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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Just another quick question, will alarm functionality be put into this at any point? It would be nice to tell MPoD to play playlist X at time y, then get woken up by music in the morning
Wouldn’t work on the 3G of course, but 3GS and above, where it can run in the background… would be a nice feature.
Yes, or something like a sleep timer would be really great.
MPoD has been working well until just now – it loads only a small random set of albums when I refresh the local cache. The MPoD browser still shows my whole library ok. I also updated to latest version but the problem persists. Removal & reinstall does not help. Help!
hi!
I just wanted to thank you for MPoD!
It is a great application! i just moved houses and i’m using mpd in almost every room! thanks to the mpod application i am able to control all of them and it works perfectly!
Keep up the good work! and thank you for all youre time and effort!
we appreciate it!!
gr. wietse, the netherlands
Bedankt voor de feedback, da’s altijd leuk.
Is it possible to remove songs from the now playing screen?
Currently not, this is on the to-do list for the next version.
Congratulations for this excellent work. Is it a lot of additional work to make an IPad version out of it. That´s all I´d need.
Hi,
After downloading the latest update for itouch/ipod my MPod does not work on my iTouch?
james
Something may have gone wrong with updating the application. Try deleting the application from your device, and then re-installing it. If that doesn’t help, then please be more specific about what doesn’t work (crash on start-up, some function not working).
Hi,
After downloading the latest update for itouch/ipod my MPod does not work?
james
Will there be a ipad version soon?
There will be an iPad version, but not soon. Currently this project is the 3rd on my priority list.
MPoD is the most used app on my iPod Touch in combination with a Popcorn Hour NMT running MPD with all my music.
I am also running MPoD on my new iPad. Running it in the (ugly) 2x mode is works, but an MPaD app would be brilliant. Maybe a nice moment to keep MPoD free charge a few euro for a HD version for the iPad. The screen resolution of the iPad works much better in MPoD.
Keep up the great work, mate! I’m hoping for an iPad releas and I guess I’m not the only one
btw, I forgot to thank you for all the work on MPoD: thanks!!
Will MPoD support autodetecting MPD servers using ZeroConf at any point?
Yes, most likely the next release will support this. However I have no idea yet when the next release will be ready, don’t expect anything in the next 3 months.
Can anybody tell me what i’m doing wrong. I installed mpd on my pch a-110, via CSI installer, and downloaded mpod from the app store to my ipad. After launching mpod i see my music files and album art etc. But when i press enter or play, album art shows up for a few seconds, but nothing happens and then mpod says ‘nothing playing’. Looks like à great when i get it to work. Thx for any help.
You may try what happens when you use another client (like a Windows client or Theremin for Mac). If that works then the problem lies with MPoD, otherwise it is a problem on your server.