repair soundcloud integration

[adrienjoly]

I received this email from soundcloud, this morning:

Hello,We are reaching out today as you are the registered owner of a SoundCloud application that has been inactive for over 3 months. We’re writing to inform you that as of June 8, 2023, we are revoking access to your application in order to make necessary changes to our platform. As a result you will be unable to access SoundCloud’s API and any apps that use our APIs will no longer work.We understand that this may be disappointing; however, we need to do this for two reasons:Recently, we haven’t been able to provide developers with the level of support that you deserve. That includes being able to help you when things go wrong and supporting you when you build amazing things.More pressingly, we haven’t been able to sustain the level of oversight needed to make sure bad actors aren’t abusing our API. As such, change is necessary in order to protect the artists and fans that use SoundCloud’s services.Rest assured, this is not the final state of our API program - just a temporary reset. We’re working hard to reopen the doors as soon as possible so that you can use our API in the future.We’ll be releasing updates over the coming months, so please keep an eye on our Developer Blog and Twitter for updates to come.Amid these changes, we value your feedback. If you have notes or ideas for our developer platform, please feel free to leave comments on the form.

Hello,

We are reaching out today as you are the registered owner of a SoundCloud application that has been inactive for over 3 months. We’re writing to inform you that as of June 8, 2023, we are revoking access to your application in order to make necessary changes to our platform. As a result you will be unable to access SoundCloud’s API and any apps that use our APIs will no longer work.

We understand that this may be disappointing; however, we need to do this for two reasons:

• Recently, we haven’t been able to provide developers with the level of support that you deserve. That includes being able to help you when things go wrong and supporting you when you build amazing things.
• More pressingly, we haven’t been able to sustain the level of oversight needed to make sure bad actors aren’t abusing our API. As such, change is necessary in order to protect the artists and fans that use SoundCloud’s services.

Rest assured, this is not the final state of our API program - just a temporary reset. We’re working hard to reopen the doors as soon as possible so that you can use our API in the future.

We’ll be releasing updates over the coming months, so please keep an eye on our Developer Blog and Twitter for updates to come.

Amid these changes, we value your feedback. If you have notes or ideas for our developer platform, please feel free to leave comments on the form.
SOUNDCLOUD Hello,

We are reaching out today as you are the registered owner of a SoundCloud application that has been inactive for over 3 months. We’re writing to inform you that as of June 8, 2023, we are revoking access to your application in order to make necessary changes to our platform. As a result you will be unable to access SoundCloud’s API and any apps that use our APIs will no longer work.

We understand that this may be disappointing; however, we need to do this for two reasons:
Recently, we haven’t been able to provide developers with the level of support that you deserve. That includes being able to help you when things go wrong and supporting you when you build amazing things.
More pressingly, we haven’t been able to sustain the level of oversight needed to make sure bad actors aren’t abusing our API. As such, change is necessary in order to protect the artists and fans that use SoundCloud’s services.
Rest assured, this is not the final state of our API program - just a temporary reset. We’re working hard to reopen the doors as soon as possible so that you can use our API in the future.

We’ll be releasing updates over the coming months, so please keep an eye on our Developer Blog and Twitter for updates to come.

Amid these changes, we value your feedback. If you have notes or ideas for our developer platform, please feel free to leave comments on the form.

[adrienjoly]

The soundcloud developer account associated to the recipient email address only has 1 application:

client id: 94f7290349b7801c04969260c4433fed

not mentioned in the code base => it may belong to adrienjoly/playemjs#59

[adrienjoly]

Broken SoundCloud API may be the reason why we have many eId: "/sc/undefined" posts. Cf the following mongo query:

> db.post.find({eId:"/sc/undefined"}).sort({_id:-1}).limit(1)

{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d30757f358373aecb33d2"), "uId" : "648139e6d1b1033fa62c4294", "uNm" : "Zashit666", "text" : "", "name" : "Unleashing Vengeance - Epicus / explosive decompression", "eId" : "/sc/undefined", "ctx" : "bk", "src" : { "id" : "https://soundcloud.com/zamusic321", "name" : "Stream ZA Music music | Listen to songs, albums, playlists for free on SoundCloud" } }

[adrienjoly]

Situation:

• list of soundcloud tracks posted recently on openwhyd.org:

> db.post.find({eId:/^\/sc\//}).sort({_id:-1}).projection({eId:1})

{ "_id" : ObjectId("64f6fceceb5a936558ee1854"), "eId" : "/sc/metroverlaine/manchester#https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/219691983/stream" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("64eea712ba6d8bf8a2471b8b"), "eId" : "/sc/noraenpure/rufus-you-were-right-nora-en-pure-remix-1#https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220726941/stream" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d30757f358373aecb33d2"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d30647f358373aecb33d1"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d30517f358373aecb33d0"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d303f7f358373aecb33cf"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d30277f358373aecb33ce"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d30167f358373aecb33cd"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d30077f358373aecb33cc"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d2ff77f358373aecb33cb"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("648d2fe17f358373aecb33ca"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("6452e03ac1668f2ef7a6d024"), "eId" : "/sc/kygo/ed-sheeran-passenger-no#http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/106185859" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("645117a40767b76a40dbbd39"), "eId" : "/sc/nuclearblastrecords/epica-resign-to-surrender#https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/5169867" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("644479d7a3679c486da8766d"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("63fd8eb4f5702509ff421422"), "eId" : "/sc/behappy-13/cece-winans-i-promise-wedding-song#https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/208557646" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("63e9a9b5ff1f90134bda6530"), "eId" : "/sc/filabrazilliaofficial/july-23#https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301836164/stream" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("63d550d8c8596e1b8fe3debb"), "eId" : "/sc/yunizon-records/neptune-safari-morning-sun-2#https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141357506" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("63a346f57764811eed14e188"), "eId" : "/sc/nuderecordlabel/all-the-birds-no-bird-fx-masteredwav#https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/258637034/stream" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("639352d8c21d6309da72dce0"), "eId" : "/sc/malrow/michael-jackson-scream-malrow-remix#https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/147048504" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("6388f71dc21d6309da72dacf"), "eId" : "/sc/undefined" }

• several soundcloud tracks are invalid (cf occurrences of "eId" : "/sc/undefined", e.g. https://openwhyd.org/c/648d30757f358373aecb33d2) => they won't play, or even link to the original soundcloud page for that track 😓

• some soundcloud tracks were successfully posted on openwhyd, but they fail to play, e.g. https://openwhyd.org/c/64f6fceceb5a936558ee1854:

[adrienjoly]

Possible root causes for some of these issues: #433, #465.