MPaD
Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists. MPD is designed for integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. It’s a great solution to link a headless computer system to your audio installation.
The iPad makes for an ideal companion to MPD with the introduction of MPaD. An intuitive and great looking interface makes it very easy to browse through a large collection of songs, and find the album or song that you want to hear.
MPaD will be available shortly from the AppStore for $2.99 / €2.39. MPoD (which can also be used on an iPad) is and will remain free.
The following features are available from MPaD:
- Connects to your MPD server over TCP/IP.
- Automatically find MPD servers that make themselves know via Bonjour/Zeroconf.
- Supports the use of a password for making a connection to the server.
- Store multiple connection profiles.
- Fast application startup.
- Cover art from Amazon or local http server.
- Volume control.
- Move to previous, next song.
- Move to any song in active playlist.
- Edit the active playlist (move tracks, delete tracks).
- Seek in song.
- Toggle random, repeat.
- List of artists with drilldown to albums and songs.
- Option to hide artists that only appear on compilation albums.
- List of albums with drilldown to songs.
- Option to group songs into albums based on server directory.
- List of songs, which also displays artist and album for each song.
- All lists are searchable.
- List of all playlists.
- Save the active playlist into a saved playlist.
- Choice between ‘add to active playlist’ or ‘replace active playlist’.
- Support for last.fm.
- Full iOS4 compatibility including background operation.
- Works well with Mopidy (mpd like Spotify player).
Check-out a 2-minute screencast that shows MPaD in action, or have a look at some screenshots below:
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I think I’ve tried every setting to get M PAD to find local cover art. I’ve used DB Poweramp to rip everything and the art is listed in all the folders as “jpeg”, but if I turn off the cover art search for Amazon or Discogs, then I get no cover art at all appearing. It’s like John says, it’s ignoring the Folder.jpeg files.
It’s playing the muisc I select so it is connecting. In the “Local Cover Art” section, what should my settings be for, URL / Cover Filename / Liner Notes Filename???
Should the URL be the same as my “Server” name? I have the Cover Filename as “folder.jpeg”
I’m really frustrated and don’t know what to do?? I bought an iPAd to control the Bryston BDP player and view cover art.
Hope you have further advice or a fix for this!
Thanks,
Gary
Berrie
I’m using the current version 1.6.3 by the way
Jim
Love this app!
please check it is bug or not.
When request album jacket, uri-encode is something wring. just found that “&” is not converted to “&”.
eg) artist name is “John, Paul & Mike”,album name is same as artist name in embed tag data (file is .flac).
and settings for jacket, URL:”http:192.168.1.x/mpd”, filename: “jacket.jpg”
when I pushed “reload cover” button in MPaD, request is “http://192.168.1.x/mpd/John,%20Paul%20&%20Mike/xxxxxx/jacket.jpg” in my server(apache 2.x) access log.
Hi Berrie
Some further guidance on my earlier post below.
It seems to be a continuing problem /bug where data is not completely refreshed or inconsistent after the local cache and database is updated. As i’m getting some local album art but not all. Sometimes i check the next day and it has appeared, sometimes not – so i now have about 20 albums which have not updated with local cover art:
set as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/music and “folder.jpg” in the connection screen/set up on mpad and named folder.jpg in the same folder where the tracks reside
FYI – iPad version 1 and firmware: 4.2.1
Hi Berrie
Love your app! A few questions for you please:
1. Cache refresh – i had been adding albums and then clicking 1) Refresh local cache and then 2) Update and the new album/ update would be displyed immediately. Last two days however this isn’t happening – instead nothing happens and then i check it 10 minutes or a few hours later and it has appeared. My collection is only about 4,000 songs. Any ideas?
2. I just did the Songs in the Key of Life album (Stevie Wonder) and i got the two album covers for the 2 CD’s and a third album, same name – but with no artist and no contents ????
so my album view is littered with album entries with zero contents – Appreciate any assistance on this.
3. Finally – despite repeated attempts i cannot get local cover art working – I’ve set up the URL xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/music, (on apache server) entered “folder.jpg” as the file name, ensured there is a cover art pic called folder.jpg in the same directory as the album songs but i get nothing in the album view; to add to the confusion, sometimes I get art associated with the song in song view.
Again, appreciate any guidance here – your app is awesome!
Jim
Hi Berrie:
Can you tell us how to use the liner notes feature? What file types are supported? How do you display the liner notes in MPad (I have v1.6.3)?
I’ve already got the local cover art working, so my Apache server is OK.
Thanks.
Hi Mike.
Perhaps the liner notes feature is as same as cover art.
My way to get liner notes is:
1. put your liner notes file in the directory where music and cover art file are,
2. touch the jacket till submenu appears.
3. tap “show line notes” in submenu.
Supported file types (just I found) : jpeg, pdf, html with css, txt.
…maybe file types iOS support natively are OK, i Think.
hope that this info is useful for you.
Thanks…mPad is great………..;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APwDFS6NK7Y&feature=youtu.be
I’m trying to connect from different subnet to nmt without success.
I can ping the nmt and use other apps to connect (NMT Remote).
Does MPaD only allow connection within same subnet?
You should be able to connect to a different subnet if you enter the ip-address manually (I used it across the internet as well). I think automatic discovery currently only works on the local subnet.
I have never been able to get mPad to read my cover art that is stored in the same directory as each album. I’m using this on my iPad with a Bryston BDP player. I’ve used the scratch drive feature of the BDP and it reads the cover art no problem and displays them for it’s own use on my PC, but mPad seems to always be retrieving art from Amazon and others. I’ve tried playing around with different directories to store my music and I’m pretty sure I have everything configured properly, but still no cover art showing up for all albums.
I’m storing my cover art with the filename ‘Folder.jpg’ as instructed.
Any ideas on what may be wrong??
Wayne.
Stupid question, but do you actually have a web server running for your music folders?
I have all of my music stored on a hard drive that is plugged into the back of my Bryston BDP. My BDP is networked through a router that allows the iPad to communicate with it. When you ask if I’m running a web server for my music folders, I would assume that this is considered a server, but maybe I’m doing this wrong??
I have the same problem with an Auraliti PK100 server. It looks as if it just ignores the Folder.jpg files.
I believe the Bryston runs a web server, for the Auraliti I don’t know. If the player does have a web server, you need to configure it in MPaD under ‘Local Cover Art’ under the connection settings.
I’d suggest checking the details with the supplier of the Bryston / Auraliti.