[mixcloud] Unable to extract play info

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It seems is about weekly returning recurrent error. I always update youtube-dl, probably they rewrite regularly the mixcloud website.

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--playlist-items', '1-15', '-q', '--cookies=/tmp/napiutravalo-cookies.txt', '-o', '/tmp/youtube-dl/%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'https://www.mixcloud.com/napiutravalo/', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.09.11
[debug] Python version 3.6.2 - Linux-4.12.12-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
ERROR: Unable to extract play info; 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.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 776, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py", line 108, in _real_extract
    r'm-play-info="([^"]+)"', webpage, 'play info')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 797, in _search_regex
    raise RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract %s' % _name)
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract play info; 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.

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Sometimes it helps when I remove the cookies file. Now the cookie deletion wasn't enough.