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[Android Apps and Games] am2pgs:
I have checked and I don't think my router supports NAT loopback. I think it would have been nice if BubbleUPnP tried to find the correct tracks on the current server based on metadata stored on the playlist. I know there is an option to select a track on the playlist and find it in on the server, but I wish it did that automatically.

Thanks anyway, at least nice to know I am not doing something silly.
[Android Apps and Games] juanmasg:
it's not only useful, it is a basic feature for tablet owners ;). Personally, I will buy the app if it supports lastfm scrobbling and landscape mode.
[Android Apps and Games] horatio1111:
I am having an issue playing back FLAC files with album art. I am using the Local Renderer on a Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate running Android 2.2. The files are on my network storage server running Debian Squeeze with minidlna as the server software.

The BubbleUPnP player displays the art, correctly identifies the file as FLAC with bitrate and track length, but does not play the file. It just sits there at 0:00 with the play/pause icon displaying the pause icon. This only happens with FLAC files with cover art. FLAC files without cover art play beautifully.

It may have something to do with cover art embedded in the tag.

Thanks, great app!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Landscape mode will be in the next beta

Thanks for reporting, I'll look into it.
[Android Apps and Games] shoah:
When do you think will arrive the next beta?

And when it becomes a paid app, how much will it cost? I would pay for it...

The last thing. Is it possible to show the photographs without download them? Like the music or the videos...

Thanks and congratulations for a great job :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] Matt2012:
iPad?

Will this work with any iPad apps so I can stream a video from my phone to my ipad?
[Android Apps and Games] stampgevaar:
Nice work bubbleguuum. I can vaguely remember your foo_discogs plugin which was great also :)

It tried bubbleupnp and am missing something to sort the tracks by filename/cd/tracknumber instead of title?

Or does this have to do with my upnp server?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Price is still undecided. Maybe a photo player will make it in the future but not a priority.

It's related to the upnp server. The app only displays items in the order the server returns them. If you browse your server by filesystem structure, you'll probably have the files listed in whatever is the default order of the remote filesystem, which most of the time will be alphabetically.

Any way, 0.9.9.5 is available on the Market with landscape support and fixes:

new: landscape mode

Library: browse compatibility fixes with some Media Servers

Library: cleaned up context menu for video items. Tapping a video item now always plays it

attempt at improving stability on Android 3.0.1+

various fixes and enhancements
[Android Apps and Games] debay:
Sadly its still not working on WD TV Live!

The progress bar works most of the time, but playing next track doesnt work at all.

I will send you a log to your mail address...

Best regards

debay
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Try enabling the "Alternate track advance" method in Settings>Advanced Settings. It may now work now since it needs working playing track elapsed time.

Some WDTV Live models have a huge bug in the renderer: they don't advertise the Control Point of their "playing" state, so the app cannot know it is playing something.

That, and their Media Server loves to send invalid XML (which I workarounded).
[Android Apps and Games] debay:
sorry, didnt mentioned that i already tried that - still not working.

i tested so much apps on android and iOS and most of them can play the next track without problems - so i think that this can be fixed...

EDIT: for example it works with "UPnPlay"
[Android Apps and Games] AWRog:
nice player, has real potential, I use it for music playback from my upnp nas server, works great.

Some observations: jpg files on my upnp device are displayed as music files (music notes icon)

Perhaps some (more) buffering, playback gets garbled (stutter) when I'm even not that far away from my wifi router.

I hope you keep developing!
[Android Apps and Games] NautilusIII:
Hey, I am observing the same issue.

I am using the app on an Acer Iconia A500 tablet; my UPNP device is an Thecus N5200 Pro...

My jpgs all appear as music files and I do not see any chance to play them.

Any idea?
[Android Apps and Games] Phoenix09:
Can it be updated to accept the audio/mp4 mimetype? minidlna uses it for m4a. upnplay accepts it, but this has a much better interface. And any chance of a sleep timer (so it stops playing or exits once the time is up)?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The app only handle audio and video but doesn't prevent browsing images. No plan to add

support for images.

audio/m4a is already recognized. Is it not played by the local renderer, or some other external renderer ? What happens when you try to play it ?

