Hotness order has been removed from Soundclouds API

Question

I saw the possibility of ordering hotness in some tutorials for the SoundCloud API. For example, in PHP:

// create a client object with your app credentials $client = new Services_Soundcloud('APP KEY'); // find all sounds of buskers licensed under 'creative commons share alike' $tracks = $client->get('tracks', array('genre' => json_encode($tag), 'limit' => '20', 'order' => 'hotness')); // array('q' => 'dubstep')); $tracks=json_decode($tracks); die(var_dump($tracks)); 

However, this returns a list of tracks with 0 games, and there is no mention of this sorting in the SoundClouds documentation:

http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/sdks#methods

Answer 1

Yes, the order parameter has recently been deleted. From the API Blog April 16, 2013:

Soon, GET requests to the endpoint / tracks will ignore the order parameter and, by default, will be ordered by creation date.
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In the meantime, you can still approximate the result sets previously returned by specifying order=hotness by manually sorting the returned tracks with a combination of favoritings_count and playback_count .

http://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/removing-hotness-param