Re:2.5M Installs Later, R.I.P. Downloader for SoundCloud
by smosher_ on Sunday November 09, 2014 @11:23AM
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> There are still plenty of SoundCloud downloaders, and as long as the data is transferred it can still be downloaded.
A while back I was fooling around with their API. The "stream" you get is just an mp3, so downloading any song is incredibly easy. It's a shitty thing to do though. The artist will only get a single play out of it... and maybe they were trying to sell you a download. You (not you in particular, anyone reading this) might not sympathize with SoundCloud, but please act in good faith toward its users. SC users are changing the music landscape.
Trivia: the stream mp3 isn't the same thing you get when you click the download link. SC streams are at a particular bitrate, but the proper downloads are of the original file which could be an aiff or higher bitrate mp3.
A while back I was fooling around with their API. The "stream" you get is just an mp3, so downloading any song is incredibly easy. It's a shitty thing to do though. The artist will only get a single play out of it... and maybe they were trying to sell you a download. You (not you in particular, anyone reading this) might not sympathize with SoundCloud, but please act in good faith toward its users. SC users are changing the music landscape.
Trivia: the stream mp3 isn't the same thing you get when you click the download link. SC streams are at a particular bitrate, but the proper downloads are of the original file which could be an aiff or higher bitrate mp3.