[Bug] SoundCloud won't play

[DrDustwolf]

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• I have attached the error report in the issue.

Describe the bug
I encountered this while trying to play a song on SoundCloud.

Steps to reproduce the bug
Search a track on SoundCloud and tap on it in order to play it.

Device (e.g. Pixel 9 Pro)

• Device: Shift6mq
• 128GB ROM (44GB free)
• 8GB RAM
• 1TB microSDXC (613,2GB free) (SanDisk Extreme PRO R200/W140 microSDXC 1TB, UHS-I U3, A2, Class 10
  SDSQXCD-1T00-GN6MA)
• OS: LineageOS 21-20241102-microG-axolotl (based on Android 14)

Additional context

• only very few Apps running in the Background (e.g. Messenger & E-Mail)

Error report

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_UNSPECIFIED] occurred while playing https://soundcloud.com/andreas-vollenweider/pace-verde
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: SoundCloud (Anonymous)
• Version: 4.0.1
• OS: Linux Android 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.PlaybackException
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.Player.onBroadcastReceived(Player.java:1328)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.Player.-$$Nest$monBroadcastReceived(Unknown Source:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.Player$4.onReceive(Player.java:1236)
	at android.app.LoadedApk$ReceiverDispatcher$Args.lambda$getRunnable$0(LoadedApk.java:1810)
	at android.app.LoadedApk$ReceiverDispatcher$Args.$r8$lambda$mcNAAl1SQ4MyJPyDg8TJ2x2h0Rk(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.LoadedApk$ReceiverDispatcher$Args$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.run(D8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:959)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8592)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:580)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:878)

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Frequency? And does that happen on all tracks?

[DrDustwolf]

It doesn't happen always, but often.

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_UNSPECIFIED] occurred while playing https://soundcloud.com/shane-st-pierre-97886576/smoke-thought-criminals-feat-odd-tv
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: SoundCloud (Anonymous)
• Version: 4.0.1
• OS: Linux Android 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.PlaybackException
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.Player.onBroadcastReceived(Player.java:1328)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.Player.-$$Nest$monBroadcastReceived(Unknown Source:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.Player$4.onReceive(Player.java:1236)
	at android.app.LoadedApk$ReceiverDispatcher$Args.lambda$getRunnable$0(LoadedApk.java:1810)
	at android.app.LoadedApk$ReceiverDispatcher$Args.$r8$lambda$mcNAAl1SQ4MyJPyDg8TJ2x2h0Rk(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.LoadedApk$ReceiverDispatcher$Args$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.run(D8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:959)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8592)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:580)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:878)

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[DrDustwolf]

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Loading failed for [One More Dance]: https://soundcloud.com/gigidag1/one-more-dance
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: SoundCloud (Anonymous)
• Version: 4.0.1
• OS: Linux Android 14 - 34

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.player.mediasource.FailedMediaSource$StreamInfoLoadException: org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.SoundCloudGoPlusContentException: This track is a SoundCloud Go+ track
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager.lambda$getLoadedMediaSource$4(MediaSourceManager.java:456)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager.$r8$lambda$PbwBdDOtDG7Fq70IPh8GxY_v1yw(Unknown Source:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.playback.MediaSourceManager$$ExternalSyntheticLambda5.apply(Unknown Source:4)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleOnErrorReturn$OnErrorReturn.onError(SingleOnErrorReturn.java:55)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleMap$MapSingleObserver.onError(SingleMap.java:70)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnError$DoOnError.onError(SingleDoOnError.java:63)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.onError(SingleSubscribeOn.java:73)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle$ToSingleMaybeSubscriber.onError(MaybeToSingle.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onError(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:94)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.onError(MaybeConcatArray.java:100)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle$FromSingleObserver.onError(MaybeFromSingle.java:82)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess$DoOnSuccess.onError(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:65)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:47)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4813)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4813)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5330)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:15868)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5330)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4813)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:644)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:65)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:56)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:307)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)
Caused by: org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.SoundCloudGoPlusContentException: This track is a SoundCloud Go+ track
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.soundcloud.extractors.SoundcloudStreamExtractor.onFetchPage(SoundcloudStreamExtractor.java:70)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.Extractor.fetchPage(Extractor.java:60)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:84)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:79)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getStreamInfo$3(ExtractorHelper.java:127)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.$r8$lambda$YTHJjScxCJNO1LTCqs3IKy35iyY(Unknown Source:0)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper$$ExternalSyntheticLambda5.call(Unknown Source:4)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:43)
	... 23 more

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[DrDustwolf]

Channel: https://soundcloud.com/gigidag1
After clicking "background/hintergrund" it played 3 songs and on the forth song this error happened.

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://soundcloud.com/gigidag1/the-love-do-do
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: SoundCloud (Anonymous)
• Version: 4.0.1
• OS: Linux Android 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:641)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:613)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultHttpDataSource.open(DefaultHttpDataSource.java:396)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:258)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:786)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:599)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.prepareExtraction(HlsMediaChunk.java:495)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.feedDataToExtractor(HlsMediaChunk.java:468)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.loadMedia(HlsMediaChunk.java:437)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.load(HlsMediaChunk.java:394)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)

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[DrDustwolf]

After continuing to play a few songs later.

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://soundcloud.com/gigidag1/hes-a-pirate
• Content Country: GB
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: SoundCloud (Anonymous)
• Version: 4.0.1
• OS: Linux Android 14 - 34

Crash log

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:641)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:613)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultHttpDataSource.open(DefaultHttpDataSource.java:396)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:258)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:786)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:599)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.prepareExtraction(HlsMediaChunk.java:495)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.feedDataToExtractor(HlsMediaChunk.java:468)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.loadMedia(HlsMediaChunk.java:437)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.hls.HlsMediaChunk.load(HlsMediaChunk.java:394)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)

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[InfinityLoop1308]

SoundCloud is introducing some type of blocking. There won't be a fix except NewPipe found the problem and fix it.

[InfinityLoop1308]

Fixed in 4.2.0