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		toomuchtodo on Feb 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m los... Have you tried using youtube-dl? It extracts the relevant data from Soundcloud's JSON API to perform the download: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ I know you mentioned originals are only accessible through the web interface, but I was not sure if you were aware of the JSON API.

zimpenfish on Feb 11, 2016 [–]

Oh, I didn't know that. I ended up writing my own SoundcloudSync.py to keep a backup. Not very sophisticated but easy enough to run by hand whenever I upload something new.

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