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[Android Apps and Games] tembares:
Hi all,

Thank you for reading my post.

Earlier I had CM11 on my S4 i9500. BubbleUPnp was working perfectly. Because I have Gear 2 now I switched to a Touchwiz ROM (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2731486). All apps were installed automatically due to backup/restore from Google.

After uninstalling BubbleUPnP and installing it again, won't help.

BubbleUPnP won't start at all, anymore: "Unfortunately, BubbleUPnP has stopped". I miss it much, so can someone advise me how to continue?

Thank you in advance
[Android Apps and Games] jmvangoeth:
I did it , but i'm sorry, stillnot transcoding.

Here are new log files following my new test

Thanks

JM
[Android Apps and Games] GROGG88:
I sent an email, but I figured I'd post here as well. 2.0.5.2 keeps showing an update available. I update and an hour later it shows an update available again. Just a heads up.
[Android Apps and Games] haggis999:
Limitations of BubbleUPnP's Local Media Server?

I recently completed ripping my collection of nearly 700 CDs to FLAC files for playing on my main hi-fi system at home and a combination of BubbleUPnP and MinimServer does an excellent job of handling this music (most of which is classical). My next ambition is to make my music easily accessible away from home on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 smartphone. The first step was to convert my FLAC files to MP3s for storage on a 128GB micro SD card that I have just installed in my phone. However, MinimServer is not currently available for Android and I have thus lost the ability to browse music files in my normal classical-friendly manner.

BubbleUPnP includes something called 'Local Media Server' but its browsing capabilities seem very limited. If I start by choosing the music folder I created on my SD card then I am simply presented with the folder structure on that card. As far as I can see, there is no ability to subsequently filter my choice according to any metadata tags.

Alternatively, if I start by selecting the 'Music' option of Local Media Server, I am presented with the option of selecting by Album, Artist, Composer, Genre, etc. However, this route does not seem to let me limit the search to the music folder on my SD card. Music files stored anywhere else on my phone are also included whether I like it or not. You are also restricted to a single metadata selection. In other words, I cannot first select a specific genre and then select by composer or artist within that genre.

Have I misunderstood the capabilities of BubbleUPnP's Local Media Server? If not, then are there more sophisticated alternative local media server apps for use on an Android phone?

David
[Android Apps and Games] Perinis82:
Hi,

I in fact had an old server running on a Windows computer, thanks for the advice, and I had totally forgotten about it. I uninstalled it in order to let the NAS handle everything regarding media. As a result, I can now send photos to the Chromecast through the app, wherever they are located (on the NAS or on the Android device). But I still cannot play videos.

Thank you for being so reactive.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
What kind of video (container, video and audio codec ?)

what is the output of "ffmpeg -version" on your NAS ?

If these are videos not supported natively by the Chromecast (such as avi) and the video part need transcoding, your NAS will

likely not be powerful enough to transcode it (alhough it will be for transcoding just audio). And that's assuming you have a working (and not too old) ffmpeg.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This is a Google Play issue. Double check that 2.0.5.2 is really installed (Settings > About/Help > Tips).

Try rebooting your device ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The local media server's Music subfolders are populated using the Android media database which scans and indexes music (and other media).

By default it scans all storage but you can exclude whole folders hierachy by creating an empty .nomedia file in a folder (Google it).

There's no Android UPnP media server with the level of configurability of the best Desktop and NAS media servers such as MinimServer (and Asset UPnP).

There's not even regular Android music players which let you browse music with 10 levels of filtering or any crazy browse tree that MinimServer allows.

If you want to stream you music collection while on the go and you're not in the middle of the desert, you could look instead into using BubbleUPnP Server to remotely access MinimServer with (optional) transcoding.
[Android Apps and Games] haggis999:
Thanks. I'll check that out.

The primary benefit of MinimServer is support for musical works with multiple movements and other classical-friendly features, which I am not expecting to find on any Android local media server until Simon Nash (the author of MinimServer) finds time to create an Android version. However, I was hoping to find something with at least 2 levels of filtering. Using 10 levels of filtering would indeed be a crazy thing to do but I doubt if any MinimServer users have a need for such capability (almost all my MinimServer browsing is limited to 2 or 3 levels).

BTW, what do you mean by "regular Android music players"? Is there an alternative solution to the server/renderer model?

I have already done that but there are two limitations. The biggest issue is that you don't have to travel to the Sahara Desert to hit connection problems. Here in the UK, the availability of a decent mobile data connection can vary hugely over quite short distances, even within a medium sized city like mine (perhaps it is better in London and Paris). I have also found that it will usually fail to work unless I transcode to MP3s with a low bitrate. I am assuming that this is due to the rather slow upload speed of my broadband service (362Kbps). Putting the files on an SD card in my phone allows me to use higher quality MP3s.

