Soundcloud - Private Playlists No Longer Working

si_edgey

Thank you for your help!

I have a Flarum forum for my music school and my students post private Soundcloud playlists of their music a lot. Previously, these worked perfectly simply by posting the private url, which loaded an embedded player. However at some point ago the functionality seems to have broken across all Flarum forums.

Embedding a public playlist from Soundcloud still works simply by posting the link, for example:

However a private link (which previously worked perfectly) states that it is an invalid URL. I have tried on various different Flarum forums and it is always the same result:

I'm running beta 13 currently, and this functionality was previously working, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Simon

ctml

si_edgey Is there anyway to validate this was not perhaps just a change on the backend by soundcloud? I'm not well versed on soundcloud but seems like they are not returning the track and may not have anything to do with flarum.

fakruzaruret

si_edgey Why you try to share private link as public?

si_edgey

Thanks for your help all! In answer to your questions:

ctml Is there anyway to validate this was not perhaps just a change on the backend by soundcloud?

Just to clarify, if I share the same private link on my Wordpress website the embedded player is created in the same way it used to be on Flarum.

fakruzaruret Why you try to share private link as public?

My students are sharing their 'work in progress' tracks, so they share them for feedback but not so the public can see them until they're released by the record label.

clarkwinkelmann Can you share a link to such a private playlist so we can do some tests?

Here's an example - this link creates an embedded player perfectly on my Wordpress website, however, pasting it into Flarum creates this:

clarkwinkelmann Have you tried going back to a previous Flarum version to see whether it's Flarum related or indeed just a change in Soundcloud?

I haven't, I'll be honest - I found it quite tricky to upgrade from beta 12 to beta 13 so I've just stuck with that ever since, and wouldn't like to attempt downgrading. Flarum has been a steep learning curve for me!

clarkwinkelmann If Soundcloud changed their policy regarding embedding private playlists, there's probably an article to be found on their website about the change.

The same private playlist will happily embed anywhere else I've tried it, just not on Flarum anymore.

tankerkiller125 Looking deeper into this it appears to be a soundcloud permission issue. Your have to make sure that the Display Embed code option is enabled. They likely changed it to be turned off by default recently.

The permissions on Soundcloud are set correctly and an embedded player is created when the link is posted in Wordpress or other forums, as it used to on Flarum.

Thanks again for your help, much appreciated.

clarkwinkelmann

Can you share a link to such a private playlist so we can do some tests?

Have you tried going back to a previous Flarum version to see whether it's Flarum related or indeed just a change in Soundcloud?

If Soundcloud changed their policy regarding embedding private playlists, there's probably an article to be found on their website about the change.

tankerkiller125

Looking deeper into this it appears to be a soundcloud permission issue. Your have to make sure that the Display Embed code option is enabled. They likely changed it to be turned off by default recently.

clarkwinkelmann

I haven't taken a look at trying it myself yes, but looking at the TextFormatter source code, it seems like no change was made to soundcloud embed since 2018, so it's unlikely the problem comes from here https://github.com/s9e/TextFormatter/commits/cdb0984ad6602cbfb175a86b597107bb34471c69/src/Plugins/MediaEmbed/Configurator/sites/soundcloud.xml

si_edgey

clarkwinkelmann Hi @clarkwinkelmann, thanks a lot for your help. Just wanted to check in and see if you had any ideas about embedding private Soundcloud playlists? As mentioned, the same link creates an embedded player across other forums and on Wordpress, but not on Flarum. If you have any ideas it would be hugely appreciated!

Thanks,
Simon