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Since a few days MPoD & MPaD v1.6 are available from the AppStore. These new versions contain numerous new features, enhancements and bugfixes:

• Feature: Cover art in album (MPoD) and song lists.
• Feature: Added actions for long press on song, album, artist and directory lists.
• Feature: Added actions for long press on playlist for ‘add to favorites’, ‘remove from playlist’, ‘move after current track’.
• Feature: Playlist editing (MPoD).
• Feature: Save playlist directly from playlist window.
• Feature: Show album details in album view.
• Feature: Added settings to enable/disable individual sources from which to fetch cover art.
• Feature: Added function to clear out all cached cover art.
• Feature: Added setting to toggle the mpd consume on/off.
• UI Change: Sort entries in playlist table alphabetically.
• UI Change: Multiline display in playlist.
• UI Change: Add/replace button replaced by setting for default click action with 4 modes.
• UI Change: Separate function to clear playlist now (from edit button) in addition to clearing the playlist through hitting stop twice.
• Bugfix: Improved handling of low memory situations.
• Bugfix: Fix two-finger swipe under iOS 4.3.
• Bugfix: Better display of stream information.
• Bugfix: Fix crash on iOS 3.x when going into settings.
• Bugfix: Restore correct album popup size if iPad is rotated during popup animation (MPaD).

Since a few days MPoD & MPaD v1.5.3 are available from the AppStore. Release notes for MPoD:

• Feature: Extensibility via http-commands for play/stop/speakers.
• Feature: Cover art retrieval via Discogs.
• Feature: Song search now also looks at composer, performer and comment tags.
• Feature: Improved help screen explaining all MPoD features.
• UI Change: Play/pause buttons combined into one.
• UI Change: Hide/show control buttons on playlist view through two-finger swipe down/up.
• Bugfix: Properly present ‘play all’ in search results (related to iPad bugfix).
• Bugfix: Fix lastfm support for mpd 0.16.

And for MPaD:

• Feature: Extensibility via http-commands for play/stop/speakers.
• Feature: Cover art retrieval via Discogs.
• Feature: Support on-the-go mode (play stream directly on the iPad).
• Feature: Choose artist info from last.fm or allmusic.
• Feature: Song search now also looks at composer, performer and comment tags.
• Feature: Improved help screen explaining all MPaD features.
• UI Change: Play/pause buttons combined into one.
• UI Change: Improved display of cover art.
• UI Change: Hide/show cover art on playlist view through two-finger swipe down/up.
• UI Change: Show bitrate after tap on cover art.
• Bugfix: Fix crash that occurs when searching in the Artist view.
• Bugfix: Cancel button for search now always active.
• Bugfix: Fix lastfm support for mpd 0.16.

Note: there is a problem with the two-finger swipe down/up on iOS 4.3 that was not detected during testing. This will be resolved in the next release.

The wait is over: MPaD is now available from the AppStore. It offers everything that MPoD does (with the exception of on-the-go mode), and then a lot more:

• MPaD makes full use of the larger iPad screen.
• Main functions are always available.
• Full cover art display for album, artist and genre view.
• Album details via popup window.
• Editable playlists (remove and re-order tracks).
• Large artist info view based on last.fm.