soundcloud: ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by HTTPError());

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youtube-dl --verbose http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/334460087
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/334460087']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.10.15.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.9 - Linux-3.2.0-64-virtual-x86_64-with-debian-wheezy-sid
[debug] exe versions: avconv v12_dev0-355-g28396d1, avprobe v12_dev0-355-g28396d1, ffmpeg 0.8.17-4, ffprobe 0.8.17-4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] 334460087: 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; 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/local/python2.7.9/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 503, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7.9/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2195, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7.9/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7.9/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7.9/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7.9/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/python2.7.9/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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youtube-dl fails on all soundcloud tracks, with error above, python version is 2.7.9

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Already fixed. Wait for next release.