MPD Pilot vs Finamp

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.

Finamp is a free Jellyfin music player. It allows you to stream and download the music you own. It has a modern but thought-through design, a ton of features, is customizable, and respects your privacy! You need access to a Jellyfin server (https://jellyfin.org) or you won't be able to use Finamp at all! Finamp comes with a bunch of features, including these: - Gapless playback - Shallow library browsing, to quickly get into your music - Volume normalization (aka "ReplayGain") for tracks and albums - Lyrics, time-synced lyrics, and even word-by-word cue highlighting - Flexible transcoding options -Including automatic downmixing & lossless transcoding to FLAC, for maximum compatibility - Dedicated offline mode with automatic connectivity detection - A powerful download system that does it all - Download individual tracks, albums, entire artists & genres, or your whole library - Download all your favorites in one go - Download the newest additions to your library - Transcode all downloads to take up less space on your device - Customizable download locations - And keeps all of these downloads up-to-date automatically as things change on the server - Advanced playback options: - Use the "Next Up" sub-queue to append multiple tracks to play next (and keep appending!) - Choose between shuffling or playing in order - Choose if you want to play now, next, or after everything else - ...for everything! - Apple CarPlay support - Desktop & Tablet Support with a split-screen layout - A Customizable Home Tab - List views & grid views with adjustable density - Adaptive app color theme based on your system colors - Easily switch to a previous queue from hours or days ago - A radio feature that always keeps the music playing with something related - And you get to choose between 5 different modes to cater to *your* listening habits - AudioMuse integration (https://github.com/NeptuneHub/AudioMuse-AI) for an enhanced radio mode powered by sonic analysis - You'll have to set up AudioMuse and install the AudioMuse Jellyfin plugin to use this in Finamp - Solid customization options, including tabs that can be hidden and reordered - Support for several languages - Jellyfin 11.8+ & 12+ compatibility - and a lot more! Have a feature request or want to report a bug? Head over to our GitHub and open an issue there: https://github.com/finamp-app/finamp/issues Finamp is a third-party client for Jellyfin, we have no official ties to the Jellyfin project, but want to see the Jellyfin community thrive. Install Finamp today to enjoy your music, on your terms. Thank you for using Finamp!