diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 14c38bc..a82bf79 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 **A tool that synchronizes your YouTube playlists and other music providers with your Cloud Storage like Nextcloud as MP3s.**
 
 ### What does it do? ✨
-- 🎵 Downloads your music from YouTube, SoundCloud [and many more](http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html)
+- 🎵 Downloads your music from YouTube, SoundCloud [and many more](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites.md)
 - 😁 Automatically monitors your playlists for newly added music
 - 🔄 Converts video files to the highest quality MP3 possible
 -  ☁  Uploads your music as MP3 to your Cloud Storage account. Supports all Cloud providers with WebDAV compatibility: Nextcloud, ownCloud, pCloud, STACK [and many more](https://community.cryptomator.org/t/webdav-urls-of-common-cloud-storage-services/75)
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Feel free to contribute, you can [submit issues here](https://github.com/thijsta
 
 ### Developer instructions 👩🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻
 System requirements: Have [Docker (Desktop or Engine)](https://www.docker.com/) installed on your system <br/>
-Techniques: [Python](https://www.python.org/), [Docker](https://www.docker.com/), [youtube-dl](https://youtube-dl.org/) and [WebDAV](http://www.webdav.org/)
+Techniques: [Python](https://www.python.org/), [Docker](https://www.docker.com/), [YT-DLP](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) and [WebDAV](http://www.webdav.org/)
 
 1. 🤠 Git clone the project with `git clone https://github.com/thijstakken/MusicService.git`
 2. 🐛 [Pick a issue from the list or create a new issue and use that one](https://github.com/thijstakken/MusicService/issues)
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 41a0a99..1c0f25f 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from re import L
-import youtube_dl
+from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
 import shutil
 import requests
 import os
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ def my_hook(d):
 # Configure YouTube DL options
 ydl_opts = {
     'writethumbnail': True,
+    'no_write_playlist_metafiles': True,                            # do not save playlist data, like playlist .png
     'format': 'bestaudio[asr<=44100]/best[asr<=44100]/bestaudio',   # using asr 44100 as max, this mitigates exotic compatibility issues with certain mediaplayers, and allow bestaudio as a fallback for direct mp3s
     'postprocessors': [{    
         'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',                                # use FFMPEG and only save audio
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ def my_hook(d):
     'simulate': False,                                              # to dry test the YT-DL, if set to True, it will skip the downloading. Can be True/False
     'cachedir': False,                                              # turn off caching, this should mitigate 403 errors which are commonly seen when downloading from Youtube
     'download_archive': './config/downloaded',                      # this will update the downloads file which serves as a database/archive for which songs have already been downloaded, so it don't downloads them again
-    'nocheckcertificate': True,                                     # mitigates YT-DL bug where it wrongly examins the server certificate, so therefore, ignore invalid certificates for now, to mitigate this bug
+    'nocheckcertificates': True,                                     # mitigates YT-DL bug where it wrongly examins the server certificate, so therefore, ignore invalid certificates for now, to mitigate this bug
 }
 
 # reads and saves playlist URL's in a list
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ def getPlaylistURLs():
 
 # downloads the playlists with the specified options in ydl_opts
 def downloadPlaylists(ydl_opts, lines):
-    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
+    with YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
                 ydl.download(lines)
 
 # creates directories in the cloud based on the local directory structure
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ff0c3aa..4490e28 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-youtube_dl==2021.12.17
+#youtube_dl==2021.12.17
+yt-dlp==2023.7.6
 python-dotenv
 #os
 requests