses that show any difference.

Here is the specific set that has been working for weeks, but started returning a 404 today: https://soundcloud.com/mona-official/sets/torches-pitchforks

The band says they haven't changed anything with their settings, Apps and Widgets are enabled, AND streamable is true for all the tracks in the API - the songs seems to be public anyway and play fine on soundcloud.com. The band's access token still seems to be valid as well.

Thanks! Rick

Answer 1

Here is one ugly workaround if your app can check 404 on stream:

Calling

https://api.soundcloud.com/i1/tracks/<track_id>/streams?client_id=<cid>

will respond in unconditional JSON response (that is you can't get XML) with RTMP stream, that will be valid for couple of minutes or so:

{"rtmp_mp3_128_url":"rtmp://ec-rtmp-media.soundcloud.com:80/mp3:VeAGXsGTFb59.128?9527d18f1063a01f059bf10590159adb10dea0996b8c0cdb6748962c2c1b859ce6b56ee301b0b087e0695d03f6e9498fd963ef1328bc89c05e156bacca00317de55e78139e168138ead65c8fdac11f8d626674293d53f230cf5a"}