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[Android Apps and Games] lmsvvavr:
Hi

Question here...

I have been using this app for about 4 years now, really happy with everything, even though I only use it to stream audio from my synology to an android device running an app called "dancer"... an kind of Airplay... which in turn sends the Audio to an amplifier and then to the entire house... compartment selectable...

Anyway, if I have the app opened on a device playing a playlist, and I open the app on another device, is there a way to make it to detect that the app is already opened on the network, and because all the media is in the same server, just retrieve the playlist from the first device and perhaps give the option to close the app on that other device?

I know is a bit of a very custom/specific request... if possible, I can't find it on the app...
[Android Apps and Games] dark0shark:
Maybe I got you wrong, but did you try to create an OpenHome renderer of your Android device on the Synology NAS with https://bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver2/ ? You can control that renderer from several controls.
[Android Apps and Games] EPa:
It works, thank you!

Also FYI, no minimstreamer is necessary (have never installed it).
[Android Apps and Games] lmsvvavr:
Have not tried that... Good idea... i will have a go...

Thanks!

---------- Post added at 11:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:33 AM ----------

Worked beautifully...

Should have researched this years ago...

Finally don't need to keep going to the device I firstly opened the playlist to edit it or change it...

Thank you very much!
[Android Apps and Games] macelaru:
I've changed my computer a month ago and (probably) since then I cannot transcode with BubbleUPNP Server, only local on mobile.

I have Serviio and Bubble Server on my computer, Bubble on my mobile and Chromecast 2 for TV. Everything works fine but transcoding only local.

I miss something when I've installed Servio/Bubble Server on my new computer? :confused:

It's not a big problem but I'm intrigued.

LE: Disregard that. I'm dumb as a stone. It was firewall. :o

Now everything is fine.

Sry to waste your time.
[Android Apps and Games] CaptainPlut0:
foobar2000 remote server - BubbleUPnP status error

I just downloaded foobar2000 on my desktop, laptop, and phone. I got the local network stuff running ok (although I can't seem to find a way to get my library to stream to foobar on my laptop, it only goes to my phone). I've been trying to start up a server for the past few days but I keep running into to an error with BubbleUPnP, every time I try to connect it to the internet it fails and gives me this: HTTP: ERROR: Cannot connect. Check that the public host name is valid and that port 58050 is opened on your router. I've port forwarded as well as unblocked the ports through my firewall. The hostname could be a source of error, although i've tried looking around and the only one I can find is the one that BubbleUPnP automatically recommends. Can anyone lend a hand? (I'm running windows 10 with an amplifi router if that makes any difference)[IMG="BubbleUPnP status error"]https://imgur.com/a/uGk19ZX[/IMG]
[Android Apps and Games] KraftwerkElectro:
I noticed from at least the last 2 updates (could be 3) that something had changed with the cover: The cover was filling the whole area dedicated to the album cover.

I went into settings and tried each one (I couldn't remember what setting I had before) and found 'On (keep aspect ratio)' is what I like, but the size of the cover keeps adjusting size when moving back and forward between this app and others.

It did that months ago but the problem seems to be back.

Has something changed in the app for this to happen again?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5341153]KraftwerkElectro[/MENTION]

Yes something has changed to fix cover being sometimes truncated bugs.

Can you describe exactly what you are doing to trigger this problem and what happens ?

Or eventually make a short video ?
[Android Apps and Games] KraftwerkElectro:
It's just happened now.

The cover was displayed correctly.

I swiped to look at 'Playlist', swiped back to 'Now Playing' and the cover had reduced in size.

The cover corrects itself if I touch the app from the notification area of my mobile.

The problem also happens when I leave your app, view another app, then come back to your app, the cover reduces in size.

Just chose another album to play from 'Playlist', swiped back to 'Now playing' and I could see for a split second that it was showing the correct size but then reduced in size.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5341153]KraftwerkElectro[/MENTION]

Thanks for the description.

What device and Android version do you have to I can try to reprod it in the Android emulator ?
[Android Apps and Games] KraftwerkElectro:
I use your app on my Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus mobile.

