Download an entire channel does not work anymore

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$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat/videos -v 
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['-o', '%(title)s.%(ext)s']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat/videos', '-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.27.1
[debug] Python version 3.5.4 - Linux-4.12.0-1-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3.3, ffprobe 3.3.3, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:user] caseyneistat: Downloading channel page
[youtube:user] caseyneistat: Downloading page #1
[download] Downloading playlist: caseyneistat
[youtube:user] playlist caseyneistat: Downloading 0 videos
[download] Finished downloading playlist: caseyneistat

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I use to watch channel in shuffle mode with mpv and the command mpv --ytdl --shuffle https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat/videos. It doesn't work anymore. I first opened a bug report in mpv github and it seemes the bug is related to youtube-dl. Indeed, downloading the entire channel doesn't work.

[dkl3]

I have also had this issue. I'd appreciate a fix from anyone, thanks.

[YoshiEnVerde]

Me too... AFAIK, this issue started around 3 days ago.

[chtk]

This has been reported before. See #14083. A solution has been posted there as well.