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[Android Apps and Games] Northernmost:
I'll try my best ;)

The main benefit of syncing is to have exactly the stuff you want to play on your device(s) e.g. your favourite albums and songs, most recent photos taken of the kids, TV shows and podcasts you've yet to watch, new albums you've just downloaded... I could go on. While you can get at it from anywhere thanks to BubbleUPnP Server, there's always the risk of: connectivity outages, multiple users overloading your home upload bandwidth plus the battery hit of streaming. So syncing your most important stuff to your device's local storage seems a logical thing to do and you can then stream anything you find you're missing if need be.

As it stands at the moment I achieve the above through the use of smart playlists with J. River Media Center (JRMC) acting as our library master. You could easily use WMP, Media Monkey or any other player capable of making smart playlists. But getting the contents of the smartlists onto my devices via whatever media player requires plugging the device into a PC and waiting for a sync to complete. I dodge that by having JRMC copy the contents of the smartlists to a phantom device (a network share) and then sync those duplicates to my devices. Not every media player can do that though and then there's the heinous crime of duplicating files.

This is fine for me, but the Better Half and kids find JRMC "scary" and won't use it... which is kinda OK as I don't really want them having access to the entire media library I've spent many years getting into shape! Instead, they each have their own media player they're happy using (WMP and XBMC in this case) so that's all of us using a different DLNA capable program. The Holy Grail here is to allow each of us to manage our own media using whichever program suits the user and be able to sync it to our personal devices wirelessly (since the huge effort of plugging in a USB cable is a very real first world problem) and on a schedule in case we're to lazy to remember and tap an icon to do it for us :silly:

BubbleUPnP has the ability to connect to any DLNA program and download individual files at the moment. It being able to sync content from whatever source the user wants would, IMHO, be a very neat feature. There are a few apps out there that can sync wirelessly (WinAMP and Media Monkey spring to mind) but they both require you to use their own desktop software and app to achieve this. This leads you down a locked-in and non standards based path, where as being able to do this with any DLNA source has a warm fuzzy feeling about it.

Alternatively, could BubbleUPnP Server possibly expose a DLNA source as a browsable WebDAV file store? "Basically" walking a DLNA sources tree and presenting it as files and folders. The idea being you could then have any WebDAV enabled file syncing program sync content to a device? I've tried searching for something that does this already but with no luck.

Ack, I've waffled way too much and shall now stop.
[Android Apps and Games] KaseKasimir:
Hello,

thanks for this great app. It works perfect in my home network. I wanted to use this solution in my car. My smartphone (Galaxy Nexus) is connected via Bluetooth with my cars audio. This is needed for making calls. I also have build a tablet (HTC Flyer) inside my dashboard. My cars audio can only receive one audio source at once. So I wanted to use BubbleUPNP to make the tablet the remote of the smartphone. Smartphone is MediaServer and Renderer.

As I said before everything works great with my WLAN at home. But if I use the Hotspot of my Galaxy Nexus the solution doesn't work anymore.

Has anybody tried BubbleUPNP with the built in wifi hotspot of an android smartphone?

Thanks for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] suku_patel_22:
Re: [APP][2.1+] BubbleUPnP - UPnP/DLNA Control Point and Renderer

Can I browse the images on my phone on my XBMC?

Tapatalked from Desire S running Andromadus
[Android Apps and Games] jakubklos:
m3u not supported well - "Cannot play: cannot get file mime-type"

Hello,

I love BubbleUPnP and would like to request a fix for the m3u playlist support.

When I run a simple .m3u file on the device from the file manager BubbleUPnP reports:

The file looks like this:

It can be played by any music player on the desktop

When I use the Playlist - Add stream URL it works well

So I guess this is just something easy to fix. Just add the items from the playlist to Bubble playlist and start playing.

Could you please fix this behavior?

Thank you

Regards,

Jakub
[Android Apps and Games] Winglet:
Xiia-Streaming to foreign renderes with version 1.6.6 is fine again - thank you :)

However I still found these issues with version 1.6.6:

- the equalizer is sometimes not working anymore (although still turned on!) after pausing music for a longer time - reset of the equalizer (toggle off/on) or the app is necessary - sometimes the equalizer even only works again after new booting of the smartphone...

