Embed private soundcloud tracks

[darrens]

I'm trying to allow people to share their soundcloud tracks embedded into the posts. I found a plugin (vsoundcloud) which seemed to work really well but ..... it doesn't seem to work for soundcloud tracks which are private. Private is important as these are tracks which should be made available to the public at the time they're being used on the boards.

Soundcloud gives private tracks a secret link which I have used successfully on other boards but it doesn't seem to work with vsoundcloud where the embedded player just reports the following message:

You have not provided a valid SoundCloud URL. Learn more about using SoundCloud players.
SoundCloud.com

I see that vsoundcloud hasn't been updated for along time so I'm wondering if there's an alternative way to embed soundcloud stuff into posts which I just haven't discovered yet?

Thanks

[Chris]

Sept 12, 2022 8:00:24 GMT -8 darrens said:

I'm trying to allow people to share their soundcloud tracks embedded into the posts. I found a plugin (vsoundcloud) which seemed to work really well but ..... it doesn't seem to work for soundcloud tracks which are private. Private is important as these are tracks which should be made available to the public at the time they're being used on the boards.

Soundcloud gives private tracks a secret link which I have used successfully on other boards but it doesn't seem to work with vsoundcloud where the embedded player just reports the following message:

You have not provided a valid SoundCloud URL. Learn more about using SoundCloud players.
SoundCloud.com

I see that vsoundcloud hasn't been updated for along time so I'm wondering if there's an alternative way to embed soundcloud stuff into posts which I just haven't discovered yet?

Thanks

According to this Soundcloud page there appears to be a distinction between a private URL and a private embed which is still not very useful since it gives no examples of what a private URL or embed would look like as compared to a public one. However, the instructions in this post regarding using the plugin to embed playlists suggests that it requires the embed code (not the link) in that situation so could perhaps require the private embed code here as well.

If the plugin needs an update, then it would require a sample of the private URL or embed in order to code for recognition of a new URL or embed format, and that would, I assume, have to come from a member actively creating content and uploading to the Soundcloud platform

[darrens]

I'm happy to provide what soundcloud gives as links and also what it gives as full html embed. This is the same track - in the first instance it's public and in the second it's set as private. The "public" link works fine using vsoundcloud and the private one doesn't.

I have played about in trying to get the html somehow to work in a post but I don't think proboards lets you do it.

This has me stumped.

Public
soundcloud.com/user-553900031/anni-sinner-v2?si=def0634d5e43495f8ce07da8e3d80612&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

<iframe width="100%" height="600" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1341464302&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-553900031" title="Big Stewdio" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Big Stewdio</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-553900031/anni-sinner-v2" title="Anni - Sinner v2" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Anni - Sinner v2</a></div>

Private
soundcloud.com/user-553900031/anni-sinner-v2/s-6mtnnWAh10z?si=7a5be314bc3148a6b1addb2733cde0ef&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

<iframe width="100%" height="600" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1341464302%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-6mtnnWAh10z&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-553900031" title="Big Stewdio" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Big Stewdio</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-553900031/anni-sinner-v2/s-6mtnnWAh10z" title="Anni - Sinner v2" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Anni - Sinner v2</a></div>

[Chris]

According to the post regarding playlists from the support thread for this plugin that I linked earlier the plugin accepts embed codes as well as URLS (no need to try and embed raw HTML in a post).

My question is have you tried and ruled out using the private embed code yet (as opposed to the private link)

Aug 21, 2016 8:51:10 GMT -8 Virgil Sovereign said:

aphrodite : Unfortunately it seems that for playlists on SoundCloud you can't simply copy/paste the URL of the playlist. I admit it's odd that the track doesn't play since the player obviously knows what playlist is being referenced. It's likely a bug on SoundCloud's end.

In any case, you'll need to visit the "share" option on that page and copy the embed code under "embed".

Click on the "Insert Track" button, paste the embed code into the box provided, and the player should function properly. I've verified this for the qtee playlist.

Please let me know if you have any continuing problems.

Both the provided public and private embed codes as well as their respective links give me a "This track was not found. Maybe it has been removed...". Perhaps verify that they are properly published first before trying to embed (note: I am not a member nor am I familiar with the inner workings of the Soundcloud platform)

SPOILER: Click to show

[darrens]

Chris, no I hadn't tried that. But I just did. And it worked!!!!

Thank you so much for this - that is amazing.

[hogya006]

Okay so when you create a post click on the link tab at the top when choosing a category/type of post. You won't really have good means of making a caption so What I do is just post it in the comments under it. I had the same issue, Hope this helps!

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