My first tests of BubbleUPnP Server were done while driving in my car but the signal was far too unreliable. Putting my music on a USB memory stick, after dynamic range compression via JRiver Media Center, provided a much more practical in-car solution, though the car's media interface is a bit primitive. BubbleUPnP Server was much more successful in a good quality Wi-Fi zone.

David
[Android Apps and Games] olwaldi:
still dropouts within kitkat

Any help? I have tried to analyze my problem

- streaming towards my Denon AVR from my Yoga works fine

- local playback has dropouts roughly all 10s

- if I switch to some other app during playback dropouts mostly vanish

- playback from some remote UPNP server shows the same dropouts

- but google play works flawless

Do you have any idea?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
For playing music on your Android device and stored on your Android device, you can simply use a (regular) music player app dedicated to this scenario such as Google Play Music, Poweramp, Shuttle+, GoneMAD, .... You have nearly infinite choice here since music players grow on trees, and may find an app that fits your needs. BubbleUPnP can also be used for this but you have many other choices possible.

Sure, a reliable network connection is need for BubbleUPnP Server use.
[Android Apps and Games] haggis999:
I still don't understand your use of the word 'regular'. That implies some sort of distinction between BubbleUPnP and those other apps (apart from the quality of design). What is the thing that makes BubbleUPnP a different category of player?

David
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The fact that these players can only do local playback from media stored on the SD card maybe ? Is that a distinction hard to understand ?
[Android Apps and Games] haggis999:
Sorry, I read your previous post too quickly and missed the bit where you said "For playing music ... stored on your Android device".

It is now obvious that your original reference to 'regular' players was meant to indicate those without UPnP or DLNA capability, but as the Google Play Store lists loads of UPnP music player apps it was not clear to me at the time that that was the distinction you were making.

David
[Android Apps and Games] eyeconic:
Headset controls

Device = Nexus 5

Any chance of getting headset controls to work? Usually one click to stop and two clicks to advance to the next track. I'm usually using this as a client. That is, the local renderer to a DLNA server on the network . By the way, I finally got the server working in Linux. A problem with something in KDE. The workaround is to enable gnomes native DLNA server.
[Android Apps and Games] demoleon:
Couple of Items

I love the new version but have a couple of issues:

When navigating the library tree down to the file level the header still has an album art derived background color. I have all of my settings set to dark so this isn't obeying those settings. All other areas seem to be obeying my dark settings.

Also, I am excited that you have added a thumbnail array option but I think it should be available at all levels of the tree. It looks like now it's just an option on the level above the track listing. In my case I have a lot of classical box sets so I have a album\disc number\tracks format so I can only use the thumbnail array at the disc number level which really is not useful.

Thanks,

John Swanson
[Android Apps and Games] simBun:
Can't create Sonos OpenHome device

I've just started looking at BubbleUPnP server again for two reasons, firstly to create an openhome renderer to serve music from mimimserver to my sonos speakers, and secondly to transcode material to my Chromecast.

I'm sure I've had this working before (although couldn’t swear it as I've tried lots of software configurations before), but I now can't create an openhome renderer of my Sonos play 1 speaker, all I receive is the message "192.168.1.249 - Sonos PLAY:1: could not create OpenHome device: java.lang.Exception: excluding Sonos ZonePlayer root device", unfortunately if I did have it working before, both speaker and BubbleUPnP server have been upgraded, so I couldn’t nail down which is at fault, I just wondered if anyone had an answer.

Are old versions of the server available?

Thanks otherwise for a great product that implements all the important aspects everything else fails to deliver.
[Android Apps and Games] twiztid_:
I love the app, but I've noticed that this app seems to prevent my phone from going to sleep, and the battery usage seems rather high, even when it wasn't playing anything.
[Android Apps and Games] dez93_2000:
Auto-update option for Synology NAS

Hi. Love the program, thanks for it.

I'm running the server successfully on a Synology NAS, setup as per instructions here, and - given the recent update - was wondering if it would be possible to make bubble server spk updates available for auto-update for these systems? See attached image: what's required is the URL for the package source. I tried http://bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver/BubbleUPnPServer.spk and http://bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver/ to no avail. Any ideas why this wouldn't work? Let me know if I can help by asking Synology what's required.

Cheers!

[IMG="Synology NAS screengrabs"]http://i.imgur.com/zBwPJmX.png[/IMG]
[Android Apps and Games] patrick.brage:
problem with removing subtitles

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this only happens when casting to chromecast not local renderer like mx player on my phone
[Android Apps and Games] Daiskei:
Any chance we will ever see the ability to mount as a FUSE filesystem within bubble like with GMusicFS?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
FUSE filesystems have nothing special from the POV of BubbleUPnP. With the full version of BubbleUPnP you can add a custom mount point in Settings > Local Media Server > Filesystem. It will then be listed in the Library tab, at the root of the local media server.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes, Chromecast subtitles are remembered, even if you remove it on your media server.

