'list' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

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[debug] System config: []
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[kevinmarsden88]

I have encountered the same problem,when attempting to perform a download and extraction of audio.

The command and output used was

C:\Users\XX\Downloads>youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu18kV88OPk&list=PLIoba2FKuOvudx9uyzWt7cF07t8VuQUYi --extract-audio --ffmpeg-location C:\Users\Kevin\Downloads\ffmpeg-20171102-d5995c5-win64-static\bin
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu18kV88OPk']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.10.29
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.15063
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] yu18kV88OPk: Downloading webpage
[youtube] yu18kV88OPk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] yu18kV88OPk: Extracting video information
[youtube] yu18kV88OPk: Downloading MPD manifest
[debug] Default format spec: best/bestvideo+bestaudio
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r3---sn-8vq5jvh15-2gte.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?key=yt6&mime=video%2Fwebm&gir=yes&itag=43&signature=6981458E7CD1C2995129E16C623C93502BD1EC69.6D4277B58AB738884FF9DE5EE9238C1F3CE08972&clen=4241409&dur=0.000&ipbits=0&expire=1509667382&ratebypass=yes&requiressl=yes&ip=41.0.165.119&ms=au&sparams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&mv=m&mt=1509645691&pl=24&id=o-AElmf-KXSy1aKqFGEZ5F97NIc95uDEBZwYw9814sXtVg&mn=sn-8vq5jvh15-2gte&mm=31&lmt=1298878154002809&source=youtube&initcwndbps=301250&ei=1l37WcnYI4SSV7KUkPgC'
[download] Potatoheadz - Narcotic (Radio Edit)-yu18kV88OPk.webm has already been downloaded
[download] 100% of 4.04MiB
'list' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I was able to subsequently extract the audio using FFmpeg,output as follows

C:\Users\XX\Downloads\ffmpeg-20171102-d5995c5-win64-static\bin>ffmpeg.exe -i ./"Potatoheadz - Narcotic (Radio Edit)-yu18kV88OPk.webm" -vn -acodec copy ./output.ogg
ffmpeg version N-88514-gd5995c531d Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 7.2.0 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libmfx
libavutil 56. 0.100 / 56. 0.100
libavcodec 58. 1.100 / 58. 1.100
libavformat 58. 0.102 / 58. 0.102
libavdevice 58. 0.100 / 58. 0.100
libavfilter 7. 0.101 / 7. 0.101
libswscale 5. 0.101 / 5. 0.101
libswresample 3. 0.101 / 3. 0.101
libpostproc 55. 0.100 / 55. 0.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from './Potatoheadz - Narcotic (Radio Edit)-yu18kV88OPk.webm':
Metadata:
encoder : google
Duration: 00:03:43.84, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 151 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: vp8, yuv420p(progressive), 480x360, SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc (default)
Stream #0:1: Audio: vorbis, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
Output #0, ogg, to './output.ogg':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf58.0.102
Stream #0:0: Audio: vorbis, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf58.0.102
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:1 -> #0:0 (copy)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
size= 2650kB time=00:03:43.44 bitrate= 97.2kbits/s speed=2.79e+003x
video:0kB audio:2622kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:4kB muxing overhead: 1.065937%

The output from youtube-dl -U was

C:\Users\XX\Downloads>youtube-dl -U
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2017.10.29)

[dstftw]

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#video-url-contains-an-ampersand-and-im-getting-some-strange-output-1-2839-or-v-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command