yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP is available in the Google Play store:

1.6.0

4x1 and 4x2 widgets resizable horizontally on ICS+

rich notification on Jelly Bean with volume control

gapless playback (beta) support for the local renderer. Requires Android Jelly Bean. Must be explicitely enabled in Settings > Local Renderer. Changing this setting requires an app restart. The local renderer will play gaplessly if controlled by a gapless aware controller: BubbleUPnP 1.6.0+, JRMC, foobar2000 (foo_upnp 0.99.41).

support for controlling gapless renderers (all Android versions). tested renderers: local renderer (locally or remotely controlled), JRiver Media Center, foobar2000 (foo_upnp 0.99.41). Can be turned off in Settings > UPnP Tweaks > Enable gapless control

OpenHome local renderer (beta). Allow to control the local renderer remotely without requiring the Control Point to remain running for track advance (the playback queue is stored on the renderer side). Must be enabled in Settings > Local Renderer > OpenHome renderer. Appears on the network with the same name than the local renderer, with (OpenHome) appended

video subtitles support for local and external video renderers. For Android playback with subtitles, MX Player is required for either local or remote playback. For important information on this topic, refer to Settings > About/Help > Tips > Video and subtitles

support for third party equalizer / DSP apps applied to local renderer music playback (Now Playing > Menu > Equalizer)

slideshow to external renderer through the fullscreen image viewer, now able to control external renderers and providing a better UI for this purpose

added ability to exclude folders when the Local Media Server is browsed remotely (Settings > Local Media Server > Content > Exclude remote folders)

reorganized Settings screens

Now Playing screen uses cached covers on mobile connection

improved D-PAD navigation (GoogleTV)

improved accessibility

attempt at a workaround for error 501 on some Sony renderers

fixed app sometimes exiting after inactivity delay while local media server is busy streaming files

fixed Local Media Server and Renderer possibly disappearing after 30 mins in some external Control Points

fixed thumbnails sometimes not displaying (most likely happened on fast devices like the Nexus 7)

fixed searching local media server for videos not working

fixed local renderer and local media server not being disannounced on the LAN on Android shutdown or reboot

fixed layouting bugs

fixed rare ANRs and crashes

many other fixes and UI tweaks
[Android Apps and Games] pmdex:
Awesome! Thank you so much!
[Android Apps and Games] eozen81:
Hello, I am a new user of "BubbleUPnP" and firstly I want to thank you all the ones who have contributed effort for this app.

May I kindly ask how can I see my shared folders in Win 7? I can access my PC in the app but it odes not show my library which reads from Documentaries folder.... ?

PS: As you can see below attached I can easily stream my shared folders via ES File Explorer but once I select my PC in BubbleUPnP I can not see those folders?

Second issue, I have also intentionally put an "avi file with srt" into my Library to see If BubbleUPnP will be able to stream it, it could but MX Player or default video player could not show subtitles.
[Android Apps and Games] mata77:
great app

any question: it's possible to create any version of BubbleUPnP Server to apk? i have box tv android always online and i could install service here
[Android Apps and Games] krutschcom:
Gapless FLAC playback works great!

FYI, I tested the BETA gapless playback yesterday on both my Nexus 7 tablet and my Nexus S 4G (w/ Voodoo Sound) streaming FLAC from a WD MyBook Live w/ Twonky 7.0.9-special. Works perfectly across a variety of albums - no ticks / pops / pauses / whatever. Seamless playback.

Nice work, BubbleUPnP developers and testers!
[Android Apps and Games] jjahifi:
A bug or a cange?

Playlists stopped working after the latest update.

I have purchased the licence to BubbleUPnP for Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet running Android. The BubbleUPnP worked great until the latest update. Now it creates the playlist fine, but it stops after playing a file to to remote rendered. The next song from the playlist will not be played without any action from me.

If I press the pause/play functionality it goes to the next song, but not without that.

The files are FLAC-files sitting on a NAS.

Is there a workaround or is this a bug?

For me the older version worked fine...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Please record and send me a log file as explained in first post of this topic
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That's not on the todo list. It wouldn't be trivial to port to Android and transcoding would not work.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Folders shared by SMB are not the same than with UPnP which depends on how WMP is configured.

