Soundcloud: 401

[robvanuden]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://soundcloud.com/zwette/another-love', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.03.10
[debug] Python version 3.6.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-87327-g18821e3, ffprobe N-87327-g18821e3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] zwette/another-love: Resolving id
[soundcloud] zwette/another-love: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by <HTTPError 401: 'Unauthorized'>); 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 "youtube-dl\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 519, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "youtube-dl\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2199, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "C:\Users\m\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Users\m\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 642, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "C:\Users\m\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Users\m\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\m\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\urllib\request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)


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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

When I try to download any track from Soundcloud, I get a 401 error. I saw other issues regarding this from January, but it should be fixed by now, but I get the error now. It did work a week ago.

[benoon]

same here