diff --git a/libs/ardour/soundcloud_upload.cc b/libs/ardour/soundcloud_upload.cc
index 3c05b5aa78..291e4d2fe6 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/soundcloud_upload.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/soundcloud_upload.cc
@@ -338,8 +338,6 @@ SoundcloudUploader:: ~SoundcloudUploader()
 void
 SoundcloudUploader::setcUrlOptions()
 {
-	// basic init for curl
-	curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);
 	// some servers don't like requests that are made without a user-agent field, so we provide one
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");
 	// setup curl error buffer