Good evening from hot Spain.

[Tim Curtis]

I must be missing the point here. It feels like you are trying to make moOde be an music server when it's primary function is to be a music player. 

As it happens, a key component of moOde is the excellent MPD which is, tada, a music server and which has this odd http-server plugin, but I"d much rather use an MPD client on my phone/tablet/laptop/whatever which offers a decent user interface for this use case. Assuming, that is, that I want to take advantage of the library database already created by the MPD instance in my moOde player. I can just as easily run a music client on those separate devices which directly accesses the same underlying music sources.

As Unix/Linux cognoscenti have been saying for decades, "there's more than one way to do that!"

Regards,
Kent

This can be a long war on words  It was not my intention to confuse things ! but I believe a music player should be able to play on different output media, like my speaker or my earbuds.

I do use the raspberry pi as a Media server as well, simply by sharing directories via SMB, but that is to me a different story.

Your idea of using a MPD client sounds like a very good alternative solution, the only problem is probably to get the same user interface but the advantage is that you can have multiple clients listening to different music. Do you have a recommendation for an iOS based mpd client ?

The expression in Denmark, the home of the Vikings, is "there's more than one way to skin a cat", but I like your quote more. And the quote is soo true.

Playback Modes:

1. MPD
This is the core playback application.

- Play song files and Internet radio stations to a locally attached audio device.
- Concurrently but not synchronized, encode the currently playing file or station as an HTTP stream on default port 8000

2. Audio Receivers
These are 3rd party renderer (receive-only) applications integrated into moOde that receive streams sent by client applications using the protocols below.

- Bluetooth
- Airplay 1 and 2
- Spotify Connect
- SlimProto (Squeezelite)
- RAAT (RoonBridge)
- UPnP (UPnP to MPD proxy)

3. Audio Senders
These are applications and components integrated into moOde that can send output to other devices.

- Bluetooth (send MPD output to a Bluetooth speaker)
- Multiroom (send MPD, Airplay or Spotify Connect output to multiple other moOde players to-the-ear synchronized).