On MX Player player is supported to show subtitles, provided BUbbleUpnP is given subtitles by the Media Server.

WMP doesn't send subtitle that BubbleUPnP could use (assuming you use WMP).

Look in Settings > About / Help > Tips > Video and subtitles for a workaround that consists in copying your SRT in a particular directory of the SD Card with a specific naming scheme so BubbleUPnP can associate them to a video.
[Android Apps and Games] devandavis:
Were there any settings you had to change in the foobar upnp installation? I can play flac files gaplessly using the bubbleupnp local renderer, and the foobar installation where my music files are will directly play gaplessly, but when using bubbleupnp as the controller and foobar upnp as the renderer, i still get the gaps. Asset UPNP as the server, if that matters.

thanks-
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It requires foo_upnp 0.99.41 that is not yet released.
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
BubbleUPnP would not allow me to stop/play a track. Something about waiting for the action to finish. At any rate, I've attached the log file.
[Android Apps and Games] bledcarrot:
This is a fantastic app. I've been fiddling around with all kinds of different apps and tearing my hair out over inconsistencies. This works great.

I'm looking at upgrading to the pro version, but first wanted to ask if anyone knows of a way to queue up Youtube videos in the playlist? I'm using SemperVidlink and I think it's sharing through this first then through BubbleUpNp, which is working fine, I'd just like to ideally be able to queue Youtube videos. That would be the clincher for me. Anyone been able to do this yet?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for the report.

It is the Android MediaPlayer locking up which is super unusual and should be rare, and I could not reproduce it trying to play/stop tracks several times. Let me know if that happens often. Maybe it happens only with connectivity issues. I've noticed than in most of your logs, connection seem to switch WiFi<->mobile all th time.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There's no way to enqueue youtube videos from semperVidLinks. It could be done with a popup asking if you want to play or enqueue a video, although I can see that being annoying. And it is not guaranteed that videos URLs extracted by semperVidLinks do not expire quickly.
[Android Apps and Games] bigsms21:
Youtube Video:video on Tab but sound to renderer!?

Hi,

I have an Galaxy Tab and would like to play a youtube Video showing the video on my Tab but transmitting the sound via my Noxon 2 Radio renderer to my speakers.

Can BubbleUPNP do that?

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] Sevik:
Problem with Xiialive

Hi

I have a little problem concerning BubbleUPnP and XiiaLive. The main part works fine, but when I add an URL in Xiia (stream.srg-ssr.ch/drs2/mp3_128.m3u) it does not work with BubbleUPnP, although it works with Xiia on the phone.

It works also when I add the URL directly in BubbleUPnP. Main pont is that I like to have all the radio stations on Xiia and not distributed over different apps.

Do I make something wrong or has BubbleUPnP a problem receiving m3u or pls files?

Another (less important) issue I have is that BubbleUPnP doesn't show the title of the song a (radio) stream is sending. Is this normal? If yes, it would be a nice feature, but as stated, not a very important one.

Thanks for your time, I like the app much!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Can you precise what does not work ? I could add this URL in XiiaLive (in the favorites screen) and have it sent to renderer with BubbleUPnP without issue.

Yes it is normal. Dynamic track titles are embedded in the audio stream.

When the renderer supports shoutcast streaming it does the streaming directly.

Otherwise BubbleUPnP is proxying the shoutcast stream as a regular audio stream to the renderer, but it doesn't extract dynamic metadata.

It can certainly be done (in proxy mode) but it is not very high priority
[Android Apps and Games] ndcpower:
Hello,

Is it possible to preserve the complete path for downloaded files?

That would make it easier to browse by folder afterwards.

