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-rw-r--r--yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py b/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
index d214a6449..33b4fb3ca 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -2557,7 +2557,7 @@ class YoutubeDL:
formats = self._get_formats(info_dict)
# Backward compatibility with InfoExtractor._sort_formats
- field_preference = formats[0].pop('__sort_fields', None)
+ field_preference = (formats or [{}])[0].pop('__sort_fields', None)
if field_preference:
info_dict['_format_sort_fields'] = field_preference