- some album covers show in the libary and playlist but not on the "now playing" screen

- the app does not continue Dropbox-streaming if the screen was turned off - reset of app and playlist necessary

- after new start of the smartphone sometimes the playlist can not be played anymore (songs are still listed but won't play) - the playlist has then to be deleted and filled up again...

Thank you in advance for all improvements...

Thomas :)
[Android Apps and Games] Kachar123:
AirPlay Support

Please add AirPlay support to BubbleUPnP. I want it badly and willing to pay $10 for this feature alone.
[Android Apps and Games] freeac:
Re: [APP][2.1+] BubbleUPnP - UPnP/DLNA Control Point and Renderer

Is there a way to actually steam the subtitles as well if they are not hardcoded into the avi /mkv file?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thank you for your detailed explanation of use case.

I think making Media Servers as WebDav store in BubbleUPnP Server would be the more interesting development.

No promise but I'm ading it to the list of possible enhancements.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
In theory, yes. But I've tried it with XBMC 12 and although images are browsable, it displays a black screen when an image is selected.

Probably an XBMC issue because it works with other software.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Fixed in next release. This is a particular example that any supported playlist file format (.m3u, .xspf, etc) cannot be opened from a file manager.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. Not sure what happens here. What equalizer app are you using ?

2. What is your media server ? Are you in the case of remote controlling another Android device, and having that issue with that remove device ?

3. Can you detail what you mean here ? Does playback stops when the screen goes off ? Describe exactly the steps so i can reproduce it.

4. Could be a media server specific issue. What is your media server ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Will not happen.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Maybe. UPnP and subtitles is a complicated topic that is covered in great detail within the app, in Settings > About/help > Tips
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
If I understand you want to control playback on the phone from the tablet, playing media stored on the phone ?

It works here using a Nexus4 and Nexus7, with the Nexus4 acting as a WiFi hotspot using Android 4.2.2 stock hotspot ability, and the Nexus7

being connected to that hotspot.

Launching BubbleUPnP on the Nexus7 shows the Nexus4 media server and renderer (provided BubbleUPnP is started on the Nexus4 of course). On the Nexus4 (the device acting as WiFi access point), the Nexus7 media server and renderer will only appear after a few minutes due to a bug I must address (this can be workarounded by enabling Settings > UPnP Tweaks > Blast alive on the Nexus7).

BubbleUPnP and WiFi tethering is a bit hit and miss across devices, because all WiFi tethering software do not correctly set the multicast network route required for discovery to work. If devices do not get discovered you may want to try different thrid party WiFi tethering apps that can be found on the Play store.
[Android Apps and Games] KaseKasimir:
Thank you for your really fast answer.

With the Galaxy Nexus as Server+Renderer and the HTC Flyer as control I can actually browse the library of the Galaxy Nexus MediaServer. And after trying to play a file which is local on the Gnex I get the following error message on the HTC Flyer: "Current state of service prevents invoking that action. timeout waiting for Playing. (code: 501)" This occures only when using the Hotspot of the Galaxy Nexus. In my network at home there is not a problem.

P.S.: I really would love to control BubbleUPnP from Tasker. I know this has been asked some pages before. So I would just like to vote for this feature. At the moment the play/pause-function of tasker doesn't work for me with BubbleUPnP.

Choosing Renderer Server Playlist and play/pause in Tasker for BubbleUPnP would be really powerfull to use it as alarm-clock and many more usecases.
[Android Apps and Games] skankingpigeon:
Most of Library Missing

Hi,

This looks like a great app, but the only problem I am having, is most of the artists are missing from the library. I'm only getting most of the artists beginning with numbers and A, and a few random others. I tried a few other similar apps and had the same issue, any idea why this might be?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You didn't tell what is your media server but from the description it looks like it is not returning all artists. Try to trigger a rescan of its database if possible.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Can you send me a log file of that error, on your HTC Flyer (see first post of this topic for instruction)

What exactly do you want to automate with Tasker ?
[Android Apps and Games] Kachar123:
Any particular reason? Technically not possible or due to Apple licensing issue?
[Android Apps and Games] KaseKasimir:
The requested log file is in your inbox.

