diff --git a/pdm.lock b/pdm.lock
index d27ab83..dab350d 100644
--- a/pdm.lock
+++ b/pdm.lock
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 groups = ["default", "all", "dev"]
 strategy = ["cross_platform"]
 lock_version = "4.4.1"
-content_hash = "sha256:17fdf74bf4b2980c66c106cebcb936921e671e8adaeb2f2e95d95f255704aa38"
+content_hash = "sha256:73f93e2fcfc5fc5af9acfdc9604b9f27d3eb5d9c6012f600c671523c2f78bf4c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aiocache"
@@ -80,6 +80,16 @@ files = [
     {file = "attrs-23.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:935dc3b529c262f6cf76e50877d35a4bd3c1de194fd41f47a2b7ae8f19971f30"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "boltons"
+version = "24.0.0"
+requires_python = ">=3.7"
+summary = "When they're not builtins, they're boltons."
+files = [
+    {file = "boltons-24.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:9618695a6ec4f50412e7072e5d78910a00b4111d0b9b549e4a3d60bc321e7807"},
+    {file = "boltons-24.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:7153feccaea1ff2e1472f68d4b57fadb796a2ee49d29f638f1c9cd8fb5ebd916"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "class-doc"
 version = "0.2.6"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0aedf38..4c7aaf9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pytomlpp>=1.0.13",
     "apischema>=0.18.1",
     "yarl>=1.9.4",
+    "boltons>=24.0.0",
 ]
 readme = "README.md"
 
diff --git a/src/mpd_now_playable/config/load.py b/src/mpd_now_playable/config/load.py
index e74aa04..9e79c09 100644
--- a/src/mpd_now_playable/config/load.py
+++ b/src/mpd_now_playable/config/load.py
@@ -1,12 +1,32 @@
+from collections.abc import Mapping
 from os import environ
+from typing import TypeVar
 
 from apischema import deserialize
+from boltons.iterutils import remap
 from pytomlpp import load
 from xdg_base_dirs import xdg_config_home
 
 from .model import Config
 
-__all__ = "loadConfig"
+__all__ = ("loadConfig",)
+K = TypeVar("K")
+V = TypeVar("V")
+
+
+# Sadly this is the kind of function that's incredibly easy to type statically
+# in something like TypeScript, but apparently impossible to type statically in
+# Python. Basically the TypeScript typing looks like this:
+#   type OmitNulls<T> = {[K in keyof T]?: OmitNulls<NonNullable<T[K]>>};
+#   function withoutNulls<T>(data: T): OmitNulls<T>;
+# But the Python type system (currently?) lacks mapped and index types, so you
+# can't recurse over an arbitrary type's structure as OmitNulls<T> does, as
+# well as conditional types so you can't easily define a "filtering" utility
+# type like NonNullable<T>. Python's type system also doesn't infer a
+# dictionary literal as having a structural type by default in the way
+# TypeScript does, of course, so that part wouldn't work anyway.
+def withoutNones(data: Mapping[K, V | None]) -> Mapping[K, V]:
+	return remap(data, lambda p, k, v: v is not None)
 
 
 def loadConfigFromFile() -> Config:
@@ -17,14 +37,14 @@ def loadConfigFromFile() -> Config:
 
 
 def loadConfigFromEnv() -> Config:
-	port = int(environ["MPD_PORT"]) if "MPD_PORT" in environ else None
-	host = environ.get("MPD_HOST")
-	password = environ.get("MPD_PASSWORD")
-	cache = environ.get("MPD_NOW_PLAYABLE_CACHE")
+	port = int(environ.pop("MPD_PORT")) if "MPD_PORT" in environ else None
+	host = environ.pop("MPD_HOST", None)
+	password = environ.pop("MPD_PASSWORD", None)
+	cache = environ.pop("MPD_NOW_PLAYABLE_CACHE", None)
 	if password is None and host is not None and "@" in host:
 		password, host = host.split("@", maxsplit=1)
 	data = {"cache": cache, "mpd": {"port": port, "host": host, "password": password}}
-	return deserialize(Config, data)
+	return deserialize(Config, withoutNones(data))
 
 
 def loadConfig() -> Config:
diff --git a/stubs/boltons/iterutils.pyi b/stubs/boltons/iterutils.pyi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b56e0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stubs/boltons/iterutils.pyi
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+from collections.abc import Callable, Mapping
+from typing import TypeAlias, TypeVar
+
+# Apparently you need Python 3.13 for type var defaults to work. But since this
+# is just a stub file, it's okay if they aren't supported at runtime.
+KIn = TypeVar("KIn")
+KOut = TypeVar("KOut", default=KIn)
+VIn = TypeVar("VIn")
+VOut = TypeVar("VOut", default=VIn)
+
+Path: TypeAlias = tuple[KIn, ...]
+
+# remap() is Complicated and really difficult to define a type for, so I'm not
+# surprised the boltons package doesn't try to type it for you. This particular
+# type declaration works fine for my use of the function, but it's actually
+# vastly more flexible than that - it'll accept any iterable as the root, not
+# just mappings, and you can provide "enter" and "exit" callables to support
+# arbitrary data structures.
+def remap(
+	root: Mapping[KIn, VIn],
+	visit: Callable[[Path[KIn], KIn, VIn], tuple[KOut, VOut] | bool],
+	reraise_visit: bool = False,
+) -> Mapping[KOut, VOut]: ...