Android version: 8.1
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5341153]KraftwerkElectro[/MENTION]

Problem reproduced. I think it only happens on 16:9 devices with "scale to fit, preserve aspect ratio", which is not the default.

Will fix.
[Android Apps and Games] Mansumeet02:
Help

Is there any way that i watch the video on my tv but the sount comes from my phone (so i can listen with headphones on tv)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=8972848]Mansumeet02[/MENTION]

Not possible. Even if technically it would be (although horribly complicated) you'd have to manually sync audio and video each time you play anything,

which is too cumbersome and clunky.
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
Hi bubbleguuum, I have an issue that you probably don't care about, but I thought I'd ask anyway....

I just the Fiio M6 digital audio player which is Android based. It doesn't have Play store, but the manufacturer allows side loading additional apps into the device. I wanted to try to use BubbleUPnP on it, so I extracted the app and the license from one of my phones and installed them on the Fiio. I quickly realized that running the app without the license works fine with every feature I tried (mostly streaming music from my UPnP server)l, but the moment that I install the license app, the main app crashes almost immediately. I was wondering if you may have some insight into what the problem might be. It sound be great to get BubbleUPnP fully working on this device.
[Android Apps and Games] dark0shark:
Hello, in Mediathek view the spacing of directories is nearly doubled comparing Minimserver with Diskstation, both from Synology NAS, see screenshots. Would love to view Minimserver ones in same narrow spacing as Diskstation.
[Android Apps and Games] Lara12:
When downloading subtitles for a video, it will be nice to associate it with the full path of the video that is playing.

Let me explain, I 'm currently watching a show that is a blu-ray image folder. The show is split into 2 disc and the episodes are in files 57 to 68. When watching episodes from the second disc I end up seeing the subtitles I downloaded for the episodes in the first disc.

It is really annoying when you re-watch the episodes and you must re-download the subtitles again especially when it takes too long to find the one that is in sync.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5128593]dark0shark[/MENTION]

That's because on that MinimServer folder shown in the screenshot there is likely a music track (not visible, likely at the very end of the list) besides just folders. Move that track elsewhere (on the server), trigger a MinimServer rescan, and you will have a more compact item height.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=283271]mrbo[/MENTION]

The Google Play license will not work as it requires a Google account to be setup as well as the Google Play Store.

However you should be able to install the Amazon version (and purchase it if you want) . It requires

- an Amazon account

- to install the Amazon appstore app and keep it installed

To install the Amazon appstore, visit this link on your Fiio:

https://www.amazon.com/getappstore

Once installed you can install BubbleUPnP from there and purchase its Amazon license as an in-app purchase.
[Android Apps and Games] Toberius:
Hi there, I have apart of bubbleupnp a time ago, and now return with it but now I'm ussing like server MPD with its client upmpdcli.

BubbleUpnp can see the MPD, show me the current playing, but no access to file list at server.

BubbleUpnp on select library tab, show me Uprcl and when tap there, this error I get: “Browse error: Current state of service prevents invoking that action. Connection error or no response received”

What's wrong from me?

My best.
[Android Apps and Games] dark0shark:
Thank you for this suggestion, but there is no single file in this directory. Any other idea?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5128593]dark0shark[/MENTION]

This can also be caused by MinimServer sending album art for at least one of the folder listed, which increase item height for all folders (this is so you do not get varying item heights).

If you can configure MinimServer to not set album art on these folders, you will get a more compact listing.
[Android Apps and Games] dark0shark:
Bingo! In one of the ~600 subdirs I found mp3 files, which should have been in a subsubdir. Thanks a lot for your advice.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=8378181]Toberius[/MENTION]

upmpdcli is a just renderer and only plays audio, it does not expose the MPD database as an UPnP/DLNA media server.
[Android Apps and Games] Toberius:
[MENTION=3373153]bubbleguuum[/MENTION] thanks for response, and I see that from upmpdcli.

In MPD settings is the key.
[Android Apps and Games] studavis:
I mentioned this many many many pages ago and I don't think that we have an answer yet. I run Bubble as an Android app on my Chromebook. Everything works good (UPnP, local media etc) except for cloud services. I can access the files, but when I try to send them to my Chromecast Ultra it takes about 3 minutes (no kidding) for the status bar to start moving on the CC and ultimately the file doesn't play.

