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[Android Apps and Games] gabeg2:
Gapless workaround?

I'm new to all this but here goes:

I use a ps audio Perfect Wave Dac with bridge (renderer). It has a problem with gapless but, a workaround is to use foobar with its UPnP MediaRenderer Output 1.0 beta 4 plug in. It essentially presents the renderer with an ongoing stream. It works really well but I'm looking to use j.river.

Can your software take the upnp output from j.river and provide a constant stream that will allow gapless with my device? Would it be bit perfect?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bubblefan:
BubbleUPnP Streaming problems with filesize > 1 MB

Hello,

BubbleUpnP works quit good on my Galaxy tab 10.1. But it seems that there is a problems with jpg files larger than 1MB at the cloud. In this case a message appears like error on downloading file.

Any ideas?

BubbleUpnP Version 1.7.1 free release. Is there any difference between license and free release for this?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Gapless is handled identically on all renderers supporting it.

For gapless playback to work, the renderer must expose a command named "SetNextAVTransportURI".

However, the presence of this command does not mean that gapless will work, but only that it *may* work.

Sometimes the SetNextAVTransportURI command is present but does nothing. Sometimes it does someting but is broken.

Hence the "potentially supported" description in BubbleUPnP. Before, it reported "supported", but too many people assumed it would work while it wouldn't for the reasons explained above.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Not until I release a new version.

You can revert to v1.6.11.1 in the meantime
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. Tethering can be problematic for discovery with the issues you describe. It seems some tethering implementations do not support sending discovery SSDP packets

(or are broken with that) but support receiving them. Sometimes startup order of both BubbleUPnP instances do matter.

Which device is playing media and which device is serving it ?

2. likely a problem not related to BubbleUPnP like spiky WiFi bandwidth or buffering problem in the video player app you are using

3. Bug in your video player app, possibly only happening with http streaming. BubbleUPnP has no concept of synced audio when you play a video: it just serves the file.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. OK. I'm aware of this issue on smaller screens and only in landscape

2. Most likely to be and issue with your renderer because seeking works with all the renderer I have (and if it didn't, I would get a deluge of complaints). What is your renderer ?

3. It is exactly that: a timeout error after 5s of the server not responding. IIRC the logitech server is super slow at search requests (which are used for Shuffle Library).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No it cannot since JRMC doesn't provide such a continuous stream accessible by BubbleUPNP (for control).

But you can install JamCast and its virtual sound card feature which capture audio at the system level (thus works with any program).

But it will probably not be bit perfect for anything else than 44.1Khz / 16 bits / stereo.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. Looks more like an Android bluetooth bug. BubbleUPnP has no concept of bluetooth when playing locally: it is Android that automatically route regular audio out to bluetooth if required.

When your stereo shows "Paused", is BubbleUPnP paused in the Now Playing screen (blinking elapsed time) ?

2. That can happen due to http idle timeouts preventing unlimited pausing. This timeout depends on the media server serving the file. This could somewhat be fixed in BubbleUPnP but no promise. What is the media server for which you observed this issue ?

3. will look into it

Request 1: I believe this is done through AVRCP. It is in the todo list but requires that I have a compatible AVRCP device for testing.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Which cloud ?

No, it will be the same.
[Android Apps and Games] krugert:
old phone as media renderer

Hi all,

I want to reuse an old Samsung Galaxy S 1 (i9000) as a Media Renderer, remomote controlleable via my tablet or phone.

So got the latest CM (10.1.2 / Android 4.2.2) on the device and installed Voodoo Sound to unleash the full potential of the Wolfson DAC.

Man, now I have a good Media Player which sounds really nice connected to my old, but powerfull Mosfet-Amp.

To make it remote controllable I think I need BubbleUPNP. But I have some questions:

To make the renderer remote controllable, I need to purchase the licence, right? Because I read in the limitations of the free version: "the local renderer is not remotely controllable by external Control Points"

Is the licence account or device dependent? So do I need to buy 1 licence or 3 (old Galaxy, tablet and phone)?

