You should instead have the volume slider update in real-time, but have a phantom slider appear partially transparent that indicates the last confirmed volume setting. Once the mpd server confirms the new volume, the phantom slider will disappear. You could also have the same effect by just changing the colour of the entire slider bar to red until it syncs.

This way the user doesn’t have this awkward experience with changing the volume.

My MPDs all reference the same music root directory, but they have their own databases. Is this complicated?

Saving playlists should be a fine solution. I can’t imagine the radio stations change hosts very often. Thanks for the quick response!

But already there is a way to enjoy streams from using MPoD, allthough less fancy it works well for your favourite stations: start the stream once using some other mpd client, and then save it as a playlist. The playlist will now be accessible from MPoD and when selected will start the stream. This is how I’m using it currently.

1. Open MPoD or Safari and browse the ShoutCast.com directory of stations.

2. Press Tune In and have impdclient parse the .pls file and pass the stream path to the MPD server

3. Enjoy streamed music!

I have a shell script that does this on my Unbuntu system. I had to associate .pls files with it in Firefox, but I’m now able to click the Tune In and have my music start. Here are the contents of my shell script:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
export MPD_PORT=6600
export MPD_HOST=192.168.0.1
echo parameter: file.pls
mpc clear
grep ‘^File[0-9]*’ $1 | sed -e ’s/^File[0-9]*=//’ | mpc add
mpc play

Thanks for the awesome player, even if this does not get accepted!

On the reconnect issue, the previous version would try to connect forever which is not a good idea, in v1.2 I changed it so that it will only try once. That is problematic because connecting to wlan is pretty slow (again this seems to be mostly happening with the latest firmware), and yesterday I made some further changes so that MPoD will try to connect 3 times before giving up.
Until this is released, when this problem occurs you can go into the preferences screen and click on ‘Connect failed (click to connect)’ after wlan is active, then you don’t have to leave the application.

Next thing: now I let it go into standby for some seconds (Wlan stayed open) and open iPhone: MPod was connected but switch a song by pressing a song will crash it again.

One more thing Pressing the song title for ~7+ seconds will crash the app everytime.

For the records: I’ve done an update from 1.1