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[Android Apps and Games] Andre Gosselin:
Loss of timings and multiline display in new version

Hi,

I have been a strong follower of BubbleUPnP for the last 2 years, and felt it was the best app to access a classical music library. The latest release however left me in a somewhat sad mood. App looks nicer, good things have appeared (for ex. really good access to the browsing history) but at the expense of some important functionalities which appear to have been withdrawn.

First,the option to display title, artist and album on separate lines running most of the screen width (both in portrait mode and landscape mode) on a 7-8 inch tablet is gone. It was a really efficient way to deal with the long titles so frequent in classical music. Back in september 2012, I think I offered sound arguments and examples to convince you of implementing this option, on which I relied heavily until last week. With the new version, columnar display is back as the solution. The only way I found to get more of long titles to be displayed is to queue tracks to a playlist and visualize this playlist in "track view" with the tablet in portrait mode, where you get rid ofcolumns and titles can extend on 2 lines, with artist names on a 3rd one. If you hope that turning the table in landscape mode would help to show more, you see that colums are back, and the space allocated to titles severely reduced. I found no way inside Library lists (countrary to what you say in your post) to have the titles extend to 2 lines, only 1 line is always used, and columns are always present. It is with Library lists that the ability to see titles to their fullest is the most important. For some albums, the way the new version truncates long titles results in, unfortunately, an almost useless display. Would it be possible to reacivate the previous multiline option ? If not, then offer the possibility to wrap titles on as many lines as needed to diplay them in full inside the allocated column ? (I realize of course that showing track metadata is a way to access titles in full, but this does not make for a very pleasing browsing experience).

My second concern is the disappereance in the new version of the display of album, playlist and track timings in the Library and Playlist panes. I always found that being able to access this info was immensely helpful, for example when setting up a playlist that must meet certain timing considerations (for ex. 30 mins total). Now you have to access the tracks metadata, one by one, to note the track durations and do the math yourself. I frankly do not understand why this was done. Would it be possible to revert here to the previous version behavior ?

I still appreciate this great app, I just want it to remain as good as it was before.

Thanks for your help
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Album and Composer lines are returning in the next app update available soon. Track / Album duration are likely to return in the version after that.

In the update, track and album titles in lists are unlimited in length (can spawn as many lines as necessary), including in the columnar view on tablets.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
If you added the NAT forwarding rules on your router, make sure a firewall (or secutiry suite) running on the machine on which BubbleUPnP Server runs is not preventing access on these ports. Also make sure you forwarded port 58050 to 58050 and not some other port.
[Android Apps and Games] V4lve:
You have mail [emoji1]
[Android Apps and Games] FF666:
Well no reply, so I searched some more on internet. I was mistaken, it has nothing to do with bubbleupnp, but with media server on the synology. Apparently you can set the device to display original art via option in DSM itself. I will try this later myself.
[Android Apps and Games] jesman0:
So the best thing to do is setup a VPN apparently cuz now it works.

I like the new skin on the android app, fits my tablet much nicer. Although, for some reason, album artwork seems to be extremely low res.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Try possible solutions here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/29j65d/failed_to_connect_to_google_play_services_for/
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP 2.0.2 published to Google Play, available shortly:

https://plus.google.com/115387584836830082266/posts/RnWLsW6WQo6
[Android Apps and Games] Haldi4803:
Hi,

The new Ui is awesome!

But there are two design flaws that I highly dislike

1. The play button in the play list. When I have 100 tracks or more in the queue and fast scroll I always pass the current playing track. If the whole track could be different color this would help.

2. The notification might be good for smartphones but on a 10" table here is so much empty space. It would be awesome I we could display a progress bar there.

I think this two things might help to create better usability.

Greetings Haldi
[Android Apps and Games] BartOoms:
Subtitles WD My Book Live running BubbleUPNP Server on WD Mediaserver

Bubblegum, very good work you have done with Bubbleupnp, I bought the app on android and I am using it to cast video from my Western Digital My Book Live 2TB to the chromecast with the Android App.