I'm not sure whether it's something to do with the potential re-encoding that needs to take place to support the CC or whether it's just fundamentally not able to play when installed on a Chromebook?
[Android Apps and Games] nextheart:
I connect directly my android MI TV to hotspot of my mobile device. BubbleUPnP can cast from my mobile device till I don't disable internet in my mobile device. Once I disable internet connection of mobile device, BubbleUPnP stops casting. I have checked other casting apps like Localcast, All Screen, CastItAll etc. Each app requires internet connection at startup of casting, but they can continue casting if internet connection is disabled in mobile device. Please look into this.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5755019]studavis[/MENTION]

Networking on Android on ChromeOS does not work like regular Android: whether external devices can stream media managed by BubbleUPnP (Local and Cloud library) is highly unreliable.

Sometimes external devices just cannot join BubbleUPnP on its ip:port.

There is no workaround for it, it is just caused by the suboptimal way Google has implemented networking for incoming connection, with the container running Android not having a normal ip address like any other machine on the local network, but a special ip in Shared Address Space that works unreliably.

Though if it is the issue I think it is, you should have it both for playing a local music file stored in the Android container storage and for cloud services. If you have this issue only for the later, let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=7351744]nextheart[/MENTION]

Please send me a log file, attempting to play a media that fails to play in the "disabled internet connection" state. See first post of this topic for logging instructions.
[Android Apps and Games] Be4st187:
Got a bit of an issue that I cannot seem to resolve. I am using BubbleUPnP to cast content from Kodi (Elementum addon) and regardless of whether I use my TV or local renderer, the video stops at 54 seconds. I am using a Oneplus 6 on Android Q, Bubble and Kodi are both disabled from battery optimisations and I have even gone as far as disabling doze, all optimisations, static IP address, keeping screen on, tethering both wifi and data together just in case it's a wifi issue, but I still cannot get the video to continue after 54 seconds. It's 54 seconds every time and it doesn't matter what video I play.

Any ideas on how to fix this? I don't recall having this issue when I was using the OP6 with a custom ROM.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Is that an iptv stream ? Some of them comes in chunk on x seconds and require to be looped to appear continuous, which cannot technically work with UPNP renderers.
[Android Apps and Games] Be4st187:
I don't think so. Kodi is streaming an active downloading torrent, so maybe, as I believe they are in blocks
[Android Apps and Games] MB525:
I have problems with Tidal for a few days now. Authentication failure when used with external mpd renderer on a Raspberry Pi (upmpdcli 1.49) even with proxy function. Only local playback works. Am i the only one?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=3341317]MB525[/MENTION]

Also answered by email:

This is a known issue (due to some TIDAL back-end changes) and an upmdpcli issue, as it is responsible of doing TIDAL authentication

as an OpenHome renderer with TIDAL support.

I have notified its developer as there is an easy fix.

In the meantime, you can switch to using upmpdcli as an UPnP AV renderer which will make BubbleUPnP login

to TIDAL instead (which works).

For this edit the upmpdcli configuration file and openhome=0 and upnpav=1.

With upmpdcli configured as such, you will need to keep BubbleUPnP running to perform Playlist track advance.
[Android Apps and Games] sweetsuicides:
I'm really sorry to bother you here, but there's something I would like to find out: I have the bubble upnp on my phone and I cast (with transcoding!) my media to Chromecast et al. I obviously have the license. I kinda recall there was a way to share the license with my wife. Is it possible? Am I mistaken?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5821893]sweetsuicides[/MENTION]

You can share your 'BubbleUPnP License' app purchase with up to 5 family members with Google Play Family Library

(if you are in a country eligible for it. Most are).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
New BubbleUPnP 3.4.7p1 beta available (shortly on Google Play to beta subscribers or APK Download).

Changelog

Please test, especially if running on Android 10 due to the new targetSdkVersion 29 (Android 10).

.
[Android Apps and Games] DrAbraham:
Is there any way to get the Bubbleupnp app on my android phone to transcode the audio when rendering on a Samsung Q7 TV?

