Any way to download the contents of a youtube mix?

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I installed yt-dlp with yay yt-dlp & nothing more.

which yt-dlp
/usr/bin/yt-dlp

yt-dlp -U
Current version: stable@2025.03.31 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Latest version: stable@2025.04.30 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp

You may need a YouTube session for the process to continue, I’ve had this before too & again just minutes ago:

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCjD5qVV_U&list=RDLiCjD5qVV_U
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCjD5qVV_U
[youtube] LiCjD5qVV_U: Downloading webpage
...truncated for brevity...

Short answer: simply open your YT playlist link then pause playback & run the yt-dlp command again, my yt-dlp output from doing this just now:

yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCjD5qVV_U&list=RDLiCjD5qVV_U
[YoutubeYtBe] Extracting URL: https://youtu.be/LiCjD5qVV_U?list=RDLiCjD5qVV_U
[youtube:tab] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCjD5qVV_U&list=RDLiCjD5qVV_U&feature=youtu.be
[youtube:tab] Downloading playlist RDLiCjD5qVV_U - add --no-playlist to download just the video LiCjD5qVV_U
[youtube:tab] RDLiCjD5qVV_U: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Mix - I Ain't Mad At Cha
[youtube:tab] RDLiCjD5qVV_U page 1: Downloading API JSON
...truncated for brevity...
[download] Destination: I Ain't Mad At Cha [LiCjD5qVV_U].f616.mp4
[download] 100% of   21.00MiB in 00:00:09 at 2.21MiB/s
[download] Destination: I Ain't Mad At Cha [LiCjD5qVV_U].f251.webm
[download] 100% of    4.58MiB in 00:00:00 at 5.44MiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "I Ain't Mad At Cha [LiCjD5qVV_U].webm"
...truncated for brevity...
[download] Destination: All Eyez On Me [zgZ52M4a_R0].f616.mp4
[download] 100% of    7.41MiB in 00:00:03 at 2.06MiB/s
[download] Destination: All Eyez On Me [zgZ52M4a_R0].f251.webm
[download] 100% of    5.04MiB in 00:00:00 at 5.87MiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "All Eyez On Me [zgZ52M4a_R0].webm"
...truncated for brevity...
[download] Destination: Life Goes On [k11iUIQ5XbY].f616.mp4
[download]   1.7% of ~  20.96MiB at  226.43KiB/s ETA Unknown (frag 2/59)^C
ERROR: Interrupted by user

Note the difference in output from the same command run a few minutes apart, second run with the playlist opened & paused in the browser.

And yes, please do be kind to people who offer help freely of their own will, lest you discourage them. Getting an outcome is a process & one in which there are often learning opportunities for those involved & others who read later on, I learn a lot from the EnOS forum :smiley: