[Question] Soundcloud Go+ Download not working

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I attempted to download via my Go+ account a track I own the rights to from Soundcloud. I'd rather not reveal that track, so here is another Go+ track which I can successfully play in my browser, but cannot download with yt-dlc using my cookie credentials.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have a Go+ account & be logged in
2. use cookies.txt chrome extension to download a soundcloud.com_cookies.txt file
3. Run the command below

% youtube-dlc -f bestaudio -x --audio-quality 0 "https://soundcloud.com/soundgarden/loud-love" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --cookies ./soundcloud.com_cookies.txt --ap-username "[email protected]" --ap-password "xxxxxxxxxxxxx" -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-f', 'bestaudio', '-x', '--audio-quality', '0', 'https://soundcloud.com/soundgarden/loud-love', '-o', '%(title)s.%(ext)s', '--cookies', './soundcloud.com_cookies.txt', '--ap-username', 'PRIVATE', '--ap-password', 'PRIVATE', '-v']
[debug] Loading archive file None
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dlc version 2020.11.11-2
[debug] Python version 3.7.6 (CPython) - Darwin-19.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 12.2, avprobe 12.2, ffmpeg 4.2, ffprobe 4.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] soundgarden/loud-love: Downloading info JSON
[soundcloud] 255816383: Downloading JSON metadata
[soundcloud] 255816383: Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://cf-preview-media.sndcdn.com/preview/0/30/iBq3nRSDy046.128.mp3?Policy=xxxxxx&Signature=xxxxxxxx&Key-Pair-Id=APKAI6TU7MMXM5DG6EPQ'
[download] Destination: Loud Love.mp3
[download] 100% of 465.30KiB in 00:00
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams 'file:Loud Love.mp3'
[ffmpeg] Post-process file Loud Love.mp3 exists, skipping

Attempting this same command a) without the username password, just the cookies, or b) with just username password, and no cookies file both fail.

Version / format information

% pip freeze | grep you
youtube-dlc==2020.11.11.post2
% python --version
Python 3.7.6

and the cookies file (with info redacted):

% cat soundcloud.com_cookies.txt
# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# This file is generated by youtube-dlc.  Do not edit.

.soundcloud.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	123123123123	G_ENABLED_IDPS	google
.soundcloud.com	TRUE	/	TRUE	0	connect_session	1
.soundcloud.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	123123123	ja	64
.soundcloud.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	123123123123	sclocale	en
.soundcloud.com	TRUE	/	TRUE	0	soundcloud_session_hint	1
api-auth.soundcloud.com	FALSE	/	TRUE	0	_soundcloud_session	"xxxxxxxx--xxxxx/xxxx="
checkout.soundcloud.com	FALSE	/	TRUE	0	checkout-auth-token	2-xxxxxx-xxxxxxx
checkout.soundcloud.com	FALSE	/	TRUE	0	checkout-auth-token-legacy	2-xxxxxx-xxxxxxx
soundcloud.com	FALSE	/	TRUE	123123123123	oauth_token	2-xxxxxx-xxxxxxx

What could be going wrong?

[rgiuffre]

Since youtube-dlc is no longer being updated, I would suggest using yt-dlp instead.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/
Also, the music clip on the link you provided is probably one of the most grating sounds I've ever heard. :-)