Thank you,

Lars,
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This is not possible has there is no concept of complete file path in UPnP: BubbleUPnP has no idea what is the full file path where an item is stored on your Media Server.
[Android Apps and Games] ndcpower:
I understand that. But i meant the path after browsing the library and not the real path on the server. Most of the time I'm using folder navigation. So in BubbleUpnp it looks like: Folder/Rock/Yes/Fragile

That's what i would like to get after downloading instead of: Folder/Fragile

Thank you,

Lars
[Android Apps and Games] electronixtar:
Hi,

I installed BubbleUPnP, so far it can:

* browse Win7 Windows Media Player library and play them

* browse other android DLNA server library

* remote control Win7 WIndows Media Player

But it can NOT:

* receive pushed Win7 Explorer pictures, videos and play them

* show up as a device when browsing "WLAN Direct" on Galaxy S III

I am trying to figure out what my problem is, so can you provide a basic log system somewhere on the app UI?

Thanks a LOT! :laugh::laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] tboooe:
Bubbleupnp + XBMC = great but SLOW???

I just installed Bubbleupnp on my RAZR accessing my XBMC server. Setup was a breeze and so far things are working fine. My one complaint is speed. I have a very large music library (30K+ songs, 3K artists). Each time I start Bubbleupnp it takes a while before I can access my library. Even accessing my 300 movie library takes a while. This is over my local wifi network. I can only imagine how slow things will be when I try this over the mobile network. I have been using Subsonic for some time now and it is MUCH faster, practically instantaneous. BTW, both my XBMC and Subsonic servers are on the same PC.

Anyway, any advice on how to speed things up?

EDIT: tried Twonky and it's a little faster than XBMC but nowhere as fast as Subsonic.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ok, in consideration for the next version.

I will not be available to answer messages until at least Sunday.
[Android Apps and Games] christihan:
Bubble UPnP looses Panasonic renderer

Hi,

after updating Bubble UPnP to Vers. 1.6.1 AND my Panasonic DMP-BDT220 to Firmware Vers. 1.4.9,

the DMP-BDT220 is no longer listed in the Bubble UPnP 'Select renderer' list.

The DMP-BDT220 works fine in my Home Network as a UPnP renderer via Ethernet LAN with my Synology DiscStation Server in

LOCAL Control, but not with Bubble Remote Control Point on my Galaxy S plus.

Any idea..?

Thanx for help

christihan
[Android Apps and Games] tboooe:
Hi there...just curious if browsing through XBMC was slow for you? Even on my local network it takes over 10 secs to access my music and video libraries.
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipJ:
nope, it's instant.

I'm running xbmcbuntu 11.0 on an Atom D525 based board (ASUS AT5IONT-I), connected to my network using the on-board gigabit LAN interface.

The BubbleUPnP client is running on my Nexus 7, connected to my network over a 150mbit wireless N access point.
[Android Apps and Games] tboooe:
Maybe thats my problem. I have XBMC running on a Windows 7 on a couple of Atom based HTPCs. Even on my powerhouse desktop machine its slow. I guess I need to look into Ubuntu. I have my BubbleUPnP client on just a wireless G network as I save my N network for wireless streaming from my NAS to my remote HTPCs.
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipJ:
you mean your data gets transferred over wireless N from your NAS to a XBMC HTPC, and then from this HTPC to a device connected to your network over wireless G ?

That won't perform well no matter which OS you use for XBMC.
[Android Apps and Games] tboooe:
Sorry for not explaining. I do have some HTPCs that are wireless but the one that I am accessing the BubbleUPnP is wired directly to my router and my NAS. I wonder if the issue is that I am using MYSQL to share the video and music database from my NAS to all the XBMC machines. Do you have local database or mysql option?
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipJ:
I have a disk with media files attached directly to the xbmc HTPC. I'm about to move the OS along with data to a hybrid 2.5" 750GB drive (with 8GB SSD cache for the OS).
[Android Apps and Games] xdagt:
Hi,

Thanks for BubbleUPnP...it's the best music player I've found that suits my needs. :good:

I have a couple of feature requests, and they have to do with local playback (I only ever use local playback -- all my music is on my phone):

1. When you first go into the library, it gives you the options of Music, Video, Images and File System. Can an option be made to always default into one of them? (99.9% of the time I use File System)

2. In File System, can an option be added to specify a base directory. For example, all my music is in the "Music" folder but using File System I have to scroll through all the folders in my phone's root directory to find it. In this instance, Bookmarking the folder won't do any good because I want to use it in combintation with the first request to save lots of scrolling and tapping.

thanks!! :)
[Android Apps and Games] alexgogan:
Hi apologies

Been crazy busy these last few days, but using yours and wanted to see if this would work but no.

