[Soundcloud] 401 Unauthorized

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⮀ youtube-dl --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail --verbose https://soundcloud.com/mr119830/yellow-claw-mixtape-3
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--add-metadata', u'--embed-thumbnail', u'--verbose', u'https://soundcloud.com/mr119830/yellow-claw-mixtape-3']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.1, ffprobe 3.1.1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] mr119830/yellow-claw-mixtape-3: Resolving id
[soundcloud] mr119830/yellow-claw-mixtape-3: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 496, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2093, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Downloads from soundcloud resulting in 401.

[Hrxn]

Duplicate of #12376

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Fixed in git master, will work with new released version.