Just as an example: You have an old Android Smartphone as Media Server and Renderer plugged in to your hifi-system. You control everything from your new Smartphone. You make a tasker profile, that gets activated when the built in alarm-clock of your new smartphone rings. (Already possible with Tasker) Now you have a command in a task which starts BubbleUPnP and is able to choose which Media Server and Renderer you would like to operate (in this case the old smartphone). As second command you can choose music, choose a playlist, start the last played or random music. And as third command you need one which can control the standard media controls of BubbleUPnP which is Next Song, Previous Song, Play, Pause and Stop.

This is just a very simple usecase example. Of course you could choose just every device as Media Server or Renderer. You would then have three different devices: One with the Tasker Commands running, one Media Server and one Renderer. Of course you could run all these functions on just one device, but that doesn't make much sense. The advantage would be that you can use BubbleUPnP together with every other function of your smartphone. Or you could build your own home automation system with integrated BubbleUPnP.
[Android Apps and Games] Andre Gosselin:
Feature request

Hi,

It would be nice to see the following functionality implemented in a future version BubbleUPnP. Following a long press on a track title in the Library or Playlist tab, include an "Info" (or "Properties") choice which, when selected, would display all the available metadata about that track (full title, all artists names, conductor, composer, etc). This would be very helpfull.

Regards,
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Technically it is possible although not exaclty trivial.

Main reason is that I indeed do not want BubbleUPnP to not include Apple tech for the reason you mention.

There's a software running on Windows, that theorically makes an Airplay receiver appear as an UPnP renderer, that BubbleUPnP can play to:

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?19645-Air-UPnP-(control-Airport-Express-as-UPnP-devices)

You may want to try it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ok, that a reasonable request which I think has already been asked.
[Android Apps and Games] e_esprit:
Fisrt of all, thanks for this wonderful app !

On the subject of UPnP and subtitles, I have one feature request to ask for (I have read the tips section on this matter before asking;) ) :

Some UPnP Servers don't add the subtitle information on the video when an .srt file is available, but they still permit to access it.

An example will be more useful then a lot of words (this is with a synology UPnP/DLNA server) :

if I have MyVideo_XYZ.avi and MyVideo_XYZ.srt in the same folder, and if the URL of the video is http : // 192.168.1.14:50002/v/NDLNA/7927.avi, then the subtitle file will be available at http : // 192.168.1.14:50002/v/NDLNA/7927.srt (it also works with .sub + .idx if availables).

But BubbleUPNP has no information about them, cause they are not advertised/associated to the video metadata.

Would it be possible (here is the feature request :laugh:) to have BubbleUPnP to always check (a simple HEAD HTTP request) if http : // server_ip/whatever/path/to/video.srt is available, and if yes, act like if it has been advertised ?

Or can you describe a little how the subtitle is advertised in UPnP servers that supports it (is it a simple tag "subtitle" + URL ?) ? Perhaps I could then ask Synology to support this in a future release ?

Thanks anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes, that sounds doable.

There's different methods that I know of to pass the URL to the sub in the XML metadata (DIDL-Lite) associated to a video item.

one of them is to put the sub URL is a res tag:
[Android Apps and Games] Mattlindsay:
Sync help?

Hi guys, just loving this app, plus using dlna/upnp but...

Desperately want to get a solution to play syncd renders (i.e. 'party mode). I was hoping that because bubble is an Openhome implementation it might... But no joy.

Any ideas or answers on how I do this without buying into airplay or sonos?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Synced playback is not possible with just UPnP AV. You'd get anything between 0-5s lag between renderers.
[Android Apps and Games] Mattlindsay:
Yep, I had picked that up by my internet searching.... Which was why mentioned OpenHome because I believe this will.

