diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 48616015d..6eafc30b1 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -3481,20 +3481,20 @@ class XVideosIE(InfoExtractor):
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download ' + video_id)
 
 
-class SoundcloudIE(InformationExtractor):
+class SoundcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
 	"""Information extractor for soundcloud.com
-       To access the media, the uid of the song and a stream token
-       must be extracted from the page source and the script must make
-       a request to media.soundcloud.com/crossdomain.xml. Then
-       the media can be grabbed by requesting from an url composed
-       of the stream token and uid
-     """
+	   To access the media, the uid of the song and a stream token
+	   must be extracted from the page source and the script must make
+	   a request to media.soundcloud.com/crossdomain.xml. Then
+	   the media can be grabbed by requesting from an url composed
+	   of the stream token and uid
+	 """
 
 	_VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?soundcloud\.com/([\w\d-]+)/([\w\d-]+)'
 	IE_NAME = u'soundcloud'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+	def __init__(self, downloader=None):
+		InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
 
 	def report_webpage(self, video_id):
 		"""Report information extraction."""
@@ -3504,8 +3504,8 @@ class SoundcloudIE(InformationExtractor):
 		"""Report information extraction."""
 		self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
 
-    def _real_initialize(self):
-        return
+	def _real_initialize(self):
+		return
 
 	def _real_extract(self, url):
 		htmlParser = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()
@@ -3515,10 +3515,10 @@ class SoundcloudIE(InformationExtractor):
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid URL: %s' % url)
 			return
 
-        # extract uploader (which is in the url)
-        uploader = mobj.group(3).decode('utf-8')
-        # extract simple title (uploader + slug of song title)
-		slug_title =  mobj.group(4).decode('utf-8')
+		# extract uploader (which is in the url)
+		uploader = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+		# extract simple title (uploader + slug of song title)
+		slug_title =  mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
 		simple_title = uploader + '-' + slug_title
 
 		self.report_webpage('%s/%s' % (uploader, slug_title))
@@ -3532,32 +3532,36 @@ class SoundcloudIE(InformationExtractor):
 
 		self.report_extraction('%s/%s' % (uploader, slug_title))
 
-        # extract uid and access token
-        mobj = re.search('"uid":"([\w\d]+?)".*?stream_token=([\w\d]+)', page)   
-        if mobj:
-            video_id = match.group(1)
-            stream_token = match.group(2)
-
-        # construct media url (with uid/token) to request song
-        mediaURL = "http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/%s?stream_token=%s"
-        mediaURL = mediaURL % (video_id, stream_token)
-
-        # description
-        description = u'No description available'
-        mobj = re.search('track-description-value"><p>(.*?)</p>', page)
-        if mobj:
-            description = mobj.group(1)
-        
-        # upload date
-        mobj = re.search("pretty-date'>on ([\w]+ [\d]+, [\d]+ \d+:\d+)</abbr></h2>", page)
-        if mobj:
-            try:
-    		    upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(match.group(1), '%B %d, %Y %H:%M').strftime('%Y%m%d')
-            except:
-                pass
-
-        try:
-            self._download.process_info({
+		# extract uid and access token
+		mobj = re.search('"uid":"([\w\d]+?)".*?stream_token=([\w\d]+)', page)   
+		if mobj:
+			video_id = match.group(1)
+			stream_token = match.group(2)
+
+		# construct media url (with uid/token) to request song
+		mediaURL = "http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/%s?stream_token=%s"
+		mediaURL = mediaURL % (video_id, stream_token)
+
+		# description
+		description = u'No description available'
+		mobj = re.search('track-description-value"><p>(.*?)</p>', page)
+		if mobj:
+			description = mobj.group(1)
+		
+		# upload date
+		mobj = re.search("pretty-date'>on ([\w]+ [\d]+, [\d]+ \d+:\d+)</abbr></h2>", page)
+		if mobj:
+			try:
+				upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(match.group(1), '%B %d, %Y %H:%M').strftime('%Y%m%d')
+			except:
+				pass
+
+		# for soundcloud, a request must be made to a cross domain to establish
+		# needed cookies
+		request = urllib2.Request('http://media.soundcloud.com/crossdomain.xml', std_headers)
+
+		try:
+			self._downloader.process_info({
 				'id':		video_id,
 				'url':		video_url,
 				'uploader':	uploader,
@@ -3567,8 +3571,10 @@ class SoundcloudIE(InformationExtractor):
 				'ext':		u'mp3',
 				'format':	u'NA',
 				'player_url':	None,
-                'description': description
-            })
+				'description': description
+			})
+		except UnavailableVideoError:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download video')
 
 class PostProcessor(object):
 	"""Post Processor class.
@@ -3966,6 +3972,7 @@ def gen_extractors():
 		EscapistIE(),
 		CollegeHumorIE(),
 		XVideosIE(),
+        SoundcloudIE(),
 
 		GenericIE()
 	]