To get full functionallity, is it enought to have the licence installed on the control point? or on control point and renderer?

I am asking, because while I have no problem buying the licence on my phone or tablet, which both have google play store and all the other stuff installed, I do want to avoid installing GApps on the old galaxy S. I wank to keep it simple having installed only the minimum of apps, I don`t want all these services running in the background.

Or is it possible, but I should ask it in the right forum, to uninstall all the other apps exept the play store, or only install play store?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You need the license on the renderer. Thus you will need Google Play installed on the renderer. If rooted you can probably just install

the Google Play apk (no need for all gapps).

You only need to purchase it once and you can install it on as many devices as you want as long as you use the same Google account than used for the purchase. For full functionality you'll need to install it on the controller too.
[Android Apps and Games] raducux:
I couldn't find a search button on YouTube... Am i not seeing it? I didnt have time to look through all 388 pages to see if it was questioned before.

Sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] vampyrex13:
Bug 1. BubbleUPnP plays, but no sound comes from my phone or my stereo.

Bug 2. Ok, that sucks.

Bug 3. Thanks.

Request 1: Cool. I think that would solve bug 1 if you implement AVRCP.
[Android Apps and Games] swiss420:
BubbleUPnP

I just wanted to thank you bubbleguuum for creating BubbleUPnP. No other UPnP Software out there seemed to work as well as yours. Not Acers, not MediaHouse, and not even Samsungs implementation. Almost dident give it a fair try but when I saw that you are a XDA Member I went ahead and tried it out.

By now I am using all the available features daily. Streaming Music/Audio Books/Videos to my Car Nav, streaming Music to my Galaxy Note, and easely controll my Videos on my 46" Samsung TV through my 21" Acer Smart Display (Acer DA220HQL). Even when visiting friends I dont have to carry anything else then my Phone with me and still have my Petabytes of Movies and MP3 available to stream to my friends TV's. Extremely Cool.

It is just bubbelicious. Definetly worth the Money.
[Android Apps and Games] texneus:
2. ERmmm, well, you probably won't like my answer then, but the renderer is the player built into BubbleUPnP client itself (on Android). I don't know if this is a recent problem or not, I just 'scrubbed' the first time the other night because I wanted to move to the end of a song doing some testing. I don't normally have a reason to scrub. Double checked again tonight, still doing it..

3. Understood. Just curious (and I would encourage more answers than just Bubbleguuum's), but what DLNA servers do people successfully use with Bubble PnP that supports searching (and thereby features such as library shuffle, random tracks, etc)? Searching seems to be a hard to find feature. Logitech Media Server was a complete accident since I have to run it for my old squeezebox stuff, but it is proving to be a very competent DLNA server for music...except that it is indeed sluggish in other areas besides search...

Thanks again!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That's definitely unusual. Please send me a log file seeking in a track that fails to seek (see first post of this topic for instructions)

Twonky and Jamcast are good choices with excellent search support. Twonky runs on almost all platforms. Jamcast is Windows only.

WMP is also good at search but limited in other areas like codec support and sloooow browse speed.

And soon the excellent minimserver will be in the list of servers supporting search.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thank you for the feedback!
[Android Apps and Games] slopokdave:
I think my question got lost in the shuffle... :)

Can I stream to more than one Sonos device at a time? Thanks again!
[Android Apps and Games] danwooller:
You can only select one renderer at a time, so you'll have to pick one and group the players in the Sonos app.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I just released a new app named "Cast To UPnP/DLNA for GMusic". It is now available on Google Play.

It allows to play cloud Google Music, uploaded and All Access (including radio) to any UPnP / DLNA device, directly from the Google Play Music app itself. See the Google+ post for details and a video of it in action.

Google Play listing

Google+ post
[Android Apps and Games] sidkumar:
Awesome app! Some minor issues, maybe me

First of all, this is the most wonderful combination of app and BubbleSoft Server. Well done for developing this, it beats everything else currently in the market.

