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.
- Supports the use of a password for making a connection to the server.
- Store multiple connection profiles.
- Application startup in 3-4 seconds.
- Now playing screen shows active playlist and playing song.
- Cover art in now playing view.
- 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).
- 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’.
MPoD version 1.3 is available now from the AppStore. Here are some screenshots from this version:
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[...] are available: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Windows_Compatibility). The software is called MPoD (http://www.katoemba.net/makesnosenseatall/mpod/), is freely distributed through the app store, and has basically all the functionality of the [...]
Would it be feasible to add a genre browser in the next release? Thank you.
I currently don’t have plans to include genre, because of the negative impact it will have on performance.
Hi,
Love your app, I think it is really nice!
However, after upgrading to the latest version, the client loses connection with the server if I don’t use it for a couple of minutes (while the server is still playing music)
Is there any way to downgrade to 1.2.1?
Tnx,
Ard.
Hi, thank you very much for your new MPod Release, it does have some nice features! One question, how can I seek a song? Thank you!
On the cover view, tap on the screen to see the controls (stop, play, pause and seek).
Hi, I love your program. One thing missing from making it perfect tho. It should be possible to enter several servers. And easy switching between them. That way it could control several servers in the house with easy switching. Kind og like SONOS and so on…
…yeah, thats the only thing i am missing too. great software, minimalistic, functional, but if you have several mpd-servers around, it would be great to select them simple from a list.
Version 1.3 has support for multiple servers.
I love you… Hehe
Hi, I have a problem connecting with Ubuntu 9.04. It give the couldn’t connect to mpd server error, although I can access mpd from mpc on the server computer. I don’t have any firewall running currently. I haven’t tested the mpd from another network pc. I’ll do that and report back. Meanwhile, what do you think might be the problem?
Check your MPD config file — if you have specified a bind_to_address then that’s the only one that MPD will respond on — so if it’s set to, for example, ‘localhost’, you will only be able to connect from the server itself… u need that address to be one that’s resolvable by both the server and your client machine…
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Looks like it works perfectly on my 8.04 machine. Still no success on Jaunty… Any suggestions?
I’ve just noticed that it’s because of my network.. Thanks anyways.
Love your client, it makes using my NMT worth using with music. I have a couple of suggestions.
1. The shake needed to randomise is pretty extreme. Could the magnitude be reduced?
2. A button to shuffle the current playlist, or play it in random order.
Thanks
Duh.. Just read the 1.3 release post. Looks very nice. I look forward to when Apple decide not to be pricks.
Hi, this soft is too much !!!
I like, i love it!
One question: is there a way to delete mp3 files from it ?
When i hear an horrible music, the best fing is to delete it !
Thanks
MPD doesn’t support the deletion of mp3 files, so neither do it’s clients.
Would it be possible to have to enable/disable outputs (using ‘enableoutput’ and ‘disableoutput’)?
I have been working on a RAOP/AirTunes/Airport Express output plugin, and it would be really convenient to be able to turn them on/off through this app.
I’m planning to leave MPoD as is for a while, and concentrate on some other things. If/when I work on a new version I’ll include this request.
Hi, is there a way to select a complete album to play without adding one track at a time? Thanks!
In album view, click on the little blue button left of the album title to play the entire album.