diff --git a/app/worker.py b/app/worker.py
index bfac00b..56d2237 100644
--- a/app/worker.py
+++ b/app/worker.py
@@ -38,17 +38,42 @@ def sanitize(name):
     return re.sub(r'[\\/:"*?<>|]+', ' ', name).strip()
 
 def yt_dlp(url, outdir):
+    # 1) Normalize YouTube Music URLs to standard YouTube
+    yurl = url
+    if 'music.youtube.com' in yurl:
+        yurl = yurl.replace('music.youtube.com', 'www.youtube.com')
+
     outtmpl = str(outdir / "%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s")
-    cmd = [
+
+    base_cmd = [
         "yt-dlp", "-o", outtmpl,
         "-f", "bv*+ba/best",
         "-x", "--audio-format", "m4a",
         "--write-thumbnail",
         "--no-playlist", "--no-warnings", "--restrict-filenames",
-        url
     ]
-    subprocess.check_call(cmd)
-    media = list(outdir.rglob("*.[mM][pP]4")) + list(outdir.rglob("*.mkv")) + list(outdir.rglob("*.m4a")) + list(outdir.rglob("*.mp3"))
+
+    # 3) Optional cookies (set YTDLP_COOKIES=/path/to/cookies.txt in .env and mount it)
+    cookies_path = os.getenv("YTDLP_COOKIES", "").strip()
+    if cookies_path:
+        base_cmd += ["--cookies", cookies_path]
+
+    # Primary attempt
+    try:
+        subprocess.check_call(base_cmd + [yurl])
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+        # 2) Retry with Android client + mobile UA
+        retry_cmd = base_cmd + [
+            "--extractor-args", "youtube:player_client=android",
+            "--user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; SM-G973F) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0 Mobile Safari/537.36",
+            yurl,
+        ]
+        subprocess.check_call(retry_cmd)
+
+    media = (list(outdir.rglob("*.[mM][pP]4")) +
+             list(outdir.rglob("*.mkv")) +
+             list(outdir.rglob("*.m4a")) +
+             list(outdir.rglob("*.mp3")))
     return sorted(media, key=lambda p: p.stat().st_mtime)[-1:]
 
 def transcribe(media_path: Path):