When I use the Android App and go to the WD DLNA server, so not the BubbleUPNP server also running on it, I can see the subtitles when I check it's library and when I run this with chromecast the subtitles are visible, meaning the DLNA WD sends the subtitle. But some videos are not supported by the chromecast, for example there is no sound.

Thats why BubbleUpnp server is so great, I can send everything to the Chromecast...except the subtitles.

When I look at the library of the BubbleUPNP server on the WD, for the video's which the chromecast cannot play, the subtitles are not visible? I saw that the WD My Book Live was supported? What can I do? How are the subtitles streamed with BubbleUpnp Server running.

Thank you for your help in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] Andre Gosselin:
Hi Bubbleguuum,

The update you referred to in your post must *not* be the one just released with v. 2.0.2, I cannot see those tracks and album titles with unlimited length spanning as many lines as necessary you were referring to. Maybe I do not know how to activate this feature, altough I carefully checked the available settings. Could you reassure me on this and clarify this issue please ?

Thanks for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] myvisione:
Thank you for the fixes. Your fast replies and the updates you make in tome are awesome - that's why I bought the app.

Any news on the not displaying cover artworks?

One question: In the Library at the top with the cover. Where is the background color coming from? Is this adjustable?
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
Just updated from 1.8.6 to 2.0.2. Now when BubbleUPnP starts it only shows a complete black UI. I can control playback with the notification mini player and widgets are also working. I even can tap the black UI and got the meta data popup.

Samsung Note 10.1 with Android 4.1.2. ARHD 11.2.
[Android Apps and Games] Steffen_2009:
Hi bubbleguum,

Thank you very much again for this great app.

With the new version.... There is one thing I am really missing : in 1.x settings it was possible under "display" to customize bubbleUpnp to show the album covers as really great half transparent backgrounds.

I really love that setting, but cannot find it in the new version, has it gone?

Could you perhaps please bring it back under "look and feel"?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Make a screenshot.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
fixed in v2.0.2.2
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
Thanks. It's Working. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] Andre Gosselin:
I have attached a screenshot of the Library screen after browsing to the album. If shown in full, track tiles should read as folllows:

101. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 -1. (Allegro)

102. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 -2. Adagio

103. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 -3. Allegro

104. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 -4. Menuet - Trio I - Menuet da capo - Polacca - Menuet da capo - Trio II - Menuet da capo

etc...

As you can see, title truncation is pretty severe (especially on track #4).

I am running BubbleUPnP v2.0.2.2 on a Nexus 7 tablet with Android v4.4.4 installed.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Purplepumpkin:
Issue resolved!
[Android Apps and Games] uszasty:
Now after 2.0.2 update Audio Cast work like gold. Thanks a lot! Now you can try add audiocasting to pulseaudio(like here: watch?v=o5-phFVfZnQ(it can be also set up under windows)) and this will be the best app on Google Play! :)

Edit: Yeah, can't post links :/
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ouch, that layout has been forgotten. I'll fix that for sure. If you add these tracks to the Playlist tab they should not be truncated (must verifiy).

Btw, display of track durations in title has made it: Settings > Library > Show item duration.
[Android Apps and Games] Titan.vl:
ffmpeg zombie processes

Hello BubbleUPnP developers,

First of all, thank you for the great app and the server. Don't slow down, keep it up! :good:

Second, yesterday I found a case in which BubbleUPnP server forks ffmpeg processes and doesn't kill them (zombies). I cast video from DLNA server (installed on WiFI router) via BubbleUPnP server (Windows 7 64 machine) to Chromecast by using Android device :)

How to reproduce:

1. Install Server 0.8.2 and start

2. Install Android BubbleUPnP 2.0.2.2 (use default settings, Chromecast -> Extract embedded subtitles must be Checked)

3. Media file: Video: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10), Audio: A52 Audio (aka AC3), Subtitles: Text subtitles with various tags (probably it could be reproduced with any other video with subtitles)

4. Keep an eye on Server machine process list, start the video, 2! ffmpeg processes started (I believe one of them is used for subtitles), stop video, only 1! ffpmeg stopped. If you continue like that, you would produce 1 zombie process per every start/stop.

