Here's the one-liner I use for downloading playlists in parallel: \n yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print id $(cat dl-target-playlist) | parallel yt-dlp -x --wait-for-video 3 --download-archive ~/archive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={} /n I'm not sure if it's faster than the default yt-dlp in parallel but with this script you just have to modify the file named dl-target-playlist.