youtube-dl: Unable to download from Souncloud

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2017.03.06. If it’s not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

Jeremys-iMac:~ jeremycherfas$ youtube-dl --verbose https://soundcloud.com/geofft-1/chicken-the-charismatic-supermarkets-a-cultural-economy-of-power-quinoa-prof-jane-dixon
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://soundcloud.com/geofft-1/chicken-the-charismatic-supermarkets-a-cultural-economy-of-power-quinoa-prof-jane-dixon']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] geofft-1/chicken-the-charismatic-supermarkets-a-cultural-economy-of-power-quinoa-prof-jane-dixon: Resolving id
[soundcloud] geofft-1/chicken-the-charismatic-supermarkets-a-cultural-economy-of-power-quinoa-prof-jane-dixon: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by HTTPError()); 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 "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 496, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2093, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
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