I mention that issue only because each ffmpeg zombie keeps my WiFi router's CPU quite busy.

Workaround is quite simple:

BubbleUPnP app -> Settings -> Chromecast -> Extract embedded subtitles - Unchecked

I hope you guys will fix it soon ;)
[Android Apps and Games] OrTiN:
Please bring back hide option for renderer and libraries.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for the screenshots.

I have fixed all title truncations for all screenshots. No wonder Playlist in Album View mode was also truncated, as it is the exact same layout than in Album folders in Library.

Title length is now unlimited in that portrait screenshot, like it is in landscape.

Note that for album displays (whether in Playlist in ablum view mode or in Library), the track artist column (the 2nd collumn) is only displayed for a track if the track's artist is different than album artist (the most obvious case is compilations of unrelated artists, but not only).

For example, on screenshot 1, the 2nd column is displayed because album artist is "Biondi, Fabio, Europa Galante" while Album Artist is "Biondi, Fabio"
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I can't reproduce a zombie ffmpeg process on subtitle extraction.

When embedded subs are detected, a ffmpeg extraction process is spawned (independently of an eventual second ffmpeg instance that transcode, in case a transcode is performed) and Android BubbleUPnP displays a toast message about it. This ffmpeg subtitle extractor process can take some time to execute: the time it takes depends both on CPU speed and the video duration. For long movies it can take up to several minutes to complete until it (normally) dies.

Can you retest again, making sure you wait long enough after a ffmpeg sub extractor is spawn to verifiy whether it completes and die ?

If you still get ffmpeg process that never die, please send me the BubbleUPnP Server log file (BubbleUPnPServer.log.0). So I have a minimal log file, make sure to stop the server, remove the log file, restart the server then trigger the issue.
[Android Apps and Games] jhb50:
Image Slide show "Zoom Out"

Bug: Leaves a large fragment of the previously "zoomed out" 5x4 image on the left side of screen. (or right side if in "reverse slide show")
[Android Apps and Games] Andre Gosselin:
Thanks a lot for those fixes. I look forward to see them!

As for the layout difference noted in Playlist tab, track view mode, when tablet is switched between portrait and landscape orientations (screenshot 5 vs 6), is this normal behavior or will it be fixed also ?

Regards,
[Android Apps and Games] jhb50:
Audio Player incorrect bitrate/hz

When playing Audio, the codec/bitrate/hz are displayed just above the playbar.

When I play Shoutcast radio station streams, the bitrate always displays as 48kbps, regardless of the source stream bitrate, and the hz are absent if the stream hz is 44.1 and always displays 48hz iif the stream hz is other than 44.1 ie: 22.05, 16,24,32 etc.

My tests with ffmpeg show the correct values so Bubble should the correct bitrate and hz as it does for local videos.
[Android Apps and Games] jhb50:
Devices Menu - Duplicate entries

When Local Renderer or Local MediaServer are chosen, the expanded menu V shows the alternate devices/libraries you may select. In my case my TV and my Serviio Server. However if either of these alternates are chosen, the expanded menu, shows the alternate local options but repeats the current selections. See the two captures.
[Android Apps and Games] FF666:
Really love this app. It looks beautiful now. And it's the most complete and best performing upnp app ever.

I do still have some trouble with cover artwork though, it can take really long for it to display an image. I tried kinsky as an alternative and although I don't really like the program it does show cover artwork immediately. Even when browsing a complete list of albums it displays the covers within seconds.

In bubble when I display all the albums browsing the library it almost never shows artwork. Sometimes it does and I have no idea what triggers it.

