Soundcloud page ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata

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Similar to #11598 ... except that I get a 404 error when "download(ing) JSON Metadata" instead of a 403. I have more recent versions of Python on the system (up to 3.6.2) though 2.7.12 is the default (Ubuntu 16.04 seems to break if not).

[4] anjaneya% youtube-dl -v !$
youtube-dl -v http://soundcloud.com/jahnavi_harrison/kirtan-at-yamuna-devis-samadhi
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://soundcloud.com/jahnavi_harrison/kirtan-at-yamuna-devis-samadhi']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.27.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-93-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: avconv 3.2.6-1, avprobe 3.2.6-1, ffmpeg 3.2.6-1, ffprobe 3.2.6-1, rtmpdump 2.4-n111-gitfa8646d-ppa9p2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] jahnavi_harrison/kirtan-at-yamuna-devis-samadhi: Resolving id
[soundcloud] jahnavi_harrison/kirtan-at-yamuna-devis-samadhi: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 503, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2168, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

[5] anjaneya% 

[dstftw]

Not playable in browser either.

[jplatte]

I've got this same error message and it aborted a playlist download for me. It would be nice if one track in the playlist not being available wouldn't cause youtube-dl to abort the whole download process.

Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/infectedmushroom/sets/friends-on-mushrooms-deluxe
Unavailable track is no. 5: https://soundcloud.com/infectedmushroom/5-kazabubu

[remitamine]

-i, --ignore-errors              Continue on download errors, for example to
                                 skip unavailable videos in a playlist