Here are few things I have noticed, though it could just be me:

1. Sleep Timer: It does not work if the check box of "Play until end of track" is selected. The whole Playlist plays.

2. Inactivity Timer: Does not work, the app still stays running

3. Transcoding < 128kbps - In my case, BubbleSoft server is running on Linux and has all the codecs for transcoding. When connecting over the Internet, I can stream MP3 up to 128kbps, if I change the transcoding setting (over wifi/mobile/ethernet) to 64k or 32k, the player shows Vorbis, but does not play anything. This may be a codec issue at my end, but how do I fix it?

4. Transcoding 128k. In general it works, but is flakey. At times it will play one track and the second does not play. Sometimes two tracks are played, but third does not. I have to hit stop and play again, and it starts playing. I have tested it over Internet only, on a mobile network. I have not tested this on wifi at home (connecting via Buublesoft server, not UPNP). Any clues?

Sid
[Android Apps and Games] psychoace:
Hey, I'm running BubbleUPnP client server and Android app and have Plex as my media server. I'm trying to get Plex to run video at 480p when I'm connected to cell data but it keeps giving me native resolution to the video. My DLNA client preference looks like this "IP=10.0.0.20,DirectPlay=true,DirectStream=true,LocalResolution=720x480,RemoteResolution=720x480,OnlineResolution=720x480,LocalVideoQuality=74,RemoteVideoQuality=49,OnlineVideoQuality=49,SubtitleSize=100,AudioBoost=100,MusicBitrate=192;" Any reason why this wouldn't work?
[Android Apps and Games] danwooller:
A recent update seems to have changed the behaviour when switching renderers in the devices tab. Previously it would just select the new renderer, but now seems to drag whatever was paying on the old renderer onto the new one, meaning you have to remember to clear the playlist before switching. Can you change it back?
[Android Apps and Games] alexcbr:
Artist name, album art and photo size errors

Hello bubbleguuum,

Bubble upnp is a great app, but I have a few issues if you could please help.

I use mp3 and flac files for music and jpeg for photos stored on a western digital mybook live duo NAS setup as a dnla server over a wireless lan.

I use a Google nexus 7 for the bubbleupnp app.

1. On some music albums the artist is listed as 'default creator' rather than the correct artist. I have checked the file metadata and it is OK.

2. On some music albums the album art is incorrect or blank - sometimes several albums all have the same incorrect album art which is from a different album. Again the metadata of the files on the nas is OK.

3. Some photos only show up as very small images, like thumbnails, rather than the large and higher resolution image. I have viewed the images in other upnp apps and they work OK.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help - it is appreciated.

Alex
[Android Apps and Games] TehFonz:
I am looking for a simple UPNP Media Server, to serve out media.

I have XBMC installed on my HTPC but don't want to turn it on when ever I want to serve media from my MicroServer to my Android Stick. Is there a simple Media Server app I can install on the MicroServer (where my media is hosted) that has UPNP capability?
[Android Apps and Games] texneus:
Done!

Much appreciated! I had looked at Twonky before but dismissed it as it seemed like it was trying to move away from being a DLNA server. I will investigate further. Minimserver does indeed look excellent for music, I will be sure to give it a trial.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. Normally it should work but I haven't check for a long time. To what renderer are you playing ?

2. Only triggers when screen is off for the configured "Kill on inactivity" duration, using WiFi (as WiFi can be a large consumer of power, unlike mobile), not plugged to power, and app doing nothing (not controlling, not serving local media server content). Does it correspond to your usage ?

3. Vorbis is used for < 128Kbps because mp3 is awful at low bitrates. I don't remember the first version of Android supporting http streaming of Vorbis but on Android 4.0+ it should always work.

4. What Android version your device is ? If you can reproduce it, send me a log file (see first post of this topic for instructions).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Assuming you access your Plex server over the Internet through BubbleUPnP Server, did you set "Settings > Network And Settings > Mobile Transcoding (in the video section)" to 480p ?

