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Comment on MPoD by Linux and iPhone application solutions

Linux and iPhone application solutions — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:01:30 +0000

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Comment on MPoD by Berrie

Berrie — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:10:32 +0000

@Anders: touches are not always recognized smoothly, this has to do with the frequent checking with the server that MPoD does. I’ll have a look at improving the responsiveness in a future version.

The output request is added to the list.

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Comment on MPoD by Anders

Anders — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:20:49 +0000

Thank you very much for a great app. However I seem to have some slight problems with the repsonse of a touch. I have to press the buttons many times (play, pause, volume up/down etc.) before the app picks up the touch and sends the command. Am I the only one experiencing this?
A little feature request: Could you enumerate the configured “outputs” from MPD and make a function to enable/disable each output from within MPOD? I have speakers in different rooms, and ir would be nice to be able to control from which room(s) the sound comes. Thanks in advance.

Comment on MPoD by bTo

bTo — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:40:08 +0000

Thanks for your reply, Berrie. In that case, would it be possible to obtain the current source code so that I can make some additions to it (and modifications for my own taste). I would really appreciate it and could contribute with patches if ever you’re interested in including any enhancements that I make to your great program.

Thanks

Comment on MPoD by Berrie

Berrie — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:18:27 +0000

I like your suggestion for replace/append, unfortunately that space has just been taken by a ‘refresh’ button that is introduced in the new version (because data gets cached locally for performance reasons).

I’ve gotten some new ideas on creating space on the ‘now playing window’ that I’m going to look into in the coming days. That would allow to put in some of the requested functions.

Comment on MPoD by Nicolas

Nicolas — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:01:22 +0000

The expected benefit of the bonjour support would be that you don’t need a static ip-address (for music server’s that have their ip-adresses from a DHCP for less configuration). Anyway, I’d appreciate it.

Cool that you think of the artist info in the playlist. Probably the line get’s to long; Maybe the there’s a way apple suggests to solve that (tooltips?)… Or it could be on two lines like in the song selection.

Shortcut for replace/append: I’d suggest to put a button, that could be in a ‘pressed’ state or ‘not pressed’ state and put it on the right side of the title bar (where you find ‘artist’, ‘album’ and ’songs’ and the search-button). The search-button could be moved to the left side.

Repeat/Random: For me it would be o.k. to put that even into the settings screen with a slider.

Comment on MPoD by Berrie

Berrie — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:15:49 +0000

@Nicolas:

- Bonjour support is possible, but I don’t see this adding too much value so it goes to the bottom of the list.
- Adding artist info I’ll take into account.
- Shortcut for replace / append, can you describe how you envision that? The screen is already pretty full.
- Buttons for repeat / random, those would have been there already if I had decent icons for them.

Comment on MPoD by Nadeem

Nadeem — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:06:29 +0000

Hey, I’ve been having some problems with MPoD on my ipod touch. Everytime I try to connect to my computer, I would test the connection and it would say “Failed.”

Is there a FAQ anywhere?

Comment on MPoD by Nicolas

Nicolas — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:28:13 +0000

Thanks for writing and providing that application. It’s almost perfekt; fast enough and quite enough features while very handy to use. Anyway I have some suggestions to improve it:
- How about adding Bonjour support to find the mpd server? Is that difficult to develop?
- The playlist for “now playing” is not very helpful when playing album compilations. Some artist info in brackets after the songtitle would be nice.
- Shortcut for replace or append playlist would be nice
- Buttons for mpd “repeat” or “random” mode would be nice as well
Some comments on that I would appreciate! Thanks.