Comments on: Updates to the SoundCloud AS3 API

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:02:51 +0000

After downloading everything I am getting stuck at 1150: The protected attribute can only be used on class property definitions.

By: Dorian

Dorian — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:09:40 +0000

@Sam
Sandbox is a complete SoundCloud system for testing purposes only. So you have to register your app there separately:
http://sandbox-soundcloud.com/you/apps/new

And you will get a different consumer key/secret code for that server, too. It’s a bit confusing first, I know ;)

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:56:07 +0000

@Dorian
Thanks for the update, it explains a lot. I’ve registered my application, but I still can’t connect to the Sandbox server, even with the consumer key and consumer secret supplied. Do I need to register my application on the sandbox as well? I’m not quite sure the difference between http://www.soundcloud.com and http://sandbox-soundcloud.com/ – can you clear it up?

Thanks.

By: Dorian

Dorian — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:57:48 +0000

@Sam
Just found out that SoundCloud has rolled out a new authentication policy on their sandbox-server on friday. They’re not accepting calls to public resources without a consumer key anymore. The production server still works without a key though. So if you change your client to use the production server, everything should be fine. Just set the fourth argument to false:
new SoundcloudClient(”",”",null,false);

But to be ready when they roll this out on the live system, you should register your app now and get a consumer key. Read more about it here:
http://groups.google.com/group/soundcloudapi/browse_thread/thread/a6d05b7bf4d64a3f/bcdb595d73bf1ee3

Thanks for pointing this out! I’ll update the post now.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:54:26 +0000

@Dorian
The URL works fine, it brings up the correct XML page. I get the following error in flash:

http://api.sandbox-soundcloud.com/users/***/tracks.xml?oauth_consumer_key=&oauth_nonce=***&oauth_signature=***&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1274096951

NB – I’m not sure how important the information is in that URL so just to be certain I starred it out. When I attempt to go that URL I get an XML page that says 401-Unauthorized.

Any ideas what might be going wrong?

By: Dorian

Dorian — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:56:42 +0000

@Sam
check if you get a valid response when you copy the URL in your browser address bar, to make sure that you use the correct URL
e.g. http://soundcloud.com/users/yourUserName/tracks
If your browser displays a blank page, check the source code of the page because the browser might not display XML code.
If that works but you still get the error in Flash, please post your code here or send it to me via email (dori@nroy.de)

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:01:59 +0000

I’m trying to just use the public method to grab some tracks from my user account. So I’m not using any authorisation.

I’m using essentially the same code snippet as the one you provided above, however I am getting a Error #2032: Stream Error. Can you advise as to why this might be happening?

By: Dorian

Dorian — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:34:35 +0000

Hi Praveen, github is having some trouble generating the ZIP files lately. I have uploaded the current sources to the download section so you can grab them there:
http://github.com/dorianroy/Soundcloud-AS3-API/downloads

Regarding the link to the uploaded file: you can retrieve it from the response body of the upload, I think it is in a property named “permalink-url”

By: Praveen Sharma

Praveen Sharma — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:40:04 +0000

Also – I can’t download the API Wrapper from github! seems to be broken…

By: Praveen Sharma

Praveen Sharma — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:24:07 +0000

Hi! I’ve been trying to create a flash based uploader for Soundcloud for my Rails application. I’ve run into an issue that perhaps you can assist with – first, I’m hitting their API directly so I can avoid having to upload first to my server and then push to SC. The problem I’ve encountered is that even after a successful upload, I am unable to retrieve the response Content-Location header data. Is this even possible? I need to get this link so that i can store it in the app…