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Using Youtube-dl to download a playlist and converting it to mp3
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youtube-dl.txt
youtube-dl -i --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" <url to playlist>
//replace diamond brackets < > with " " when pasting url
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For downloading multiple playlists from urls from a file (urls separated by new lines)

cat playlist_links.txt | xargs -n1 youtube-dl -i --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --add-metadata -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(track)s.%(ext)s'

See youtube-dl documentation here

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