MPoD & MPaD version 1.5.3 available
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Since a few days MPoD & MPaD v1.5.3 are available from the AppStore. Release notes for MPoD:
And for MPaD:
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Posts tagged ‘Music’
Cover art in MPoD and MPaD
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.
When? Now!
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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:
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MPoD version 1.5.2 released
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Since today MPoD v1.5.2 is available from the AppStore. The main change is the added ability to search directly against the mpd database from the browse
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