"HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized" on Soundcloud

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Checklist

• I'm reporting a broken site support issue
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2019.11.22
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that all URLs and arguments with special characters are properly quoted or escaped
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar bug reports including closed ones
• I've read bugs section in FAQ

Verbose log

C:\Windows\system32>youtube-dl -v https://soundcloud.com/user-61565545/dj-icey-l
ove-the-rare-one-youve-been-looking-for-and-high-quality
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://soundcloud.com/user-61565545/dj-icey-
love-the-rare-one-youve-been-looking-for-and-high-quality']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out utf-8, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.11.22
[debug] Python version 3.6.6 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2019-11-17-b741a84, ffprobe git-2019-11-17-b741
a84
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[soundcloud] user-61565545/dj-icey-love-the-rare-one-youve-been-looking-for-and-
high-quality: Downloading info JSON
WARNING: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized
[soundcloud] user-61565545/dj-icey-love-the-rare-one-youve-been-looking-for-and-
high-quality: Downloading info JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized (caused by
 <HTTPError 401: 'Unauthorized'>); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org
/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update
  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and inclu
de its complete output.
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\extractor\common.
py", line 627, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\site-packages\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", li
ne 2237, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 532, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 642, in http_resp
onse
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 570, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 504, in _call_cha
in
    result = func(*args)
  File "c:\program files\python36\lib\urllib\request.py", line 650, in http_erro
r_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)

Description

I tried downloading this song from Soundcloud using youtube-dl GUI but I got a 401 error. I tried the same thing from the command line and got the error again.

[buzo-ffm]

Happens here too – version youtube-dl-git-2019.11.22.r0.0de9fd24d (Arch Linux)

[juchmis]

Confirmed soundcloud not working (win32 prebuilt binaries from 22 Nov).