'' is the URL to the YouTube playlist you want to download.This makes it so that in such cases, the entire playlist is still downloaded. This is useful because if you find a playlist on YouTube, click on a video from that playlist, then copy the URL and try to use youtube-dl / yt-dlp to download it without -yes-playlist, only one video will be downloaded, instead of the entire playlist. -yes-playlist makes it so if the URL refers to a video and a playlist, it still downloads the whole playlist.Without this (by default), youtube-dl /yt-dlp adds the video ID after the video name, which is not exactly pretty or useful in most cases
You could omit specifying the audio quality, in which case youtube-dl / yt-dlp will use the default "5" VBR quality So use "0" for best possible quality, but note that if the original quality is low, using "0" for the audio quality will cause an unnecessarily large file (which is not actually of high quality, since the source was low in quality). You can specify an exact bitrate, like 128K, 160K, etc., or a VBR quality value between 0 (best) and 9 (worst), with 5 being default.
REDDIT DOWNLOAD ENTIRE YOUTUBE PLAYLIST UPDATE
Since some Linux distributions tend to take a while until they update youtube-dl, I recommend removing the youtube-dl package installed from the repositories, and manually installing it as explained on the youtube-dl download page. youtube-dl stops working regularly due to changes to YouTube, so you'll want to have the latest version installed on your system. This article explains using youtube-dl / yt-dlp to download a YouTube playlist using the best available audio format, and convert it to MP3 (using FFmpeg, which youtube-dl / yt-dlp uses automatically for transcoding).įor this you'll need to have youtube-dl or yt-dlp and ffmpeg installed on your system.