Tracks for “The Hives” are not streaming via the api

Question

Tracks for \"The Hives\" claims to be streamable, but are returning 404s.

Here\'s the JSON response for Civilization\'s Dying id 3644317 (http://api.soundcloud.com/track

Answer 1

There's currently a bug affecting some artists whose tracks are not actually streamable any more, but the API response not showing that fact. This should be fixed very shortly.

Answer 2

Make sure this song has "sharing" set to "public" in the returned track get request. If not, you will need to authenticate with Soundcloud.

http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs#authentication

Answer 3

I encountered this issue as well when I tried to stream Lorde's (Royals) tracks. (Soundcloud userid: 27622444)

After examining the track properties returned from the API I noticed that the streamable property had been set to false

API return data:

(...)
sharing: "public"
state: "finished"
streamable: false
tag_list: ""
title: "Swingin' Party"
(...)

Hope that helps!

Cheers, T