MPV does all my local media playback — videos and music.

I start MPV with:

• --idle
• --input-ipc-server=~/.config/mpv/mpv.socket

Then, I use a small script, mpv-add, to enqueue into MPV’s runtime playlist. If nothing is already playing, it also starts playback.

This integrates cleanly with Emacs. From dired, I can m % flac$ RET to mark all flac files in the current directory, then hit C-. to run mpv-add on the marked files.

Inside MPV itself, C-p to opens a menu selector. From there I can jump to Playlist then twiddle the playlist or change playback position.

Final touch: MPRIS2 support. I can control MPV from the KDE panel or global media keys. No extra glue required.

MPV is my jukebox.

No complicated Rube Goldberg required.

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