Thanks though?
[Android Apps and Games] e_esprit:
Great !

Thanks, I did a feature request to ask them to support that (don't know if they will, neither when, but anyway...).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Just for info, to which renderer do you want to play video with subs ? local playback with MX player ? something else ?
[Android Apps and Games] e_esprit:
Local Playback with MX Player, yes
[Android Apps and Games] Mattlindsay:
Would I be better off getting into the Squeeze protocol?
[Android Apps and Games] Northernmost:
Re: [APP][2.1+] BubbleUPnP - UPnP/DLNA Control Point and Renderer

J. River Media Center on Windows does synchronised multi zone playback and DLNA. Maybe worth a look and they do a free trial version as it's not the cheapest player out there!
[Android Apps and Games] HzeMaffe:
Hello! Been trying to set the server up, followed every instruction (atleast I think so). Got some screenshots if it helps any. The problem is that on my Android tablet, testing connection fails with the message: "The remote server could not be joined. Check that the specified port in the Server Address field is correct."

I've added a new rule to Win8 firewall: Local address 192.168.11.2 and local port 58050.

I've attached a few screenshots. Many thanks in advance!

Edit: Got it working by using the hostname instead.
[Android Apps and Games] hthgo:
why?

I have one question,wdtv watch mkv file in my phone with android 2.2.1 ,can't fast forward or rewind,it says : the file you playing does not supprt trick mode.or does not support seek to a position . why?sorry for my poor english.
[Android Apps and Games] e_esprit:
Ok, so perhaps you won't have to implement this if not really needed, because the MX Player dev have just implemented the loading of subtitles in such cases (I asked to the MX Player google group before I found that perhaps it was more something to do in BubbleUPnP...).

So now no matter that the subtitle is not shown by BubbleUPnP, with the last test build of MX Player they are available !

Awesome :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] mkdr:
I think I found out how this problem can happen, that the device became "unknown" for Windows. If you turn off the media server in BubbleUPNP on Android, Windows doesnt recognizes them anymore correctly as renderes too, so it's a problem with BubbleUPNP. I have another annoying problem though, that the UPNP services running on my PC arent always listed on the BubbleUPNP Android devices, it can happen that they are just showing up after like 20 minutes. Is there no way adding services as favorites accessing them directly?
[Android Apps and Games] sk280:
Feature Request? Enumerating all renderers and making them openhome rendereres

To the author of this amazing app, the following is my requirement:

Headless Linux computer running BubbleUNPServer that on startup would (optionally) enumerate all renderers and make them openhome renderers.

Reason for request:

Since the computer is headless, I want to start BubbleUNPServer as a daemon with params (command line args?) passed to it such that it enumerates all renderers and makes them openhome renderers for Playlist syncing.

There is already an gmediarender upnp renderer running on the linux computer that is connected to a stereo amplifier and speakers. I want to be able to select the above renderer (available as openhome) from multiple clients (bubbleunp on android).

*** However I dont want to configure this via the webinterface on every server reboot. ***

Will this be possible? At this stage, I dont want to look into generated webrequests to come up with a way to automate this.

Also, is the licence for bubbleupnp per device (per installation)?

Thanks.

PS : I have not yet installed BubbleUPNPServer as I'm still evaluating a solution. So its possible the webserver configuration is only one time and saved. However it did'nt seem that way when I read the docs for BubbleUPnpServer.
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
The license is per Google account, not per device.

Of course the configuration is saved and restored after reboot. So there is no point for your request.
[Android Apps and Games] chileboy:
Gapless, etc.

I just tried out BubbleUPNP over the weekend and it showed so much promise I already purchased a license.

I am having a couple of issues I'd like to ask about. The app is installed on a Motorola Droid Razr (original) running Android 4.1.2 (official Verizon version), and I'm streaming from a local NAS running Twonky Server. My connection is via Wireless-N.

Gapless playback is very important to me. I enabled it in Settings -> Local Renderer but I still get a slight hiccup between tracks (my "acid test" has always been Emerson Lake and Palmer's Tarkus, one long glorious masterpiece).