Other the next few weeks will build a media server from bits lying around and hopefully will handle it better. I actually think it's the sea gate crap I have, even though the media are in the public folder just noticed when connecting windows 8 laptop could only see the same three folders?

So few tb's missing.
[Android Apps and Games] MOST2K2:
sounds nice, i will try it.
[Android Apps and Games] Sevik:
Thanks for your quick support:

Unfortunately, my problem remains: When add an m3u stream to my favorites it play well on the phone, but when I first start BubbleUPnP it doesn't stream it to my renderer.

Other shoutcasts via Xiia work perfectly.

Maybe a better description of what I've done and notice:

When I want to play a shoutcast radio open BubbleUPnP, then Xiia, go to my favorites, pick a radio. Then a toast comes up saying, BubbleUPnP is playing the statiion which it also does.

When I pick a self created favorit (with the stream I wrote before) the same "BubblUpnp is playing..." is popping up, but the stream doesn't start. When I change to BubbleUpnp I noticed that the seconds are not counted (but they does with other radios). So no error message, just doesn't play it.

When I add the stream in BubbleUpnp manually several items are listed in the playlist which all can play the station.

Maybe my renderer (Fritz Repeater n/g has a problem?

Thanks for your help!

My old post:
[Android Apps and Games] tzahradnik:
Help needed with caching

Hello Bubbleupnp,

I have purchased your product and set it up on my phone in conjuction with my NAS andmedia player (attached to my TV and stereo).

I am using it mostly to play my music collection. It is stored over at my NAS (WD mybookdue), it is then streamed to my media player (Amlogic unit) and controlled via my phone. Overall I very happy with the setup and it works nicely. However I have one point which annoys me a bit.

On my phone, when I browse my library (both locally on the phone and on my NAS collection), the album folders do not seem to get refreshed. When I modify my folders (add, delete), I still see the older album folders. Even when I delete completely a folder with music files, I still see him in a library. I guess the software is caching it somehow. Can you please help how to fix this? Also, some of the album art is not displayed event hough in my other player Zune on my PC, it displays correctly everything, I fixed all th ID3 tags.

Thank you vey much for your help

Tomas
[Android Apps and Games] pvdeejay:
Thx. I have just tested keyboard navigation with external keyboard and it is definatelly useable. By default I am using touch screen so more keyboard related comments may come later if I ever notice some little quirks.

Thanks for taking accessibility related improvements seriously, keyboard navigation is also important for improved accessibility.

As for the stuff I have requested and you have kindly implemented:

- now playing screen is now fully accessible and those controls I was reffering to as checkboxes are now conweyed as accuratelly labelled buttons. Thanks.

The images in the library view are not reported at all using talkback screen reader, this is something I have requested and like verry much.

The images in the devices tab are read aloud while using talkback. This is what I have requested as well. Content description of these reads as "library device icon" and "renderer device icon" respectivelly. I guess these strings are never displayed on the screen so other than hearing it aloud while using talkback or reading it in braille while using braille back they will not be noticed. If I am correct with this then can I please request changing the wording so they will just say Library and Renderer respectivelly? While giving a label or a content description to any control I think it is not necessary to say what you are labeling because standard android views usually have a role property which is read after the name. So the fact this is an image is already provided to the user of these assistive technologies. And taking out the word "device" from these content description just makes it brief. Since you are in a list of devices you are expecting to browse the devices anyway.

Please dont take this as a criticism I understand this is just a minor issue. I am just trying to politelly explain some accessibility related stuff so you can get some real user feetback on this rather than just relying on documentation which is often verry minimalistic or incomplete when it comes to these things.

Thanks once more for the great app and for the great support.

EDIT:

I've tried to check all the options referred to in these changes but my flacs and mp3s with subsong indexes are still transcoded on the server side (FB2K). It is fine as you have already explained that. However It does not play gaplessly. I am using bubbleupnp on android and playing on the same bubbleupnp on android. Is this supposed to work? Do I need to wait for foo_upnp update or is there a chance I do have missconfigured something?

