Playback rate limits

[mediaformat]

Cumulus v0.10.0 on macOS 10.11.6

After login I can see my feed.

As soon as I try to play anything from my list, the player just skips through everything, loading all track data into the player (image, artist, track, time remaining).

[Hum4n01d]

I'm getting a similar issue

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On Mar 11, 2017, at 10:04 AM, Django Doucet ***@***.***> wrote: Cumulus v0.10.0 on macOS 10.11.6 After login I can see my feed. As soon as I try to play anything, the player just skips through everything, loading all track metadata into the player (. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[mediaformat]

tried v.0.9.0, same deal

[Hum4n01d]

I’m using v0.9.0 and it’s skipping through, how should I fix this? /cc @gillesdemey

[Hum4n01d]

This might be helpful @gillesdemey:

I ran with NODE_ENV=development and got a whole bunch errors in the console that said:

https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224674551/stream?client_id=f17c1d67b83c86194fad2b1948061c9e 429 (Unknown)

I checked one of the error pages and I saw this:

{"errors":[{"meta":{"rate_limit":{"bucket":"by-client","max_nr_of_requests":15000,"time_window":"PT24H","name":"plays"},"remaining_requests":0,"reset_time":"2017/03/12 12:22:59 +0000"}}]}

It looks like there’s rate limiting stopping Cumulus from working. :(

[gillesdemey]

I think it's pretty obvious at this point that Cumulus' application credentials are exceeding the 15.000 plays / 24h rate limit.

https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/rate-limits

I'm not quite sure if we can increase the rate limit, so at this point all we can do is show some sort of exception to the user 😔

[Hum4n01d]

ok :)

[mirshko]

@gillesdemey I too am having this issue. I would escalate this issue to critical bug.

I hope SoundCloud doesn't give you guys the Twitter dev treatment.

Having the same issue, making Cumulus unusable.

[MichielDeMey]

@DougoS Everyone is having the same issue, it appears that Soundcloud introduced rate limits on their API making it unusable in case a lot of users are using the same app.

There is not much we can do at this point except reach out to them asking to increase the limit for our API key.

[benjaminclarkco]

I used to use soundnode and then I switched to cumulus because it ran into the same rate-limiting problem. Back on the hunt. Thank you to the devs for making such an insanely beautiful and minimal app. I will miss it. My productivity will miss it. Purple heart 💜 much love, respect ✌️

[gillesdemey]

Thanks for the kind words @BenjaminClark.

I've requested to have the API rate limit increased, waiting to hear back from them 🤞

[mediaformat]

otherwise a few api keys could be used, and switch between them on rate-limit error

[MichielDeMey]

@mediaformat We've discussed this approach internally and we're not going to go down this road since this goes against their Terms of Use.
See: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/terms-of-use#quotas

As much as we'd like to, as an open-source community we have the obligation to play by the rules. 😉

[mediaformat]

ok, I hadn't seen that page!

Fairplay to you guys 🥇