Soundcloud API - Origin is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin

Question

As a follow-up to Play playlist or track by permalink not trackid: the solution provided works fine seemingly everywhere except Safari on Mac.

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Answer 1

You can try using the JSONP approach. Here's an updated fiddle using JSONP instead of XMLHttpRequest. The main difference is in the getSoundCloudId() method and the addition of a global jsonpResponse() method.

function getSoundCloudId(permalink) {
  var jsonp   = document.createElement('script');
  var script  = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
  jsonp.type  = 'text/javascript';
  jsonp.async = true;
  jsonp.src   = 'http://api.soundcloud.com/resolve.json?client_id='+CLIENT_ID 
              + '&url='+permalink+'&callback=jsonpResponse';
  script.parentNode.insertBefore(jsonp, script);
  return false;
}