January 21, 2012, 10:07 am
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v1.6.3 for both MPoD and MPaD is available from the AppStore now. The most important change that many people have asked for is better handling of compilations. The apps now use the album-artist tag to group songs, and will also properly display compilations under the artist ‘Various Artists’ or whatever you have named it. Complete release notes:
- Feature: Added proper handling of compilations by using the album-artist tag to group songs and display ‘Various Artists’ albums.
- Feature: Made artist capitalization optional.
- Feature: Show track details in browse mode.
- Feature: Add ‘back to top’ button in browse mode.
- Feature: Show art and number of albums in artist view (MPoD only).
- Feature: Popup to quickly change between connections (MPaD only).
- UI Change: Improved voice-over labels in playlist screen (MPoD only).
- Bugfix: Fixed bug where data was not refreshed or inconsistent after the local cache was updated.
- Bugfix: Move to discogs v2.0 api for cover art retrieval.
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November 22, 2011, 8:54 pm
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MPaD v1.6.2 is available from the AppStore. This is a bugfix release:
- Bugfix: solve cover art retrieval from Amazon.
- Bugfix: solve filename handling for liner notes.
- Bugfix: solve slow search performance.
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November 22, 2011, 8:38 pm
Short relevant updates about the Katoemba Software will be posted on Twitter from now on: http://twitter.com/#!/katoemba.
October 14, 2011, 3:22 pm
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MPoD & MPaD v1.6.1 are available from the AppStore. These new versions contain numerous new features, enhancements and bugfixes:
iPhone & iPad
- Feature: add long press gestures for iOS 3.
- Feature: capitalize all artist names to prevent duplicates.
- Feature: use hostname for bonjour based servers instead of ip-address.
- Feature: Added the possibility to start from another app or website via mpod://mpod.
- Feature: Added possibility to play complete library from ‘Edit playlist’ action sheet.
- Feature: Added actions for long press on genre lists.
- UI Change: Added progress indicator back into playlist view.
- UI Change: Immediate search while typing.
- Bugfix: Improved stability of local cache reload.
- Bugfix: Fix problem where connection to mpd server was frequently lost.
- Bugfix: correctly pick up local cover art for albums with 2 artists.
- Generic: tested with iOS 5.
iPad
- Feature: add track time labels.
- Feature: add possibility to show liner notes for an album (if available on the server).
- UI Change: Don’t automatically load current artist when switching to info view.
- Bugfix: only show ‘playlist’ popup once, even if edit button is hit multiple times.
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