Also, I have found that usually after about 10 or 15 minutes the app just locks up - won't respond to anything, and if I try, I get the Android "Wait-Report-OK" app-not-responding dialog. All I can do at that point is close and restart the app.

Now, I am not 100% sure this last is limited to BubbleUPNP, because I get a similar behavior from one of my streaming radio apps. But I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion to troubleshoot that.

I am considering doing a factory reset, as I have seen a bit of other flakiness since I got the OTA update to Android 4.1.2. If I do that, will I have any trouble reactivating my license?

I apologize if any (or all) of this is addressed elsewhere in the thread - I did search a bit, but couldn't locate anything specific. I'll admit I gave up after about 10 minutes (being at work and all...)

Thanks very much,

- Mark
[Android Apps and Games] baastrup:
Feature request

First of all im a big fan og buubleupnp which I use for google music streaming to my sonos playbar :)

The only way i know of playing google music via DLNA/UPNP

whishlist:

an Option to pre-cache google music tracks on a playlist, so next track will be cached just before the previous ends or similar.

Also as I only use bubbleupnp, It would be nice to be able to set google music to the default in the Library (no google music subfolder)

a way to sync the playlists on all devices, so you can edit the queue/playlist from multiple devices.

This app is really worth the money.

Once again thanks for a great app.
[Android Apps and Games] nicovolley:
Unable to connect to server my TF101 Bubble on PC

Hello,

As marked in the title, I can not connect my tablet to PC server via software installed Bubble. I bought the paid version thinking it was a restriction, but it still does not work. I took all the information that I feel good .. and when I want to connect, it loads but it tells me that the connection time is too long and need to re-check the server name. On the PC, everything is green, it tells me that the server is reachable from the Internet.

Help please!
[Android Apps and Games] darkbasic4:
Hi,

I use BubbleUPnP Pro on my Nexus 4 with Foobar2000 and I like it alot. Can someone suggest me a similar program for the iPhone? iOS users are starting to get jelaous :laugh:

P.S.

I don't know if it's the proper place for bug reports but I can't see covers in the "Now playing" section, which is strange because I can see the covers in the "Library" section (remote, of course). As I said I use foobar2000 with foo_upnp.
[Android Apps and Games] Ravi098:
Error on playing to wd tv live

Hi

First of my thanks and congrats on a great app. I have been using bubbleupnp for quite some time with my samsung galaxy s3 playing to wd tv live. Recently I purchased the new wd tv live streaming unit. Since then whenever I try to play anything to the following error comes up on the tv screen " this is sharing content from windows " and audio files still play but none of my video files would play. I am sorry if this has already been asked but I searched and could not find it here. Is there anything indeed to change in bubbleupnp settings or is it an issue with wd tv live?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Maybe it supports playing to multiple renderers simultaneously, but they will not be exaclty synced. With just regular UPnP AV it is not possible to control syncing, so each renderer will do its own buffering which is unpredictable, even if they are of the same brand/model.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Not a BubbleUPnP issue but more an issue of the video player app used and the media sever it is streaming the file from. Maybe the media server does not support seeking (http range requests). You may also want to try another video player app.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes, MX Player automatically try to get the subs from an URL derived from the stream URL.

It might still be worth for BubbleUPnP doing it for playback to external renderers.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The Android media player API on Android 4.1+ is perfectly gapless for gapless WAV, OGG and FLAC files.

Unfortunately, for mp3 and aac, it is not perfectly gapless and you get a 50ms pause between files (the hiccup you describe I guess).

Prior to Android 4.1 you'd have a 1-2s gap.

There's nothing the app can do here as it use the regular Android media playback API.

You should still be able to workaround it by configuring Twonky to transcode all files to WAV (or only mp3 and aac), as it can be played gaplessly.

I suspect it has something to do with networking going unresponding, possibly due to power saving. Does this happen if you force the screen to stay on ?

You can if you wish send me log file, until the problem appears (see first post of this topic for instructions).