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v1.6.3 for both MPoD and MPaD is available from the AppStore now. The most important change that many people have asked for is better handling of compilations. The apps now use the album-artist tag to group songs, and will also properly display compilations under the artist ‘Various Artists’ or whatever you have named it. Complete release notes:

• Feature: Added proper handling of compilations by using the album-artist tag to group songs and display ‘Various Artists’ albums.
• Feature: Made artist capitalization optional.
• Feature: Show track details in browse mode.
• Feature: Add ‘back to top’ button in browse mode.
• Feature: Show art and number of albums in artist view (MPoD only).
• Feature: Popup to quickly change between connections (MPaD only).
• UI Change: Improved voice-over labels in playlist screen (MPoD only).
• Bugfix: Fixed bug where data was not refreshed or inconsistent after the local cache was updated.
• Bugfix: Move to discogs v2.0 api for cover art retrieval.

MPoD & MPaD v1.6.1 are available from the AppStore. These new versions contain numerous new features, enhancements and bugfixes:

iPhone & iPad

• Feature: add long press gestures for iOS 3.
• Feature: capitalize all artist names to prevent duplicates.
• Feature: use hostname for bonjour based servers instead of ip-address.
• Feature: Added the possibility to start from another app or website via mpod://mpod.
• Feature: Added possibility to play complete library from ‘Edit playlist’ action sheet.
• Feature: Added actions for long press on genre lists.
• UI Change: Added progress indicator back into playlist view.
• UI Change: Immediate search while typing.
• Bugfix: Improved stability of local cache reload.
• Bugfix: Fix problem where connection to mpd server was frequently lost.
• Bugfix: correctly pick up local cover art for albums with 2 artists.
• Generic: tested with iOS 5.

iPad

• Feature: add track time labels.
• Feature: add possibility to show liner notes for an album (if available on the server).
• UI Change: Don’t automatically load current artist when switching to info view.
• Bugfix: only show ‘playlist’ popup once, even if edit button is hit multiple times.

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.