MPoD
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 iPhone or iPod Touch makes for an ideal companion to MPD with the introduction of MPoD. An intuitive and great looking interface makes it very easy to browse through a large collection of songs (my own is 10.000+), and find the album or song that you want to hear.
In the spirit of MPD and open source software, MPoD is available free of charge from the AppStore. That said, I put a lot of time into building and supporting it, and I have to pay for hardware, software and developer licenses. Therefor I’ll be happy to receive any donations, small or big, into my Paypal account to support me in my software development. Clicking on the Donate button will take you to the secure Paypal donation site.
The following features are available from MPoD:
- 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.
- Now playing screen shows active playlist and playing song.
- Cover art from Amazon or local http server.
- Volume control.
- Move to previous, next song.
- Move to any song in active playlist.
- Seek in song.
- Toggle random, repeat.
- Stream mp3 directly to iPhone via icecast server or mpd (v0.15 or above).
- Play random album or random songs by shaking your iPhone.
- 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, remote control functions, retina display.
- Works well with Mopidy (mpd like Spotify player).
MPoD version 1.5.1 is available now from the AppStore. Here are some screenshots from this version:
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Hey,
There’s an annoying – it would be nice to get it fixed:
In the configuring server section:
1) MPD – Server: If you type http:// instead of just the IP address directly, and then save and select that server, the application will crash, and all subsequent launches of the application will also crash. The only way I found to recover was to remove/reinstall the application.
This also applies if you’re using DNS instead of the IP address directly.
Note, in some cases it reverts back (I think if there was a previously working setting)
In any case, it would be good to get some error message, or for the application to strip the “http://” instead of crashing.
2) In the On-the-go connection mode, the server address expects an “http://” prefix, and crashes otherwise. In my few tests, it went back to the previous-working-setting.
Great work, love the app.
Hi,
I cannot load the latest version of Mpod on my iPod as my ipod is an older version and only has iOS 4.2.1 software. Apple doesn’t support upgrading of the software to ios 4.3 on this iPod!
So i cannot use the latest version of mpod and cannot stream my music as before. i wanted to upload mpod again as i was having some problems and some files were not getting synchronized.
Appreciate if mpod versions for lower than ios 4.3 can also be made available.
Thanks.
Apple doesn’t allow to make multiple versions of an app available, so when a new version comes out, the only way you can get an old version back is by restoring it from a backup.
There won’t be a future version of MPoD that supports 4.2, actually the next versions of both MPoD and MPaD will require iOS 5 or higher. As a small developer I have to choose between advancing the application vs. maintaining backwards compatibility in terms of time invested. Which means that at certain points in time support for older versions is dropped.
Thanks for the answer. Is it possible for you to make available the older version, if not in your website, sent directly to me for loading into my iPod. Naturally, this time I would then back-it up! Please let me know if this is possible. It will be a great help. Or I need to get a new iPod just for this reason ! Appreciate.
I am having a problem with MPod. When it gets started, it seems that it is reading in the song list, and then abends. I have a large set of files for the music server (mpd. > 15,000 songs), and I think that this is what is causing it. Is there something I can do, or a fix that can be made for this? This is a great APP, and I hate to loose it because of library size.
Thanks
“CUE Sheet suport”
Hi,
Cue is supported by MPD now. I can choose *.cue in folder view with GMPC (Flac album)but i can’t see *.cue in Mpod.
When cue sheet is loaded as playlist (via GMPC), i can used it under Mpod.
This new feature is planified for the future ??
Cheers
Suggestion: Composer tag would be useful.
As a listing criteria, and displayed when playing the song.
When listening to classical music, it is a must !!!
Suggestion: Composer tag would be useful.
As a listing criteri
Hello everyone,
Can anyone help me configure MPod to find the local cover art? It does find cover art on the internet but it is the wrong one most of the time. I have an Auraliti PK-100 music server (192.168.1.12) reading music files on a ReadyNAS identified as 192.168.1.34 on my network. The music files are all in a share (directory) on the ReadyNAS called “export”. On that share, I have directories identified per genre (e.g. “rock”, “world”, etc.). Then all artists have their own sub-directory and each album also has its own subdirectory. All albums include an individual folder.jpg file. I’ve ensured that the cover filename in the MPod settings reads folder.jpg and I guess I have to put in a URL for MPod to find the cover art. Is it http://192.168.1.34/export“? Is there something else I have to add after that? Apologies for this but I am not very familiar with all that network stuff and any help would be very much appreciated! Many thanks in advance. jt
I just set up my MPD server and downloaded your client. I think it has a great interface but I am having trouble with playlists. I can create an active playlist and even save it. But once I do that, I can’t figure out how to clear the active playlist and create a new one without clearing the saved one I just created and ending up with 2 blank playlists.
Whoops, that should have gone under the MPad app – I’ll repost it there.
I use Mpod and Mpad, it’s great, but I would like to see the Cover Arts from the ID3 tag. All of my tracks haven’t any cover (even if there is a Album Art jpg in the folder, bug?), especially for the tracks you don’t have the whole album it is very useful.