I may add a sleep timer feature.
[Android Apps and Games] Phoenix09:
It uses audio/mp4, not m4a. Local renderer. "not playable: No compatible audio codec found." They're all AAC and upnplay is fine with them.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ok, fixed in the next version which I'll release soon. Thanks for reporting.
[Android Apps and Games] debay:
WDTVlive still not working correctly - still waiting for the answer on my mail (logfiles was included)!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
WDTV Live firmware is buggy when pushing its status updates. It could be fixed using the polling method (which is CPU hungry and inefficient, probably what other apps use) but I'm not doing that just to support 1 device.

I'm really fed up workarounding devices bugs. I had to do plenty of workarounds to support buggy hardware already. I'll submit the bug to WD so they have a chance to fix it (if they care enough) in future updates.
[Android Apps and Games] ronenpg:
Just want to say thanks

Works AMAZING with Popcorn C-200 and Asus TF !!! thank you for great stream application :) keep the good work ;)

One request, if you can please add subtitle support (it will be great) when playing stream video.
[Android Apps and Games] Pochemuchka1977:
I am trying to listen to music track from my NAS (Bufallo LS-VL) to LG SmartTV and getting error "Transition not available - code 701". Direct playing from NAS to TV is working just fine.

Please advice what should I do to solve this issue

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The log shows that there is a reverse DNS timeout of 10s to your TV (192.168.10.195). This happens with some Android / WiFI router combos and the app has little control over that. It succeed if you try it just a bit later because failed DNS timeout queries are cached for 10s (and thus you don't get the timeout).

Can you try doing the same actions but after rebooting your WiFi Router and your TV ? Does it work as expected then ?

Alternatively you may want to upgrade your router firmware to the latest version and upgrade to Android 2.3.x (if you are using an earlier version).

If you have a spare router you can also try it in replacement of the current one.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Please try BubbleUPnP 1.2.0 beta (first post of this topic for download link).

If it still doesn't work, you can send me a log (as explained in the first post of this topic).

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] jdthood:
Results of some testing:

* The library list does indeed load faster now: it's about as fast as UPnPlay.

* Track time slider works properly, at least with a Samsung UE32D6500 television.

* With the Philips NP3900 the volume slider cannot be used to increase the volume. When BubbleUPnP connects and a track is played the player starts playing at its previously selected volume. If the player has just been booted then BubbleUPnP displays the volume as zero. Otherwise the volume is correctly displayed. The slider can be moved and "Volume NN" is displayed, but it this no effect if the slider is moved to the right. The slider jumps back to the starting position. Moving the slider does have an effect if the slider is moved to the left: the volume is decreased. If the −/+ volume control buttons on the phone (Samsung Galaxy S I9000) are used then the volume can be controlled either down or up.

* As with all other UPnP control point apps other than Philips MyRemote, use of BubbleUPnP causes the NP3900 to be unable to return to Internet Radio (until the NP3900 is rebooted). This is, of course, most probably a bug in the NP3900.
[Android Apps and Games] jdthood:
Here's the log file. I started the app, selected the TV as the renderer and then tried to play the .m4a track. Result was "Unsupported format" message on the TV.
[Android Apps and Games] abgestumpft:
I have the same issue. This is definitely a bug of the Philips NP3900. I've tested several devices and apps all leading to the same result.

Currently I have a call open at Philips and they were not able to reproduce it. Conclusion was something is broken in my device (though my parents also own one with same behavior)

Now when reading your post I think they may have only tested the "Philips My Remote" software...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It is actually trying to play the m4a as a WAV (your Media Server declare a WAV streaming URL for this item) which cannot work as your TV only supports LPCM and MP3.

Can you try again after enabling "Mime-type check" found in the advanced option (which from the log I see is disabled. This option disabled will push whatever the first streaming URL is for this track, even if not compatible). It will allow to find a possible alternate streaming URL compatible with your TV and tell it to play that instead. If it doesn't work eventually repost a log so I can tell you for sure why it will not play.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
What you describe is intended to prevent accidental massive increase of volume,

possibly destroying your ears and speakers with some hardware. To understand that, keep in mind volume control can potentially control an UPnP renderer which is also a regular amplifier and for which you never ever want to put the volume to certain level accidently.

