Youtube Playlist fails

[ericMedeiros93]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

WINDOWS: 

C:\Users\ericm\Desktop\Chinobix>youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-qw1yV5yk&list=RD1b-qw1yV5yk&index=1
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-qw1yV5yk']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.07.07
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.10586
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-80924-gb450b82, ffprobe N-80924-gb450b82
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] 1b-qw1yV5yk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] 1b-qw1yV5yk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 1b-qw1yV5yk: Extracting video information
[youtube] 1b-qw1yV5yk: Downloading MPD manifest
[download] Akeboshi - Wind-1b-qw1yV5yk.mp4 has already been downloaded and merged
'list' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'index' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

OS X:

Eric:Chinobix eric$ [debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-qw1yV5yk']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.07.07
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-15.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Trying to download a playlist from youtube yields the results above one Windows. Tried on 4 machines (two windows 10 pro, one windows 8.1 enterprise and one mac OS X 10.11). Downloading a single video works fine. On OS X youtube-dl get stuck on Downloading MPD manifest and hangs until I cancel it. youtube-dl and ffmpeg up to date on all machines.

[dstftw]

You have to either put the URL into quotes or manually escape all the special shell characters. Read FAQ entry for details.