MPD Pilot is a Music Player Daemon (MPD) controller designed for fast, convenient control of your music library, queue, and playback.
Key Features:
- Playback Control: Control playback, volume, and outputs with a clean, responsive interface.
- Queue Management: Build, reorder, and manage your current queue with ease.
- Remote Library Browser: Browse your music library remotely in a file tree view and manage playlists.
- Artist and Album Views: Explore your collection by artist or album, with integrated search for quick navigation.
- Song Search: Quickly find tracks in your MPD database.
- Automatic Server Discovery: Discover compatible MPD servers on your local network via Bonjour.
- Local Playback on Device: Stream audio from your MPD server directly to your iPhone or iPad via speakers, Bluetooth headphones, or AirPlay devices. Supports HTTP-based and Snapcast streams, including formats such as FLAC, MP3, OPUS, and Vorbis, with stream quality details available in the app.
- Cover Art Display: View cover art from your MPD collection or external sources.
- Localized in 12 languages.
Requirements:
- MPD Pilot requires an MPD server for library browsing, queue management, and playback control.
- To listen on your device, your MPD server must also be configured with a streaming output.
Learn more about MPD setup at https://www.musicpd.org and https://mpdpilot.app/help
Premium Features:
Unlock Premium to connect to an unlimited number of MPD servers, create multiple local playback streams, and enjoy ad-free local audio playback. All other app features remain available in the free version.
Privacy Policy: https://mpdpilot.app/privacy
Terms of Use: https://mpdpilot.app/terms-of-use
Visit https://mpdpilot.app for more information.
Would be nice to have "consume mode" setting for MPD enabled. May be placed next to Clear Playlist command. Should be easy to implement, just a command sent to the server and will add more control over the queue. Just a thought. :)In general it is a very good app. I often use it and it proved to be a reliable tool for streaming with MPD.
Developer Response
Thank you for the kind words!We have added support for consume and single modes in version 3.3.0! Check it out and let us know what do you think :)
Best MPD Client for the iOS/Mac Ecosystem
Potatoofthesea
I’ve tried every MPD client out there, from the terminal, to web-based, to cross-platform, to others written in swift and purportedly Apple-native. MPD Pilot is better than all of them for my use case of setting up an old iPad as a single-app controller. It has every feature I need, plus an excellent local playback feature, with experimental snapcast support. Free version works great but I’m also quite happy to support the dev for their excellent work!
Developer Response
Thank you very much for the review and support. I’m glad to hear the app has been working well for you. More improvements are on the way.
Was nice until they got greedy
SomeLongNameThatIsntTaken
I have used this app back when it was free. I have a few mpd servers so the multi account was a really nice feature. I understand the need to make money and they moved to a pay app. Which was fine. I could control what I had set up. Now I see they have locked out all my setups accept the one I was using the most. So now if I want to control another server I had already setup in this app it is now locked out as a premium feature. You could have at least let people use it as it was setup That would have been nice.
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback. We understand why this was frustrating. During the transition to the premium model, previously configured multi-server setups remained usable for some time, but that access was part of a temporary transition rather than a permanent unlock. We understand that losing access later could feel like something you already had was taken away, and we appreciate you sharing that perspective.
More features please
Ehsunam
I want to thank you for your time to create this great app, please add more futures like, “use now playing control”, “advanced search” for example search by source ie Soundcloud or files, “like tracks”, …
- Added option to keep local playback synchronized with the MPD playback state
- Added All Albums view
- Fixed queue item highlighting after playback errors
- Fixed album contents for multi-artist albums
Version 3.9.4
The developer, Noemi Rozpara, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
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Information
Seller
Noemi Rozpara
Size
22.2 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
