yt-dlp – how to download an audio track as an mp3 and start playing in vlc once downloaded

I was wondering how to set up yt-dlp to download an audio track from Youtube as an Mp3, then play it in vlc once it was finally downloaded. After a bit of playing I found this command works well with yt-dlp.

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 -P "/home/andy/Desktop/" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --exec "vlc {}" [HREF]

Normally, though for videos I don’t want to download and save the full video as audio, so I use this command to stream the video to vlc.

yt-dlp -f b --simulate  --embed-subs --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang "en.*" --exec video:'vlc --play-and-exit --meta-title=%(title)#q %(url)#q' [HREF]