I use synology NAS with mediaserver.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This is as expected, so 3 dots context menu of the current media server/render can still be accessed. For some specific media servers this menu cn contain specfic actions.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Where do these shoutcast streams come from ? Another app ? You entered the stream URL manually ? An external media server that lists shoutcast streams ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
known issue, hard to fix...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP rely on the media server for album art URLs. Some media server do things differently with album art, depending on the browsing client (eg BubbleUPnP or Kinsky). Things to try:

- clear the thumbnail cache in Settings > Library

- try with caching disabled,in Settings > Library

- check your Syonlogy media server configuration
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The horizontal layout with 3 colums is only used when the screen width is sufficient in portrait, which is usually the case only on 10" tablets.
[Android Apps and Games] jhb50:
I don't know how to get bubble to play a streamURL directly, or get a stream from another app. I'd be happy to test that if you tell me how.

I can only play streams sent by Serviio using its "online" support and these audio streams sent from a "Shoutcast plugin" or from a direct url eg: http://46.165.208.87:80 display these incorrect values. Perhaps the online streams do not contain the correct values in which case they should not be displayed. I cannot test that directly since neither by TV nor ServiioGo attempt to display the bitrate or hz but ffmpeg does show the bitrate and hz values of the stream correctly, so they should be OK for bubble.

---------- Post added at 03:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:19 PM ----------

@bubble Thanks for your responses to my latest posts.

Did you miss this previous post?. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?&p=53802996 Your 2.0.2 corrected #4 but #1,#2 and #3 still need a fix.

Also, regarding no local subs displaying on Samsung, can I get you any additional info on how Serviio is making these work when sent to Samsung directly or via the Serviio library using Bubble. I assume the same would work for the Bubble Local Media Server.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I added that shoutcast stream in Serviio online sources, and Serviio reportts its bitrate as 48Kbps to BubbleUPnP which just displays that value. So this is a Serviio issue:

You can also add streams URL in BubbleUPnP with Menu > Add Stream URL in the Playlist tab (or any saved playlist in Library). In that case BubbleUPnP will just display "MP3".

Shoucast streams can also be sent from the XiiaLive app. This is explained in Settings > About/Help > Tips.

#1,#2 and #3: I didn't understand it on first read and had to release 2.0.2. I will reread it.

Samsung: still no idea why Serviio works and not the local media server. I need to check what Serviio returns to the TV by emulating the TV's requests.
[Android Apps and Games] tommi.a:
Please put the album year into the display of the list of albums as it was possible in old GUI.

For me this is really important because only with the album names and cover pictures it's almost impossible to guess how old an album is and this is an important criteria for me to select albums.

Also I know from thanks to my previous comments regarding this topic that also other users are interested in this.

Attached pictures show clearly that there's enough space to display this tiny information (4 digit number).
[Android Apps and Games] testalino:
First of all, I wanna thank you for this great app.

Here are two issus that are bugging me. Setup: Latest Bubble + Foobar Server + Foobar Renderer on Win8

I pause a song, leave the house and then start Bubble again when back. I can see the last song and start it again, but after around 10 seconds the system jumps to the next song in the playlist

Skipping is super slow. When I press skip 3 times it will play each song for 3 seconds before it reaches the final song which is then played normally.

Maybe this is an issue with Foobar, but I don't have any other UPNP-Renderer to test it with.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] Steffen_2009:
Hello bubbleguum,

I am still searching the good old display function of background covers.

Where is it in the new version?

I also tried to go back to 1.8.6 under

http://bubblesoftapps.com/BubbleUpnp/1.8.6/BubbleUPnP.apk,

but I get a 404 error message.

What else can I do, I am using the full license version...?
[Android Apps and Games] uszasty:
I wrote a post here around 24h before and don't get any answer to it, so in case you don't saw this: After update 2.0.2.2 audiocast works like gold, thanks :) I'm suggested PulseAudio compatibility for audiocast like in this video: watch?v=o5-phFVfZnQ

Also, found a bug: sometimes license don't load fast enough and if you run audiocast very fast sometimes it's run in 20min evaluation mode. Not a big deal, but yeah.
[Android Apps and Games] MikaelFolkesson:
Would it be possible to turn off some safety thing to decrease the audio buffer? 1000 ms is pretty much if you want to for instance play a game and get the audio to the computer.
[Android Apps and Games] jhb50:
Using the data from the log, I have raised a ticket with Serviio. https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/issue/793/audio-stream-output-metadata-is-incorrect

They seem unique to video because audio seems to queue and display "now playing" correctly.

