MPV Player Control Scripts

February 25, 2025

I use Xmonad tiling window manager and MPV is my main player for music, videos, and Internet streams. Tiling window managers are great for hotkeys lovers, and I am one of them. I have a lot of key bindings which allow me to launch applications, make screenshots, control window positions, use so called scratchpads (special workspaces for often used applications).

And some time ago I decided to build a set of scripts which would allow me to control MPV player from the keyboard. I wanted to be able to play/pause, stop, seek, open folers, files and internet radio, etc. Another feature of my scripts is presentation of the current track information into the status bar. I use Xmobar, but you can use any status bar you like.

Here is a small demo I recorded.

If you are interested in the scripts, you can check the Github repository

Feel free to use them and modify for your needs. I hope you will find them useful.