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    copied!<p>My app which uses the Soundcloud API all the sudden stopped embedding widgets correctly today. I tried visiting the url which displays the widget by itself by following an embed link like so: <a href="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F67072574&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;show_artwork=false&amp;show_bpm=true&amp;show_comments=true&amp;download=true&amp;maxwidth=440px&amp;maxheight=160px&amp;client_id=61628c1d0518b32eef1d403bb5a4a7a5" rel="nofollow">http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F67072574&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;show_artwork=false&amp;show_bpm=true&amp;show_comments=true&amp;download=true&amp;maxwidth=440px&amp;maxheight=160px&amp;client_id=61628c1d0518b32eef1d403bb5a4a7a5</a></p> <p>It was blank, and I noticed in the console this error:</p> <p><code>XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/66977856?client_id=0f8fdbbaa21a9bd18210986a7dc2d72c&amp;format=json. Origin http://w.soundcloud.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.</code></p> <p>Checking other sites that embed the player, I saw the same issue (on Chrome).</p> <p>I saw on their <a href="http://status.soundcloud.com/post/35606705422/outage-update" rel="nofollow">status blog</a> that they had some server issues today, maybe this is a side effect, since everything worked properly until today.</p> <p>Anyways, I also noticed that if I use <a href="https://w.soundcloud.com" rel="nofollow">https://w.soundcloud.com</a> instead of 'http://' in the iframe src to embed the player displayed correctly. Therefore I worked around it by doing <code>puts embed_info['html'].gsub("http://w","https://w")</code> instead of the recommended <code>puts embed_info['html']</code>.</p> <p>I would like to know whether I was supposed to use <code>https</code> in the first place, or this is something that needs to be fixed on their end.</p>
 

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