Background: I bought a router, connected a external harddrive to the router so I can keep all my movies there and not have to have my computer on all the time. The HDD on the router shows up as a uPNP server and everything works fine, and lots of older movies work fine on all devices . But some newer once with more fancy audio codecs I guess just say "The audio data is not supported" on my new Samsung Q7 tv. I have tried a lot of the settings under "individual uPnP/DNLA renderer settings" but nothing seems to work, seems like I just cant get the app to transcode the audio.

Is it even possible to do in some way, or should I just invest in a new chromecast for my new tv too? (have an old chromecast on my old tv and works fine to stream the same movies to it)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=10818537]DrAbraham[/MENTION]

BubbleUPnP supports tanscoding audio in videos only for Chromecast. There is no general support as it is horribly complicated and untestable.

There are transcoding media servers such as Serviio that come with a bunch of transcoding profiles for various TV, but you will need to run it a machine on your network as it will not run on your router.
[Android Apps and Games] wudangnic:
Hi! I have purchased the pro version license of Bubble on play store but I decided to get ride of google & co so now I'm on lineage os without google services. Is there any solution to use the pro version without installing play store or amazon store?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=849790]wudangnic[/MENTION]

There is no solution. The Google Play 'BubbleUPnP License' app requires the Play Store and the Amazon version of the license requires to keep the Amazon appstore installed.
[Android Apps and Games] jakepl:
Hi, i am using BubbleUpnp to send Tidal audio to foobar 2000 in a windows 10 pc. Playback stops at the end of a track very frequently. However if I play content from my windows library the playback is perfect.What am I doing wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] nextheart:
I mean that currently playing video plays fine, but next video can't be played.
[Android Apps and Games] Airman8:
Partial transcodes and delays

I'm getting around a 30 second playback delay on my phone from the time I start playing a file on my remote server (a Raspberry Pi 3 B+). When I watch the log, I can see that the transcoding process starts a few seconds after I press play (I think because the hard disk is a bit slow to access), but it often takes about 20 seconds longer to hear anything.

Also, every song that starts transcoding ends up aborting part-way through, so a partial file is saved to the cache on the server and downloaded to my phone. After a partial file ends, the next one begins right away, but it too is cut off part way. After pressing pause, I get another long delay before the server responds. Sometimes I'll see an error message pop up on my phone:

Current state of service prevents invoking that action. Failed to execute command with delay: 30000 (code: 501)

Here's a section of the log that might be relevant:

[qtp26359340-84 (84) ] INFO - 0:14:41.204 - .FFMpegUtils : added cached probe info for <not a link>192.168.1.12:9790/minimserver/*/file.flac_flac_, expires in 236 seconds
[qtp26359340-84 (84) ] INFO - 0:14:41.206 - .u : begin transcoding mp3 @ 320K...(not a link>192.168.1.12:9790/minimserver/*/file.flac)
[qtp26359340-84 (84) ] INFO - 0:14:41.210 - .u : transcode process started: ffmpeg -i 192.168.1.12:9790/minimserver/*/file.flac -ab 320000 -id3v2_version 3 -af aresample=resampler=soxr:precision=28 -vn -f mp3 /home/pi/.bubbleupnpserver/cache/87a54a38cf8e9698b694849180f16fd4.mp3
[qtp26359340-84 (84) ] INFO - 0:14:41.213 - .u : writing transcoded stream to file...: /home/pi/.bubbleupnpserver/cache/87a54a38cf8e9698b694849180f16fd4.mp3
[qtp26359340-90 (90) ] INFO - 0:15:10.178 - .u : serving transcoded cached file: /home/pi/.bubbleupnpserver/cache/87a54a38cf8e9698b694849180f16fd4.mp3
[qtp26359340-116 (116) ] INFO - 0:15:10.232 - .u : serving transcoded cached file: /home/pi/.bubbleupnpserver/cache/87a54a38cf8e9698b694849180f16fd4.mp3
[qtp26359340-87 (87) ] INFO - 0:15:10.482 - .u : serving transcoded cached file: /home/pi/.bubbleupnpserver/cache/87a54a38cf8e9698b694849180f16fd4.mp3
[qtp26359340-84 (84) ] INFO - 0:15:19.574 - .u : finished transcoding
[qtp26359340-84 (84) ] INFO - 0:15:19.576 - .u : serving transcoded cached file: /home/pi/.bubbleupnpserver/cache/87a54a38cf8e9698b694849180f16fd4.mp3
[qtp26359340-84 (84) ] INFO - 0:15:19.670 - .u : finished transcoding (aborted)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5067471]Airman8[/MENTION]

What version of Android BubbleUPnP are you using for playback (to check: More > gear icon > About/Help > Version) ?