Without this, no transcoding is performed. And make sure to setup Plex to not do transcoding.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPNP can do it. The local media server can be accessed from other browsing devices (some of the folders require the license). If you need to run it all the time make sure to disable Settings > Control > Kill on inactivity.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This did not change.

Can you send me a log file so I can see what happens ? (see first post of this topic for details).
[Android Apps and Games] TMan459:
Any progress on the 24bit playback issue? I still have the described issue with anything 24bit. Fixing that would really put this over the top!

Thanks for all you do!
[Android Apps and Games] danwooller:
Log sent.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No Your best bet is to use a media server that can resample to 16 bits. This is preferable anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] danwooller:
A quick note to update this issue. The developer received the logs and acknowledged the bug but has refused to fix the problem. Currently if I start the app while something is playing on one renderer, if the app starts up pointing at that renderer, it sees the content running and loads it into Now Playing. If that didn't happen to be the renderer I wanted to manage (perhaps the GF is watching Grey's Anatomy) switching to another renderer stops the playback on the first and I get shouted at. It doesn't matter if there was content in the playlist, just that something was already playing.

Does anyone else see this problem (I have two XBMC boxes) and can help with a resolution?
[Android Apps and Games] rathmannm:
Installed BubbleUPnP and bought it after 10 mins - absolutely brilliant. Does everything I want it to do and haven't come across any issues so far. I have a suggestion though - it would be nice to be able to give the renderers a friendly name.
[Android Apps and Games] TMan459:
I don't know of a such a server that fits those needs with my needs, but a BubbleUPnP Server option to downsample 24bit FLAC to 16bit FLAC would fill this void.

I have 4G in my area now and can stream 16bit FLAC, but 24bit FLAC doesn't have the bandwidth to stream stutter-free, which is why I asked.

FYI, I use Asset UPnP...

Would love to see a FLAC downsampling feature!
[Android Apps and Games] superdupersimme:
Hi,

I've been using BubbleUPnP to stream mediafiles from my computers to my androiddevice. This has worked until some update ago. When I try to play .mkv files I get the "no streaming URL available" errormessage. Other formats plays fine. I started laborating and checking the settings and suddenly those .mkv files are not even listed. My computers run win7 and I haven't used any other mediaserver than wmp12. This has been my setup all the time and it worked before. Can someone figure out what's broken :)

Best regards,

Superdupersimme
[Android Apps and Games] yeffiely:
smart sorting

Hi, I'd like to know if you could maybe add a way to merge same artist that sometime's written in lower case letters and/or upper case letters under the smart sort option. I'm using foobar as my library and it does actually smartsort my stuff on my pc. Thanks for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] zak1976:
Newbie with a question tha's probably been asked before!

Sorry, I have seached for this and I'm sure it's easy to solve (it may even be as simple as I haven't got a clue what I'm doing or what to expect from a NAS!)

Anyways, I've bought a Zyxel NSA310, mainly for recording images from a camera via ftp. This is all working okay.......

I can access my NAS externally via noip and port forwarding (as I have a dynamic IP) and can download files etc.

I can also stream movies when on the LAN, but I can't stream when I'm off the LAN. I get an error saying "the server could be joined but required additional information could no be retrieved"

Can anyone please help and put me out of my misery?

:o
[Android Apps and Games] defim:
BubbleUPNP does not find my library anymore :(

I've nothing changed, only updated the app via market. But which update the culprint is i can not say, because i've not used the upnp app some weeks.

Devices/libraries and libraries tabs are empty. In "now playing" and "playlist" is still 1 song i played last time - and it is possible to play it!?

My network: I have a minidlna server behind a igmpproxy. This combination wokrd a long time great.
[Android Apps and Games] IcolVern:
BubbleGuuum, your app rocks. It's very very useful around the house. I was glad to purchase it.

I am having one major issue, though. The Bubble UPnP Server program on Windows does not seem to be connectable from my Android device. Obviously, I want to be able to access the server on my own network through a remote WiFi network, so I can see my Foobar 2000 DLNA thing.

