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Reputation: 21

Youtube-DL AUDIO-ONLY Playlist

I want to download an AUDIO-ONLY playlist using youtube-dl. I've got the basics down. My version of youtube-dl is up to date, and the command I'm using is:

youtube-dl -x --extract-audio --yes-playlist --playlist-start 1 --playlist-end 18 \
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRHoSXxTpgI&index=1&list=OLAK5uy_lowZyOuAZVs41vEtzV6e0KU8Iue1YQlzg

But it keeps getting stuck on

Deleting original file [filename] (pass -k to keep)

Github doesn't seem to be of any help: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/12570

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 11014

Answers (2)

kgSW.de
kgSW.de

Reputation: 11

-x = extract audio only
-i = ignore errors (skip unavailable files)

use only the 'list=...' part, delete the other parameters from copied URL
default is first to last

youtube-dl -ix https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=...

for individual tracks add e.g. --playlist-items 4,7-9

see also: github/ytdl-org: output template examples

Upvotes: 1

anon
anon

Reputation:

The ampersand (&) is a special character in most shells, advising the shell to run the command so far in the background. This should be plainly visible in the first lines after the command execution, which will likely say something like

[1] 17156
[2] 17157

These is your shell telling you the process ID of the new background processes.

You must escape ampersands with a backslash or quotes, like this:

youtube-dl -x --yes-playlist --playlist-start 1 --playlist-end 18 \
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRHoSXxTpgI&index=1&list=OLAK5uy_lowZyOuAZVs41vEtzV6e0KU8Iue1YQlzg'

--extract-audio is the same as -x, and thus can be deleted.

For more information, see the youtube-dl FAQ.

Upvotes: 2

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