Also can you check the configuration.xml file of the server and verify

that you have:

<transcodeAudioSeekable>false</transcodeAudioSeekable>

If it is set to true, stop the server, edit the file to set it to false, restart the server.

Your log traces corresponds to either this setting being true or using an old Android version that had an option to enable it client side (in More > gear icon > Internet access with BubbleUPnP Server > Seekable tracks. This option does not exist anymore in recent versions).

This is what is causing the problem because when true, the server transcode fully the track before serving it (to make it seekable), hence the delay.

This is acceptable on fast machine (a few seconds), not so much on others.
[Android Apps and Games] ilfrick:
Hello. Awesome app, purchased the paid version ages ago and been a happy user since. I have one feature request: streaming audio from dlna source to local audio player other than bubbleupnp app itself (e.g. Poweramp).

Am I allowed to hope?

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] rdsu:
So don't exists a way to send the equalization to the renderer without audio decoding, through UPnP?
[Android Apps and Games] Airman8:
Thanks a lot for the prompt reply!

The Android client version is 3.4.7, just updated today, and the server version is 0.9-update37.

I found that my configuration.xml did indeed have <transcodeAudioSeekable> set to true. After I set value to false, the behaviour of the server looked exactly like it did when I first got it working a few years ago, and issues went away.

I must have changed the value a while back thinking that seekable audio is better than not. It certainly isn't better than smooth playback, though. Thanks again! :)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Correct, as equalization is some form of DSP.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=6149085]ilfrick[/MENTION]

Would be possible if Poweramp implemented UPnP renderer functionality, in which case you'd be able to select it in BubbleUPnP for playing to it.

Unlikely to happen though. There are audio players apps that do have an UPnP renderer. USB Audio Player Pro in particular and maybe Neutron.
[Android Apps and Games] KraftwerkElectro:
Just tried the latest released version.

I mentioned a problem with album covers not keeping their size.

The cover now keeps its correct size but when swiping to 'Playlist' and picking a track from a different album, the album cover does not change. It shows the cover of the previous album.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5341153]KraftwerkElectro[/MENTION]

I've pushed a hotfix (3.4.7.1) for this regression that should be available very soon now.
[Android Apps and Games] Ammitz:
I donot know much about tech behind this bubble upnp app but I have a fire tv stick 2nd gen which I think natively donot support hevc codec.

I read in description - chromcast transcoding for unsupported codecs.

Cannot this functionality be developed for fire tv stick which transcodes the unsupported codecs and then send to fire tv stick to enable it to play.

I used the current app , and have MxPlayer installed on fire tv stick. Also i stalled receiver on it. It could play hevc video via mxplayer, but audio sync is a problem. Its same as storing a video in fire tv stick memory and playing it back on MxPlayer. No lags for simple videos, but not with hevc. Can that transcoding thing be implemented for fire tv stick?
[Android Apps and Games] KraftwerkElectro:
Is it possible to have an option to automatically save current Playlist and settings when exiting the app?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5308801]Ammitz[/MENTION]

Video transcoding is only supported for Chromecast currently.

There is no plan to add video transcoding for other renderers currently.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5341153]KraftwerkElectro[/MENTION]

Not sure what you mean: the content of the Playlist tab is always saved as well as the app settings.
[Android Apps and Games] KraftwerkElectro:
Sorry, should have explained better.

In settings: Import/Export data, can that be saved automatically each time I exit app?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No plan to add such functionality. There are way too many settings already :/

Why would you want to save this on each app exit ? The import/export functionality is in case of

app reinstall, or to transfer it to another install (which also can be done directly with 'Import from running BubbleUPnP instance')