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I have an arch linux based ditro and I'm trying to open up an audio file (mp3 and flac files) in the terminal using the following command:
$ mpv song.flac
If the audio file doesn't contain any album art, it opens up in the terminal and starts playing like I want it to. When the audio file does have album art though, it opens up a new window displaying the album art while playing the song. Is there a command I can enter or a setting I can change so I can play my audio files in the terminal without a new window being opened to display the album art?
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To play a single audio file, just navigate to it (or enter the full path) and type its name after mpv to play it. You can control mpv with keyboard shortcuts; for example, pressing Space pauses a song, arrow keys rewind it backward or forward, and / and * keys control the volume.
Just go to the folder containing the MP3 files that you want to play and type mpg123 *. mp3. You can also load a playlist file and use the *-z* option on the command line to shuffle the tracks you want to play.
mpv comes with a flag to disable the display of cover art:
$ mpv --audio-display=no song.flac
does just what you want.
See the relevant documentation here.
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If you browse the "Video" section of the man page for mpv, you will see this very near the top:
−−no−video
Do not play video. With some demuxers this may not work. In those cases you can try −−vo=null instead.
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