Soundcloud set fails to download when a song is deleted (404)

[sorashi]

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Description

Running this command

youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/nyanners/sets/nyannerz-gonna-give-it-to-ya-x2-nekomimi-reloaded

Fails with

ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: 'Not Found'>);

full log here

The problem is that this Soundcloud set used to contain a song, but that song was deleted or is inaccessible. I think the JSON metadata still contains the song, so youtube-dl tries to reach it, but fails due to 404 response. These issues seem related #18954 #18746

[sorashi]

I just realized this can be resolved by passing the -i option. I will still leave this issue open for consideration.

[dstftw]

This is expected behavior.