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
Location may impact access to YT, yes, but I got 2 different results just now running yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCjD5qVV_U&list=RDLiCjD5qVV_U
stopped at end of 1st playlist vid
with playlist opened & paused in browser, continued through playlist until interrupted
(Although you probably shouldn’t. Using whipper to rip your own CDs to accurate FLAC is much more satisfying. On some of these videos, you have additional into/outro/ad stuff, some are just shitty quality.)
Using or not using --cookies-from-browser firefox made no difference here (it’s mostly needed for private videos you have access to). I could also just copy a playlist link without first opening it. Seems to have been the missing quoting.
Use single quotes though, so the shell won’t try to expand anything, like with double quotes!
But I got different results from the same yt-dlp command only several minutes apart, 1st stalled, 2nd with playlist loaded in browser continued until interrupted, only difference was loading the playlist in my browser, the actual output is in my post above.
At any rate, enclosing the URL in quotes seems to be needed in some cases so chars like & don’t get interpreted.