To prevent this you cannot click the volume slider anywhere up and have volume change applied (however, it works for lowering volume as it is safe). To increase the volume with the slider you must slide the thumb continuously to the new position and volume change is applied when releasing the thumb.
[Android Apps and Games] deloosem:
It stil does not work with the beta... I have send you the log

It used to work with an older version I don't get it.
[Android Apps and Games] elwood1:
Hello bubbleguuum,

i have installed bubbleUPNP on my xperia x8 with android 2.1.

First i installed an old Version (1.0 beta) on my handy. It finds automatically my Twonky Media Server (Library) and my WDTV Live (Renderer).

After this i installed the new Version 1.1.4 and also i have bought the license.

Now my problems:

- after License installation my BubbleUPNP App shows under help: No license found

- my Twonky Media Server is not shown under Library

- my WDTV Live Renderer is not shown under Renderer

I don't understand this, because the old Version have done this. But in this case, i can't see my folder on NAS (Incl. twonky Media Server) but i could search for MP3 Files.

How can i attache my logfile?

Can you help me?

kind regards
[Android Apps and Games] vHi:
Heyho!

Everytime i try to connect to the bubble UPnP Server an unexcpected error occurs. I just try to connect to the server and when it loads the twonky library it crashes (or it does not display it). Error log in attachment.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There is nothing I can do for this crash as it happens in the Java Virtual Machine used on your NAS (a build of OpenJDK). See if there is a newer version available, or submit a bug on http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla with the crash trace and steps to reproduce.
[Android Apps and Games] vHi:
Worker for me!! Thank you! Just another question. Do you know another video player than vplayer which is free to use? (no trial).

EDIT: And how do I run the server the server as daemon?
[Android Apps and Games] flash5000:
Videoplayer: try MXPlayer, available in the market...

In order to have the server running in the background, the only way that was successful for me was to create an autostart entry.

Depending on your NAS model, there are instructions:

Synology: see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20007485

QNAP: see official server wiki (first post)

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] vassie79:
I am loving BubbleUPnP so far, however I have a couple of questions

Can the icon in the top left be updated for a more Gingerbread look on phones running Gingerbread?

Also, can we lose the BubbleUPnP Licence launcher icon?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] jdthood:
I understand and agree with your reasoning, but as things stand the UI is confusing and gives the impression that something is malfunctioning. What I would suggest is a consistent behavior: pressing anywhere to the right of the slider causes the volume to increase by N steps; pressing anywhere to the left of the slider causes the volume to decrease by N steps.
[Android Apps and Games] jdthood:
I have just done as you asked. When I tried to play a track a message appeared on the phone:

Track 'foo.m4a' is not playable: no compatible decoder found (try disabling the 'mime-type check' advanced setting)

Attached is the log.

Cheers,

--

Thomas

P.S. This is about the problem that BubbleUPnP can't play a .m4a file from my Synology NAS to my Samsung UE32D6530 DLNA-capable television, but other control points, including UPnPlay, can play .m4a files. The TV supports MP3 and LPCM. The NAS supports AAC, AIFF, LPCM, M4A, MP3, Vorbis, Wav, application/vnd.rn-realmedia, application/vnd.rn-realmedia-vbr. When playing a .m4a file to the TV using UPnPlay the latter reports "x-wav" as the type.
[Android Apps and Games] shaidey:
BubbleUPnP 1.2.0 - Library no longer detected.

Hi,

I just updated to 1.2.0 and suddenly my media library is no longer detected. I'm using serviio as server and had no problems with the previous version. Is anyone experiencing similar issues?

Greets

EDIT:

I looked at the logs and found an:

"Device descriptor retrieval failed, no response: <media-server-url>"

I checked the URL with my browser and got a valid response. Since everything worked with the previous version and I did not change anything other than BubbleUPnP I assume this is a bug.
[Android Apps and Games] flash5000:
Everything working fine here, but not using Serviio though...

