soundcloud

[kickerofelves]

I get the following:

youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/2morrows-victory-records/j -f mp3 --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-wit', '--write-srt', '--restrict-filenames', '-f', '18/43/34/h264-sd/flv/mp4-sd/mp4']
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://soundcloud.com/2morrows-victory-records/j', '-f', 'mp3', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'UTF-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.01.30.2
[debug] Python version 2.7.5+ - Linux-3.10-3-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-jessie-sid
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] 2morrows-victory-records/j: Resolving id
[soundcloud] 2morrows-victory-records/j: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: requested format not available
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/damack/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 510, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/home/damack/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 539, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/home/damack/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 755, in process_video_result
    expected=True)
ExtractorError: requested format not available

I get the same problem with -fwav. Jdownloader downloads as a wave file.

[phihag]

This is correct, there is no mp3 format available:

$ youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/2morrows-victory-records/j --list-formats
[soundcloud] 2morrows-victory-records/j: Resolving id
[soundcloud] 2morrows-victory-records/j: Downloading info JSON
[info] Available formats for 34363427:
format code extension resolution  note 
download    wav       audio only

mp3 is not recognized as an extension code and is not a format code anyways. You can, however, pass in -x --audio-format mp3 (and no -f) and you'll get an mp3 every time.

[phihag]

By the way, your user-level configuration is prone to failure. Do you really want youtube-dl to give up if it doesn't find any of these formats? I'd add /best to ensure that you always get a video.