To not display it, simply cast your movie normally to the Chromecast and in the Now Playing screen unselect the subtitle using the subtitle icon in the action bar.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
If you did not modify Settings > Control > Kill on inactivity, the app should kill itself after 15 minutes if not doing anything (controlling a device, serving media, ...), and the screen is off. If it doesn't, it is a bug and in that case let me know details to reproduce it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes indeed, it is not possible to create OpenHome Sonos renderers with v0.8.3.

Maybe it is possible with v0.8.2, I don't remember (let me know if you need a non-Windows installer).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That's on purpose as the black theme does not mean every background is black.

Do you mean you'd like a grid view for individual albums tracks ?

Next version will allow grid view in more cases (folders containing generic folders with thumbnails) but not individual tracks.

In case I misunderstood your request, please post a screenshot of a folder you'd like to have a grid view.
[Android Apps and Games] sorepinky:
Hey Bubbleguuum, just to let you know that the latsest version of BubbleUPnP Server is FINALLY working beautifully with JRMC 19! No more of that "There is nothing to play" coming up on the JRMC interface. Every little upgrade that you do is making BubbleUPnP seriously AWESOME!
[Android Apps and Games] nupi:
I am trying to get myself to like the Google Music integration now that Cast to UPNP truly is dead but somehow I find the workflow of having to resync library very awkward. Any chance to make that whole process more dynamic (ideally like it works in Play Music) and let me search for music from All Access that I did not yet add to my library (Qcast can do that so it has to be possible for third party clients) ?
[Android Apps and Games] demoleon:
Couple of Items

Thanks for the reply.

1. Then I guess I'd like to request that there be an option for that background color just like the others in the settings so I can set it to black.

2. No I don't mean at the track level but basically all levels above. As I said I think now it is available at one level above the tracks (in my case disc number. probably for everyone else this would be album). It sound like you are planning this already so cool.

Great app!

Thanks,

John
[Android Apps and Games] Daiskei:
This will make my music show up in any player like GMusicFS does? I have it showing my Google All Access music on my Media Servers list in the Sense 6 music app but I would love to see the actual songs under "artists" and so forth.
[Android Apps and Games] patrick.brage:
yes i can deselect the subtitle but when i select subtitles again it shows the subtitle i have deleted from computer(server) not the new sub title but when i cast to my mobile the new subtitle shows but when casting to chromecast the old deleted subtitle shows.
[Android Apps and Games] twiztid_:
Thanks for the response.

I did not change the setting before, and it did show 15 minutes on the settings page, but still prevented sleep. However, changing the setting and re-selecting 15 minutes appears to have solved the issue, and BubbleUPnP will close properly while inactive allowing my phone to sleep.
[Android Apps and Games] simBun:
v0.8.2 (windows) didn't work either, but I went through my backups, retrieved 0.6.5 (debian), installed it and it worked, so it looks like somewhere along the line this functionality has broken.

Given there's been a number of releases since v0.6.5 I'd be happy to narrow it down to a version change if I had access to the releases, as Sonos is pretty clunky with it's tags, and minimServer and BubbleUPnP represent the perfect partnership.
[Android Apps and Games] hannemann:
Feature Request: Configurable FFMPEG binary/options

Hi,

first, many thanks for fixing the data stream thing. Great Job, works like a charm. Would be great if i could choose the streams to be downloaded too.

i have a little feature request:

could you please implement an optional possibility to configure which ffmpeg binary and options to use?

One would then be able to specify e.g. multithreaded on the fly conversion.

Would be highly appreciated since most of my Video Material is not compatible with chromecast and therefore needs to be converted on the fly, The result is stuttering playback if i choose to watch a recording of my VDR or DVD mpeg/iso rips.

In addition we could help finding the optimal default options.
[Android Apps and Games] patrick.brage:
Pleas help me i am going crazy trying to figure out why it seems to serve the first served subtitle when casting to chromecast i mean it is not even on the server so where is it so i can delete it. the work around is to manualy download the subtitle to my gdrive/phone an then select it but since i have everything else automatic i would be very glad to be able and correct wrong subtitle on the server( delete the old download new and its get served next time i cast the video):crying:
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The scenario of changing the subtitle file on the media server after playing the video once with another subtitle file is not currently handled properly (as you noticed).

Until I fix it, the workaround is to delete all files in folder Android/data/com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp/cache/ccsubs. This will force BubbleUPnP to take into account the updated subtitles, but will reset subtitles for all videos.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
On non-Windows installs you can write a ffmpeg shell script wrapper that would call the real ffmpeg with the options you want (or more likely modifiy the passed options).

Not recommended though unless you know exactly what you are doing.

there's no real need to specify -threads as libx264 uses all cores by default.

