youtube-dl mp3 download error [duplicate]

it has been a while I used ubuntu for my daily driver because of me needing VST files in music production, recently picked up this thinkpad.

Anyways, whenever I try to download something from youtube this error shows up

ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 905, in _decrypt_signature video_id, player_url, s File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 797, in _extract_signature_function raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'/yts/jsbin/player-vflAmElk-/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on . Make sure you are using the latest version; see on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. (caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'/yts/jsbin/player-vflAmElk-/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on . Make sure you are using the latest version; see on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.",)); please report this issue on . Make sure you are using the latest version; see on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

I had been using the same code my past using ubuntu 12.04. what do I miss?

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 <url>

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Hanging around for the solution pip installation solved the issue

sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl