Resuming playlist download with '%(autonumber)s

[lahwaacz]

Please add option to start autonumbering from different number than 1. If you download some playlist with '-o "%(autonumber)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"' option, resuming download is impossible, because the autonumber counter is reset to 1.

[Plaque-fcc]

Please add option to start autonumbering from different number than

1. If you download some playlist with '-o "%(autonumber)s -
   %(title)s.%(ext)s"' option, resuming download is impossible, because
   the autonumber counter is reset to 1.

Is it true that resume is not available? Have you actually tried
'--continue' option along with these?

[lahwaacz]

I think you don't understand - resuming download of single video works fine, as well as resuming playlist download with '-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"' option, but this is not possible with '-o "%(autonumber)s -
%(title)s.%(ext)s"' and '--playlist-start N' options because after resume the autonumber counter is reset to 1 whereas it should be N.

[Tailszefox]

Hm, everything seems to work for me as far as I can tell:

> youtube-dl --max-quality 17 -c -o "%(autonumber)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC21A9EC26E0DC3D5"
[youtube] PL C21A9EC26E0DC3D5: Downloading page #1
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] EwCdtFR1pfI: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] EwCdtFR1pfI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] EwCdtFR1pfI: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: 00001 - Ira Magaziner | 14 March 2011 | ICANN 40 | San Francisco.mp4
[download] 100.0% of 13.27M at   32.39k/s ETA 00:00
[youtube] yOhGkULfXiA: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] yOhGkULfXiA: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] yOhGkULfXiA: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: 00002 - Vint Cerf | 14 March 2011 | ICANN 40 | San Francisco.mp4
[download] 100.0% of 7.96M at   34.98k/s ETA 00:00
[youtube] 1AJltzuPpOw: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 1AJltzuPpOw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 1AJltzuPpOw: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: 00003 - Lawrence Strickling, NTIA | 14 March 2011 | ICANN 40 | San Francisco.mp4
[download]  16.0% of 10.71M at   33.53k/s ETA 04:34^C
ERROR: Interrupted by user

> youtube-dl --max-quality 17 -c -o "%(autonumber)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC21A9EC26E0DC3D5"
[youtube] PL C21A9EC26E0DC3D5: Downloading page #1
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] EwCdtFR1pfI: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] EwCdtFR1pfI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] EwCdtFR1pfI: Extracting video information
[download] 00001 - Ira Magaziner | 14 March 2011 | ICANN 40 | San Francisco.mp4 has already been downloaded
[youtube] yOhGkULfXiA: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] yOhGkULfXiA: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] yOhGkULfXiA: Extracting video information
[download] 00002 - Vint Cerf | 14 March 2011 | ICANN 40 | San Francisco.mp4 has already been downloaded
[youtube] 1AJltzuPpOw: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] 1AJltzuPpOw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] 1AJltzuPpOw: Extracting video information
[download] Resuming download at byte 1802069
[download] Destination: 00003 - Lawrence Strickling, NTIA | 14 March 2011 | ICANN 40 | San Francisco.mp4
[download]  23.0% of 10.71M at   11.52k/s ETA 12:13

What behaviour were you expecting, exactly?

[Plaque-fcc]

After restarting the counter will be reset and again start from the
same value it started before. If you don't explicitly move the range in
the list to download, you'll have youtube-dl checked all them from the
beginning, found what's incomplete and resume from the one. If no, tell
me the magic that should store the «old N» to craft the «next N» next
time?

What's wrong?

[lahwaacz]

Sorry, my mistake. I thought I had to explicitly use '--playlist-start N' option.

[Plaque-fcc]

@lahwaacz Hey, thank you for your curiousity, anyway. As for me, I discovered Issues and Wikies at GitHub quite a good place to exchange and confirm our experience. ;D