(22-09-2019, 05:03 PM)Halfwit Wrote: I actually used mpv as my front end to mpd for a long while, but went to ogg123/mpd123 out of frustration with it having to draw a window. I'd simply "hide" the thing, but at the end of the day I never needed a graphical client.

You could look at mpvc for this. It uses mpv's socket feature to add and control files added to the queue. I'm the author, but there are a couple of other implementations around too.

You could also use a mpv profile to quote --no-video in it to.