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Music Assistant has support for Soundcloud. Contributed by gieljnssns. Maintained by robsonke

Features

  • Max Quality: Lossy AAC (256kbps)

Configuration

Two fields need to be completed to use this provider, Client id and Authorization. To obtain these proceed as follows:

  1. Delete your cookies for Soundcloud.
  2. Go to Soundcloud.
  3. Open the Inspect tool (F12 on most browsers).
  4. Go to the page Network on the inspect terminal.
  5. Login.
  6. Search for auth.
  7. In one of the requests you will find the client_id
  8. And for the OAuth token we need the oauth_token cookie on the soundcloud.com domain prepended with "OAuth "

client_id: string of 32 bytes alphanumeric oauth_token: string inside the cookie value

Client id

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OAuth token

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Example snippet for the Music Provider configuration step (OAuth and client_id are NOT real, use yours):

client_id = jHvc9wa0Ejf092wj3f3920w3F920as02
Authorization = OAuth 3-26432-21446-asdif2309fj

Known Issues / Notes

  • Artists synced from Soundcloud are actually Soundcloud users.
  • If a song by artist X is uploaded by user Y, this song belongs to the artist Y in Music Assistant