See this guide for possible solutions
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I checked and v0.6.5 is the last version not resulting in that error.

IIRC, this error results in a change for BubbleUPnP and (defunct) "Cast To UPnP" to have Sonos devices listed by their friendly name instead of something such as "192.168.1.249 - Sonos PLAY:1".

I'm a bit surprised it causes an issue in BubbleUPnP Server but I will have to investigate to fix it. In the web interface under the Renderers tab, how are your Sonos renderers named ?
[Android Apps and Games] hannemann:
I tried to write a wrapper script with no avail. Could you please provide an example on how to achieve this?

I can link to my installed binary and it works but how do i have to pipe the transcoded stream back to the Server if the call is wrapped by my own script?

I didn't know that but was meant only as an example.

I'll try this options ASAP

Thank you :)
[Android Apps and Games] patrick.brage:
Thanks! really grateful for answer and awsome app so easy just works. maybe you could add an clear subtitle function in the library when clicking on the three dots next to the film. that would serve sufficient for me. right now i just created i shortcut to the ccsubs folder for easy access just a tip to others.

And a feature request is it possible to add a chromecast default wallpaper to show when audio casting it would be more fun to watch then the moving android guy:angel:
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You must create a shell script named ffmpeg and located in the server's install directory.

If you have the real ffmpeg binary inside that folder, rename it to ffmpeg_real or something else.

Here's a simple pass through script:

#!/bin/sh

./ffmpeg_real $* # or use: /path/to/real/ffmpeg

Make the script executable with "chmod +x ffmpeg" and restart BubbleUPnP Server (through launch.sh, either directly or indirectly) so it uses this script instead.

For troubleshooting, monitor file /root/.bubbleupnpserver/BubbleUPnPServer.log.0
[Android Apps and Games] hannemann:
Looks quite similar to what i tried. Maybe i missed something. I'll try again and report back.

Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I've added just that in the subtitle dialog: a button that clears known subtitles. Can be used to refresh media server stored subtitles or to clear manually loaded srt.
[Android Apps and Games] farmersride:
Bubbleupnp Server on Ubuntu Precise - transcoding issue with libmp3lame

I having trouble getting video/audio transcoding to work on my embedded linux box:

Computer: Utilite Pro

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

Release: 12.04

Codename: precise

Bubbleupnp server installed using PPA method

From localhost:58050

bubbleupnp server version: 0.8.3

Audio Transcoding Supported: no (ffmpeg has no libmp3lame support)

Video Transcoding Supported: no (ffmpeg has no mp3 encoding support)

So I check to see if ffmpeg has libmp3lame support:

$ ffmpeg -codecs | grep libmp3lame

ffmpeg version 0.8.15-4:0.8.15-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developers

built on Aug 10 2014 18:31:32 with gcc 4.6.3

*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***

This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. Please use avconv instead.

EA libmp3lame libmp3lame MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)

This appears to be correct? no?... I don't know what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That version is too old anyway.

Download the Linux ffmpeg binaries from the BubbleUPnP Server web site and unzip in the installation directory.

Make sure they are executable:

chmod +x ffmpeg ffprobe

and restart the server.
[Android Apps and Games] simBun:
Under the Media Renderers tab of both 0.65 and 0.82 it has a name of "192.168.1.249 - Sonos PLAY:1", whereas in BubbleUPnP app it has "Office - Sonos PLAY:1 Media Renderer".

Thanks for your support.
[Android Apps and Games] hannemann:
[MENTION=237202]bubble[/MENTION]guum

Limiting the bitrate to 2000 did the Job. Everything seems to work really great with my Chromecast. Thank you very much

Sometimes rtfm is a quite good and even easy thing... :D
[Android Apps and Games] farmersride:
Hi Bubbleguuum,

Thanks for your fast response. I see that you are correct the version of ffmpeg is out of date. However I installed bubbleupnpserver and ffmpeg together using the process described on bubblesoftapps website (shown below). I would have assumed that would have pulled down the latest version of ffmpeg?

$sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bubbleguuum/bubbleupnpserver

$sudo apt-get update

$sudo apt-get install bubbleupnpserver

I wanted to add some more background information to this case. The computer is running ARM cortex A9 processor (not x86, not x64) and the Java info is below:

$ java -version

java version "1.6.0_30"

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.13.1) (6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.1)

OpenJDK Zero VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)

I am unsure how to install the most up-to-date version of ffmpeg on this computer. Static builds from Jon Severinsson PPA have a Ubuntu Precise version but I don't know how to install it. I added the PPA to my repository list but now what? sudo apt-get install ???? something.

I started to compile my own using the instructions from ffmpeg(dot)org but it was taking a long time and I started to doubt that it was even the right way to go about doing this.

I already bought a license for bubbleupnp - I'd really like to get this server working so I can use transcoding for chromecast (main reason for buying the license).