Greetings

Peter
[Android Apps and Games] freeac:
Issues with the OS update

Hi,

First of all, let me tell you that I Love Bubble UPNP. It was working well and great on the CM9.1 and with XBMC on my Windows 7 PC. It has been streaming all AVI and MP4 files without any issue or buffer or lag on to my SONY LED.

Fortunately/unfortunately, I have updated my OS on S3 and my PC at the same time to 4.1.1 and Windows 8 respectively. And now, bubble app does recognize xbmc as the source and my Sony as the renderer, but fails to play each and every file that it used to play without issue earlier. :(:(:(

As I have done the update both on the PC and the phone at the same time, I am having difficulty to find out the cause, may be you can give some light on it.

Please help!

Nevermind, problem is with me :P... Forgot I detached the HDD that has the streaming content :)

So back to loving the app again...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
What I can do is 2.

When an album header is displayed (whether in the Playlist tab if in Album mode, or in Library when browsing an album folder), the track artist column will be hidden, leaving more room for the title (nearly full screen width).

Still, tagging classical music with super long titles is not a good idea, as it will almost always do not play nice on small screens in most apps (in particlar, phones).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No workaround until I release a new version of BubbleUPnP Server to address XBMC clown Media Server considering that "fanart" is a valid mime-type...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. No as I don't really want to add yet another option

2. You can use the Custom Mount point feature (Settings > Local Media Server > Content). Set the mount point to the directory (full path) you want to have direct access. It will be listed at the root of the folder hierarchy in Library (at the same level than the Filesystem folder).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You may want to force the shoutcast proxy in Settings > Shoutcast to see if that makes a difference (in case your Fritz renderer do not support that paricular stream).

If you still cannot get it to work you can send me a log file (see first post of this topic), trying to play that stream from XiiaLive.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The app does indeed cache folder content (not between app restarts!) once it has been browsed. You can refresh a folder using Menu > Reload.

If you still do not see modifications, maybe your NAS hasn't noticed the change itself (or is still busy rescanning) and may need a manual rescan.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ok.

Do you want to play gaplessly on your Android device (local renderer), or on the foobar2000 renderer? The latter will only be possible in the next foo_upnp release.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
- pushing images works here. What is the exact problem ?

- pushing video may be more hit and miss. First, you need to setup a video player for remote control in Settings > Local Renderer (MX player is recommended). Could help if you give more details

- what is WLAN Direct ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It should'nt be slow, it should be nearly instant.

What is taking a while ? browsing folders in Library ?

If you wish you can send me a log file (see first post of this topic).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I cannot think of anything in 1.6.1 that would make your Panasonic not discovered anymore.

If you still have this issue, can you check in other UPnP apps if it is discovered ?
[Android Apps and Games] pvdeejay:
Heh, at the end I would like both. but for now I am just trying to play my remote library served by foo_upnp on android locally. So I can enjoy some live mixes while I am falling a sleep. :)
[Android Apps and Games] PhilipJ:
would it be a huge effort to have the BubbleUPnP Server just ignore unknown (ie not standard) mime-types then ? I imagine xbmc might not be the only media server with its "own" mime-type(s), so ignoring unknown mime-types seems to be a valid default action.

After all, isn't that how UPnP clients (including BubbleUPnP) respond to unknown mime-types as well ?
[Android Apps and Games] wiggy g32:
I have this app on my galaxy tab but im unable to stream HD videos to my WDTV Live SMP. I get an error message saying "invalid argument 402" ive searched around and i cant find out what this means. SD rips work fine its just HD rips in .mkv format
[Android Apps and Games] mrusiniak:
Hi, i found some problems with using BubbleUPNP

I am using in on tablet Toshiba AT300.

First of all i am not able to run any media from Toshiba device on my Samsung TV (LE46D550) (reported "bad protocol info")

I can play threw BubbleUPN from PC(server: Samsung AllShare). either on T or Local renderer

I cannot play youtube links via sempervidlink to my TV (reported error: "The Local Media Server is not running")

Any ideas about both issues?

Thanks in advance