I'll try and look at this too. If I tell Serviio that my tab is a Samsung it might show something in the log. I'll also ask Petr.
[Android Apps and Games] bv90andy:
mkv playing only when it wants to

I have some mkv files and it seems that one day it will play them fine, and on others it gives "no streaming url available [something with known issue with non standard wmp files]" why would this be?

I'm using chromecast by the way, playing from my pc with the server installed.

Edit: I copied the file to my tablet and it's playing just fine.

Here's media info:
[Android Apps and Games] myvisione:
Hey bubbleguuum,

after some intense use in the last few days there is one thing which is really missing.

When I stop a playlist and exit the app (e.g. I go to work) and in the evening I want to restart the playlist, it is not possible to see in the playlist which has been the last played track where I stopped. I can only see it in now playing then go to the playlist and search for the song and start the next one.

Is it possible to have this feature back?
[Android Apps and Games] tonyp22:
Bubbleguuum, any thoughts on this? Does anyone else experience very long search times with large (>10,000 song) music libraries?
[Android Apps and Games] rifmouk:
thanks for your answer.

a grid view is good thing for me.

bye
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The correct link is http://bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnp/1.8.6/BubbleUPnP.apk
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. That's due to a timeout on no data read either in the renderer (eg foobar2000 code) or the media server (foo_upnp). IIRC foo_upnp doesn't use a timeout.

2. this is a foobar2000 issue which is notoriously slow in mp3 seek over network sources
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Audio Cast is not for use when real time audio with lag < 1s is required (games, audio synced with videos, ...).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Servier-side search times depends entirely on the media server: normally it should be as fast searching 100 tracks than 10000 or 100000.

But in practice that's often not the case with search times increasing as library size increase.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
2 solutions:

- in the playlist tab, use Menu > Show Playing. It actually shows the current track (the one visible in Now Playing), whether it is playing or not

- enable Settings > Playlist > Cursor follows playback: each time you enter the Playlist tab, the current track is made visible
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Are you using Windows Media Player (WMP) as the media server ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for the report, if you strip data streams, adding "-map -0:d", does it work ? :
[Android Apps and Games] bv90andy:
Yes, well whatever comes with Windows 7, I think it's that.

In the past I've tried a few upnp servers (for different things, not since playing with this app). What do you recommend?

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This "no stream URL" error is really characteristic of WMP. It happens with files not natively supported by WMP (such as MKV) which may be playable locally (if you installed a codec pack) but not via UPnP/DLNA (WMP lists them but do not set a stream URL to play them!).

I suggest Serviio for video and MinimServer for audio.
[Android Apps and Games] Yakuzza123:
i have yet another audiocast issue, i can´t select audiocast, i installed xposed i downloaded the modules and activated them, i restarted my nexus 7 with 4.4.4, but i can not select audiocast as a source, i can´t find it under media, cloud and bookmarks, i have activated it under settings tho
[Android Apps and Games] FF666:
There is simply a button in the left tab: audiocast. There you can turn it on and off.

Oh and don't make the same problem as me to select an openhome renderer, that won't work (with me anyway) I had to select the normal renderer.

Good luck
[Android Apps and Games] tonyp22:
But if the only thing I change is which UPnP app I'm using on my tablet (from BubbleUPnP to UP#Play), why does the search time decrease to such a significant degree?
[Android Apps and Games] Stuvic:
v2.0.2.2 - How do I ereload saved playlists?

Since the adroid app auto updated to 2.0.2.2 I cannot find how to reload a saved playlist. If I chose the option of 'add to saved playlist' I can see previously saved playlists to append to, but I can't find anywhere to be able to reload them.
[Android Apps and Games] elenhil:
AutoCast on OpenHome renderer error

I wish there was a bug tracker. I can't play AutoCast on the openhome variant of the local renderer in the Android app. Something about not enough IN arguments.