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.


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.
This is why you shouldn’t use the distro package version. Use pip.
I’ve used both and still nothing
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