I forwarded both ports (58050 and 58051), inputted and re-inputted my hostname and password in the app, double checked all my firewall and port forwarding settings in both Windows and the Asus RT-N12B1 router I use. When I attempted several times to connect via HTTP or HTTPS, the connection timed out. For reference, I'm using my home IP address as a hostname.

In one instance it mentioned something relating to using HTTPS and NAT settings on my router, like I got the two port numbers backward or something(?); however my router does not have any options to change NAT settings, so I'm not sure what that was about.

In any case, the Windows server appears to simply not work for me. Would it be a problem that I am testing all this at home on one network? Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] deadhbeefh:
Hi Bubble, did you think more about a solution for this ? ;)

I just passed one week again trying to fix the problem on my side (trying another router, applying new TV firmware, ...), but no success, so I really would be happy if BubbleUPNP could just allow me to remember my TV forever, would be much more practical for me.

I thought again about the best possible way in the UI to offer something like that, so can I suggest the following ?

- rename the existing 'Hide' command (in the popup menu in device list) as 'Force hide' (or 'Always hide' / 'Hide forever', ...)

- create a corresponding 'Force show' ('Always show' / 'Show forever') command which will do the opposite: memorize this renderer IP address and control URL forever, and just restore it on start in the device list without any further "alive check". I think it should not be too difficult to implement, will not confuse users too much (how many are using this popup menu anyway ?), and would correspond to the already existing 'Hide' command. No need for new additional UI also, just an additional menu item.

What do you think about such an idea ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes, some routers do not allow NAT loopback: they will not connect if you try to access your public ip within your home network. Of course it would work if you connect not from your home network, for example using your phone mobile connection.

Does BubbleUPnP Server reports a successful Internet connection test in the status page ? That's the important thing so it can be joined from the outside.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Nothing changed in recent versions with discovery. People often equates discovery issues with upgrading to a new version of the app, but this is rarely the cause of the problem. Sometimes WiFi router that have been up for a long time do not handle multicast properly anymore. Same for media servers. So first, try rebooting yur WiFi router and the PC on which minidlna is running, and your phone.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It seems you are connecting to your NAS public directly instead of through BubbleUPNP Server. Install BubbleUPnP Server to access your NAS over the Internet.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Media Server bug. restart it and it should be fine.
[Android Apps and Games] andreaspe:
Every time i try to load a locally saved htm / html file from my sd card bubble upnp loads with the error : cannot handle mime / file type. In other words i can't just view the html in the browser since bubble tries to open up the file. When i uninstall bubble, then the htm file opens up correctly in the browser. What can i do to prevent such behavior from the app?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That's very weird.

What app are you using to open these html files ?
[Android Apps and Games] am2pgs:
Playlist not playing completely

Hi,

I am a noob, love this app, but I have a problem. I have searched this forum for a few days and also looked at the bubbleUPnp log files (see attaced), but I am non the wiser. Could somebody please shed some light on what I am doing wrong.

my setup is like this: a server pc (windows 7) running WMP and bubbleUPnP server (WMP is my proxy renderer configured through the bubbleUPnP server config). My PC is connected to airplay speakers through Airfoil. I have tried various music servers (WMP, Asset, Plex) and they all seem to work fine as streamers for bubbleUPnP.

I use an android device running bubbleUPnP, to create playlists and play them on my server PC through the aforementioned proxy (openhome) renderer. In devices I have selected the Openhome (windowsmediaplayer proxy) on my PC as the renderer. My music server is also on the PC.

The problem I have is that when I turn my android device off, the playlist quite often plays a few tracks and then stops. I though it wasn''t supposed to that.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] superdupersimme:
Thanks for the reply. Tried rebooting but then the strangest thing happened. Now when I start bubbleupnp om my android and select the correct device the .mkv files and its folders isnt even listed?! Something wrong in the wmp12? Is there any good free alternative to wmp?

Regards,
[Android Apps and Games] andreaspe:
the default jb browser and next browser. I uninstalled bubble and they read the file perfectly fine.