@ Bubbleguuum:

How about integrating the step-by-step guide for installing the Server on a Synology NAS in your server website? ;):D
[Android Apps and Games] elwood1:
hello,

after update to 1.2.0 everythings looks good. Library, renderer and all folders would be found. Many thx!!

Only my license has the same problem: no license found.

Do you have any idea!

kind regards
[Android Apps and Games] abgestumpft:
I have serviio installed on my QNAP NAS and that one is still detected after 1.2.0. update.

Maybe it helps to do a restart of serviio and your phone.
[Android Apps and Games] bsmith1051:
Do we know which brand/model of receiver work correctly as DLNA renderers? I would like to buy a new receiver that can be set to auto-wake when I 'send' to it from BubbleUPnP, as well as be able to control the volume from my tablet. Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] scp93ch:
Offline playing on Nexus 10

Hi,

I think I've found a bug - I hope this is a sensible place to report it.

On my Nexus 10 device, with BubbleUPnP 1.7.2.1 and Android 4.3 if I choose the local renderer and the local media server and turn the WiFi off then I cannot play any of the locally stored tracks. With WiFi on, it works fine.

If I try the same thing on my SGS2 with Android 4.2.2 (Cyanogenmod 10.1 nightly) then it is fine: that is my phone can render locally stored files in Airplane mode.

I realise that I can use other music players to play local music but I'd like to use BubbleUPnP partly so that I *might* then be able to control it remotely from my phone with the Nexus 10 connected to the SGS2's WiFi hot-spot, but I'm not sure if that part will work...

Let me know if there's any more info I can provide or tests to do.

Thanks,

Stephen.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Hi Stephen,

Did a quick test and had no problem playing a local media server track (not a cloud track of course) to the local renderer with no network at all (Nexus 4, Android 4.3).

Please send me a log file, playing the track that does not play. See first post of this topic for logging instructions.
[Android Apps and Games] krutschcom:
AFIK, they all do this now. I have both a Denon and a Pioneer that work as you describe, above.

The biggest problem with the AVRs is support for gapless playback and support for pause/resume with FLAC. Neither my Pioneer nor my Denon can do any of the above when used as a DLNA renderer (regardless of which control point used). The Denon will support gapless and pause/resume when I use the AVR as a control point (i.e. use their crappy on-screen UI) and the Pioneer will support pause/resume, in a similar manner (but no gapless playback).
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
This is indeed a good question and i wish there was a reliable database which reviews the UPnP/DLNA capabilities of network player devices in detail. From my experience, all of them have their pros and cons.

I have a Denon DNP F-109 and it can be set to auto-wake and of course the volume is controlable from a control point like BubbleUPnP. Gapless Playback works in combination with BubbleUPnP as long as eventing is disabled in BubbleUPnP. It is also possible to pause/resume FLAC files as long as the media server provides some kind of mysterious DLNA pause-flag (referring to the Denon support). It is for example possible with the Synology Media Server but not with Twonky.
[Android Apps and Games] Stereolab:
Local Media Server behavior

Since last update (1.7.2.2) I can no longer disable Local Media Server on "Settings / Local Media Server" options. From now on, Local Media Server is always "running" and present on my device list. Would you please consider reverting to previous behavior?

==========

BubbleUPnP UPnP/DLNA - 1.7.2.2 (Licensed)

Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830B/Android Version: 3.2.4

Library: MinimServer 0.72

Renderer: foobar2000 v1.2.9/foo_upnp 0.99.46

==========
[Android Apps and Games] pin0cci0:
Okay, thank you for your support. You can send me a PM or I'll give you my Email or G+ Name via PM for the test versions. Just text me. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Bert003:
Not so smooth scrolling through large lists

First let me say I am extremely happy with this app with all the features and it's beautiful and functional interface.

I use JRiver Mediacenter as UPnP server and most things work fine.

The only thing I am a bit less happy is that the Library scroll/browse experience is not so smooth.

I used to have the iPeng app on an iPod with Squeezeboxserver an players. The whole database info was, if I remember well, stored within iPeng on the iPod. This was causing an absolute smooth scrolling experience without any hick-ups. This was on a 2nd gen iPod touch 6 years ago.

