Cannot Get properly filtered Tracks

[AllFatherGray]

Title: Cannot retrieve all tracks for a user

Issue found of: December 2th, 2024

Endpoint(s):

• GET /users/{id}/tracks

Scope(s):

• None (application is not using authentication i.e., implicit flow)

Steps to reproduce:

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks?limit=1&linked_partitioning=true&client_id=DONT_SHARE_CLIENT_ID'

Expected behaviour:

A list of tracks as described at https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/reference#users.

Actual behaviour:

Tracks with completely different genres and always more Tracks than the limit.

[AllFatherGray]

The search for BPM seems to fail with BPM values of null

[youssefhassan]

Hey @AllFatherGray, thanks for the report.
The URL in the CURL is invalid and we don't support anonymous or client credentials calls i.e adding client_id into the URL. There has to be an authorization token for the user. The expected behaviour for the above request should be something like
A request must contain the Authorization header
Maybe you're looking into /search/tracks endpoints, Please elaborate what is your use case

[AllFatherGray]

@youssefhassan
Yes, I am using the auth token and I get tracks but they are just random tracks and don't always follow the genre tag I add.
There should be a genre list similar to the old way I've seen on StackOverflow so users know what is available.
Essentially, what endpoint / CURL/ URL should I use to get, for example, the top 10 Soul genre songs?
Or the top 10 songs in general?
People are mentioning using api2 and I see it in some repos but are these values still in use?
Thanks in advance.
soundcloud:genres:all-music
soundcloud:genres:all-audio
soundcloud:genres:alternativerock
soundcloud:genres:ambient
soundcloud:genres:classical
soundcloud:genres:country
soundcloud:genres:danceedm
soundcloud:genres:dancehall
soundcloud:genres:deephouse
soundcloud:genres:disco
soundcloud:genres:drumbass
soundcloud:genres:dubstep
soundcloud:genres:electronic
soundcloud:genres:folksingersongwriter
soundcloud:genres:hiphoprap
soundcloud:genres:house
soundcloud:genres:indie
soundcloud:genres:jazzblues
soundcloud:genres:latin
soundcloud:genres:metal
soundcloud:genres:piano
soundcloud:genres:pop
soundcloud:genres:rbsoul
soundcloud:genres:reggae
soundcloud:genres:reggaeton
soundcloud:genres:rock
soundcloud:genres:soundtrack
soundcloud:genres:techno
soundcloud:genres:trance
soundcloud:genres:trap
soundcloud:genres:triphop
soundcloud:genres:world
soundcloud:genres:audiobooks
soundcloud:genres:business
soundcloud:genres:comedy
soundcloud:genres:entertainment
soundcloud:genres:learning
soundcloud:genres:newspolitics
soundcloud:genres:religionspirituality
soundcloud:genres:science
soundcloud:genres:sports
soundcloud:genres:storytelling
soundcloud:genres:technology

[youssefhassan]

@AllFatherGray we don't support top tracks from a specific genre on public APIs
You can use https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/explorer/open-api#/search/get_tracks but as it's a search endpoint a query string has to be input.
Also there's a bug on the api explorer, the endpoint should be /search/tracks not /tracks
What is the application are you using for that? and what are you trying to achieve?

[AllFatherGray]

@youssefhassan
When using the Search endpoint the track ID: 1927786280
Produces an access policy of "playable".
But for the 'tracks/id' endpoint it says 'blocked' and cannot be streamed.

[youssefhassan]

Track access depends on many factors, user location, subscription, the application requesting. For playing, the more accurate access is the tracks/id one. Are both requests made with the same user token or client credentials? Happy to have a look into it

[AllFatherGray]

@youssefhassan Thank you so much for your response. Yes the id and token are the same. I am using the API sandbox on the dev site.
Also can I get a list of acceptable genres?