[Soundcloud] Unable to download JSON metadata

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Downloading audio does not work; I just tried with the recent Git commit d0ba558:

$ ./youtube-dl -v https://soundcloud.com/vgo/vgo-vs-lotus-3-the-ultimate-challenge-title-remake
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://soundcloud.com/vgo/vgo-vs-lotus-3-the-ultimate-challenge-title-remake']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.24
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-4.4.0-66-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.20-6, avprobe 9.20-6, ffmpeg 3.2.4-static, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] vgo/vgo-vs-lotus-3-the-ultimate-challenge-title-remake: Resolving id
[soundcloud] vgo/vgo-vs-lotus-3-the-ultimate-challenge-title-remake: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '_ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure'),))
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 497, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2094, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 442, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 629, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1083, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

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[basicmaster]

Sorry, I just searched for open issues...

[dstftw]

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