yt-dlp won't download Youtube Music liked video's playlist (fedinsfw.app)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Just_Bob@fedinsfw.app to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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when I type in yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 -f bestaudio -o "%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "YOUR_PLAYLIST_URL" I get an error message saying youtube music not supported and then it switches over to Youtube to get the playlist I give access to my cookies so it can download e playlist but then I get error messages while it tries to download the playlist and nothing gets downloaded.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: it's youtube music that's the problem. I can download from youtube proper, but the problem is that songs that have a music video are substituted instead of the song file itself.

EDIT: I think I will just transfer my liked playlist to another playlist and download that.

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[-] muhyb@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

I cannot download anything via yt-dlp for a couple days too. Probably Google's shenanigans. yt-dlp got an update regarding this and it might not have hit your distro's repo yet. Shouldn't take long.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

This is why you shouldn't use the distro package version. Use pip.

[-] Just_Bob@fedinsfw.app 2 points 1 month ago

I've used both and still nothing

[-] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Ya I've seen a suspicious lapse in archivals on my system, figured something was up but usually only need to wait a week or two

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