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MPD client compatability
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This is a list of MPD clients we either know works well with Mopidy, or that we
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know won't work well. For a more exhaustive list of MPD clients, see
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http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients.
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Console clients
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===============
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mpc
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A command line client. Version 0.14 had some issues with Mopidy (see
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:issue:`5`), but 0.16 seems to work nicely.
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ncmpc
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A console client. Uses the ``idle`` command heavily, which Mopidy doesn't
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support yet (see :issue:`32`). If you want a console client, use ncmpcpp
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instead.
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ncmpcpp
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-------
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A console client that generally works well with Mopidy, and is regularly used
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by Mopidy developers.
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Search only works for ncmpcpp versions 0.5.1 and higher, and in two of the
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three search modes:
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- "Match if tag contains search phrase (regexes supported)" -- Does not work.
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The client tries to fetch all known metadata and do the search client side.
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- "Match if tag contains searched phrase (no regexes)" -- Works.
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- "Match only if both values are the same" -- Works.
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If you run Ubuntu 10.04 or older, you can fetch an updated version of ncmpcpp
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from `Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ncmpcpp>`_.
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Graphical clients
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GMPC
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`GMPC <http://gmpc.wikia.com>`_ is a graphical MPD client (GTK+) which works
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well with Mopidy, and is regularly used by Mopidy developers.
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GMPC may sometimes requests a lot of meta data of related albums, artists, etc.
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This takes more time with Mopidy, which needs to query Spotify for the data,
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than with a normal MPD server, which has a local cache of meta data. Thus, GMPC
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may sometimes feel frozen, but usually you just need to give it a bit of slack
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before it will catch up.
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Sonata
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`Sonata <http://sonata.berlios.de/>`_ is a graphical MPD client (GTK+).
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It generally works well with Mopidy, except for search.
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When you search in Sonata, it only sends the first to letters of the search
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query to Mopidy, and then does the rest of the filtering itself on the client
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side. Since Spotify has a collection of millions of tracks and they only return
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the first 100 hits for any search query, searching for two-letter combinations
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seldom returns any useful results. See :issue:`1` and the matching `Sonata
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bug`_ for details.
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.. _Sonata bug: http://developer.berlios.de/feature/?func=detailfeature&feature_id=5038&group_id=7323
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Theremin
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`Theremin <http://theremin.sigterm.eu/>`_ is a graphical MPD client for OS X.
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It generally works well with Mopidy.
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Android clients
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BitMPC
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Works well with Mopidy.
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Droid MPD
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Works well with Mopidy.
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MPDroid
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Works well with Mopidy, and is regularly used by Mopidy developers.
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PMix
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Works well with Mopidy.
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ThreeMPD
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Does not work well with Mopidy, because we haven't implemented ``listallinfo``
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yet.
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iPhone/iPod Touch clients
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impdclient
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There's an open source MPD client for iOS called `impdclient
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<http://code.google.com/p/impdclient/>`_ which has not seen any updates since
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August 2008. So far, we've not heard of users trying it with Mopidy. Please
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notify us of your successes and/or problems if you do try it out.
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MPod
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The `MPoD <http://www.katoemba.net/makesnosenseatall/mpod/>`_ client can be
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installed from the `iTunes Store
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<http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mpod/id285063020>`_.
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Users have reported varying success in using MPoD together with Mopidy. Thus,
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we've tested a fresh install of MPoD 1.5.1 with Mopidy as of revision e7ed28d
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(pre-0.3) on an iPod Touch 3rd generation. The following are our findings:
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- **Works:** Playback control generally works, including stop, play, pause,
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previous, next, repeat, random, seek, and volume control.
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- **Bug:** Search does not work, neither in the artist, album, or song
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tabs. Mopidy gets no requests at all from MPoD when executing searches. Seems
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like MPoD only searches in local cache, even if "Use local cache" is turned
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off in MPoD's settings. Until this is fixed by the MPoD developer, MPoD will
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be much less useful with Mopidy.
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- **Bug:** When adding another playlist to the current playlist in MPoD,
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the currently playing track restarts at the beginning. I do not currently
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know enough about this bug, because I'm not sure if MPoD was in the "add to
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active playlist" or "replace active playlist" mode when I tested it. I only
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later learned what that button was for. Anyway, what I experienced was:
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#. I play a track
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#. I select a new playlist
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#. MPoD reconnects to Mopidy for unknown reason
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#. MPoD issues MPD command ``load "a playlist name"``
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#. MPoD issues MPD command ``play "-1"``
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#. MPoD issues MPD command ``playlistinfo "-1"``
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#. I hear that the currently playing tracks restarts playback
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- **Tips:** MPoD seems to cache stored playlists, but they won't work if the
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server hasn't loaded stored playlists from e.g. Spotify yet. A trick to force
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refetching of playlists from Mopidy is to add a new empty playlist in MPoD.
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- **Wishlist:** Modifying the current playlists is not supported by MPoD it
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seems.
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- **Wishlist:** MPoD supports playback of Last.fm radio streams through the MPD
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server. Mopidy does not currently support this, but there is a wishlist bug
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at :issue:`38`.
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- **Wishlist:** MPoD supports autodetection/-configuration of MPD servers
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through the use of Bonjour. Mopidy does not currently support this, but there
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is a wishlist bug at :issue:`39`.
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