Nowadays I use a Samsung S3 phone and it just doesn't scroll smooth with displayed thumbnails. It looks like each time I enter the Artist or Album list BubbleUPnP has to get it from the server and rebuild the list. While rebuilding the list scrolling is full of jumps and hick-ups. I tried to turn off 'Cache thumbnails' option, didn't help. Not sure when 'Cache thumbnails' is ON it stores thumbnails to external SDcard, or into internal memory. There is nothing to choose which SDcard. Not sure what Bubble means with SDcard. In Android the internal memory is also named as SDcard. Anyway scrolling just isn't smooth on my system.

When the waiting/working/updating round symbol on the upper right side of the display disappears scrolling goes better, but almost each time I come back in the same Artist list I see the waiting symbol again.

With the thumbnails fully disabled scrolling goes smooth, but only after the waiting symbol is gone. But while browsing Artists I can live without the cover displayed, but when I choose for an Artist and come in the submenu of the Artist with the albums displayed, I miss the covers.

My question is are there other tweaks which makes browsing faster? Isn't it possible to cache the whole Library metadata including all thumbnails locally to internal memory and browse through that copy? Ofcoarse in the background there should be a monitor which keep track of changes. But for the user it could mean an always smooth navigating experience. Most libraries don't change that often I think, so why refresh it each time I choose i.e. the Artist menu?

Apart from that I am really happy with this program. JRiver's app called Gizmo scrolls smoother but this is an awful ugly app without any options.
[Android Apps and Games] :
OpenHome renderer discovery

Hi,

I'm just getting started with BubbleUPnPServer and BubbleUPnP for Android and still have some problems with the discovery of OpenHome renderers.

- BubbleUPnPServer is running on Gentoo Linux, connected via Ethernet to my home network, no firewall

- On the same Gentoo, Mediatomb is running as UPnP server

- My TV (Samsung) is connected via Ethernet to my home network

- My internet radio (Medion) is connected via wifi to my home network

- My Galaxy S2 is running the BubbleUPnP App and connected via wifi to my home network

- The BubbleUPnPServer discovers Mediatomb, the TV, and the internet radio (exposed via the web interface)

- I configured the BubbleUPnPServer not to handle Mediatomb, but to create OpenHome renderers for the TV and the internet radio

- The BubbleUPnP App discovers Mediatomb, the original TV and internet radio renderers, but *usually* it doesn't discover the OpenHome renderers (I managed it a couple of times, but don't know how to reproduce) even though in the app settings the network is listed as "(connected)"

- Switching from http to https or vice versa doesn't help

- I don't see any messages on the BubbleUPnPServer command line / logfile when the App starts.

- If I tell BubbleUPnPServer to handle MediaTomb, it is discovered reliably as media render by the BubbleUPnP app

- The few times, the OpenHome renderers were discovered, they worked well.

Do you have any clue what could be wrong?

Also I'm still looking for a desktop (linux) control point for OpenHome renderers. Running foobar on wine is not what I'd like to do.

Best regards,

Stephan
[Android Apps and Games] pdf1964:
I am seeing the same behavior. I have found no way to disable or hide the local media server since the last update
[Android Apps and Games] Andre Gosselin:
Same for me on Nexus 7 Android 4.3.
[Android Apps and Games] JamBlob:
Exif rotation

This is indeed fixed in the latest release, thanks.

However, now it seems that it isn't honouring the exif rotation setting so portrait pictures appear sideways. This did work until a couple of releases back.

Cheers,

Jim
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
Issue: "Scanning for devices" even when networks are off

Hi,

can you please prevent the app from doing "Scanning for devices" when networks are off? I think you fixed it long time ago, but the latest version of the app still does this. It's very annoying, when having all networks off and just want to listen to some music as a simple music player, to wait for 10-20 secconds while the app is "Scanning for devices" without any reason. Take a look at screenshot, I even had the phone in airplane mode, and only kept bluetooth on, and still when I launched the app, it's wasting time to scan for devices.

Can you please fix this, or give us option in settings to NEVER scan for devices?

I even have "Disable discovery" checked, but it doesn't help with this long standing problem.