GoodTunes vs mikMPD

The free GoodTunes® Player to play the music you own from the artists you love. A player that feels right. Tap into a rich full-screen player with smooth, responsive controls. Line up what's coming with Up Next, shuffle any album or playlist, and pick right back up with Recently Played. Sing along, every word. Live, time-synced lyrics light up in real time as the song plays — tap any line to jump straight to that moment. Go deeper than the song. Every track carries its full credits — the writers, the players, and even the instruments and gear used to make it. Discover the people and the equipment behind the music you love. Your collection, beautifully kept. Browse your music by albums, songs, or artists, search your whole collection instantly, and build playlists for every mood, moment, and memory. Favorite the songs and artists you love and they're always close. Bonus content from the artist. Watch behind-the-scenes videos and view exclusive photos that bring each release to life. Built for how you listen. AirPlay to your Apple TV or HomePod in a single tap, and enjoy a clean, modern experience designed for iPhone and iPad. A real connection to the music. Every album in your collection comes with a personalized and numbered GoodDeed® — your proof of ownership and a way share it with the world. Sized perfectly for Stories. Beautiful, considered, and made for people who truly love music.

This requires a running MPD server on your network. More information about MPD and how to configure it can be found here: https://www.musicpd.org. mikMPD should work with other MPD implementations as Mopidy, OwnTone, Chord Poly etc. Album art (fetched from MusicBrainz/CoverArtArchive), synced lyrics (via LRCLIB). Browse by albums, artists, genres, or playlists with search filtering. Album and artist detail views include Wikipedia summaries. Play or enqueue entire albums/artists with one tap. Playlists — Full stored-playlist support: browse, rename, and delete playlists. Radio — Built-in Swedish Radio streams (SR P1–P4 Göteborg) plus custom station management with persistent storage. CD — Play audio CDs directly via cdda:/// URIs with per-track control. File Browser — Navigate the MPD directory tree. Single-tap enters directories, double-tap plays files. Swipe actions for add/play. Search — Concurrent search across songs, artists, and albums with debounced input, batch selection, and album art thumbnails. Queue — View and manage the current playlist. Double-tap to jump to a song, drag to reorder, swipe to delete, clear all, toggle consume mode. Outputs & Partitions — Toggle audio outputs on/off, switch between MPD partitions, create and delete partitions, move outputs between partitions via long-press context menu. Multiple Servers — Save any number of MPD servers and switch between them with one tap. Nearby servers advertising over Bonjour/Zeroconf are discovered automatically and can be added directly. Passwords are stored in the Keychain, and the last-used partition is remembered per server. Listen on Phone — Stream audio from an MPD httpd output directly to the device via AVPlayer. Configure the stream URL per server, then toggle "Listen on phone" in Now Playing. Supports background playback with lock screen metadata (song title, artist, album art) and lock screen transport controls. Snapcast — Control a Snapcast multiroom server from the More tab