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MPoD & MPaD version 1.6 available

August 14, 2011, 9:10 am
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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).
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MPoD & MPaD version 1.5.3 available

June 14, 2011, 6:29 pm
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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.

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Cover art in MPoD and MPaD

March 5, 2011, 7:22 pm
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I often get questions regarding (missing) cover art in MPoD and MPaD. In this post I will explain what you can expect.


The apps have 2 methods of retrieving cover art. First they attempt to load the cover art from a web server, that is, if you have specified on in the settings for that specific connection. In order to use this method, a web server like apache needs to be running on the server that is hosting mpd, and it needs to share your entire music folder. As an example, here’s an extract from my apache configuration file:

Alias /music/ "/home/music/"

<Directory "/home/music/">

Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews

AllowOverride None

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from 192.168.1

</Directory>

This shares the music folder at http://machine-ip/music, so that address must be added in the MPoD or MPaD connection settings. Then, if you place a file named ‘Folder.jpg’ in a directory, MPoD and MPaD will use that image for all tracks in that directory. So this works well if you have organized your music per album.
If the apps can’t find a cover through this first method, they revert back to retrieving cover art from Amazon through a lookup based on artist and album name. This works often, but when there are strange characters in a title, or extra text like ‘[live disc1]‘ at the end of an album title the lookup can fail. And off course it will also fail when the music is unknown at Amazon. This may happen especially for less well known or regional music (like from the Netherlands).
Cover art that is embedded in mp3 or flac files is not accessible by the apps, because the mpd protocol currently doesn’t provide a function that pushes embedded cover art to clients.
To my knowledge, the Bryston BDP-1 doesn’t have a built-in webserver, so when using MPoD or MPaD with that player, only the 2nd, amazon based method will be used to retrieve cover art.

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MPaD screencast

January 4, 2011, 7:15 pm

Here’s a screencast of the current state of MPaD, which is MPoD’s bigger brother for iPad. Let me know what you think.

By the way, this is a flash movie (Jing is the only proper free screencast solution I could find) so you can’t view it on your iPad.

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