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[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Not sure what's happening here. In general, Serviio is not troublesome. Maybe force a rescan in Serviio (it can take a while so do not browse straight away).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Maybe you can generate a sample doing a short recording of a few seconds ?

I wonder if that menu item listed is not the cause of the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I'll look into it. Are you using the OpenHome local renderer or any other OpenHome renderer created with BubbleUPnP Server ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It has been found that some logitech renderers do not notify correctly their playback state, thus not proper control and track advance possible.

Try making an UpnP renderer of your squeezebox with Whitebear. It will probably work much better.
[Android Apps and Games] Henu:
An idiot cannot connect to any network and needs help.

So, I´m a bit new on these things and after trying to make this work for multiple days, I just had to ask for a bit help here.

To cut it short, I need to stream stuff out of my NAS in 3G. I can get things working in my home network with device search, but somehow I fail to understand what I should put into the server address in any network. In my home network the App can see my device and use it accordingly but if I try to put anything to the server it can´t find anything.

As far I understad I should put my internal IP for the server which would be 192.168.xxx.xx. No logins, no passwords. But it just gives me 404.

If I try in 3G I tried (among other things) my public IP 88.115.xx.xx with the credentials I´ve set for FTP login. The http- prefix gives only error and FTP is out of question on the prefix. I just can´t connect into anything, period.

I´m just basically loosing my sleep what the heck should I put anywhere to make this work? I can accesIbox v!s my NAS with FTP, so I know that there´s at least port 21 open and acting accordingly. I´m using a Dlink 320L and a Bewan Ibox V1 Router with static IP.

Any help would be much appreciated- if I get this test working I will 100% buy it as I need the unlimited streaming options.
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
To stream over 3G, you need to run BubbleUPnP Server on any machine in your home network.
[Android Apps and Games] tommi.a:
Thanks.

It doesn't work in these cases (didn't test other combinations):

Local OpenHome renderer on N7 doesn't resume on current track but on first in playlist.

Same problem with control point on N7 and OpenHome renderer + server on SGS.
[Android Apps and Games] Henu:
Thanks- so it isn´t enough that my NAS has UPnP enabled but it also needs BubbleUPnP Server installed? This particular NAS I´m having (DLink 320L) is- as far as I know- supposed to be stream stuff out from the box, though, so that´s why I´m a bit puzzled. I guess it´s impossible then, as I don´t think there´s an option to install any extra software to the box itself. Or what would you say?
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
UPnP is designed to work on a local network only. BubbleUPnP Server overcomes this limitation and provides streaming through the internet from any UPnP Server in your local network to BubbleUPnP@Android or to foobar2000.

BubbleUPnP Server requires Java to run. I'm not familiar with the DLink NAS. If you manage to install Java on the DLink, you will probably be able to run BubbleUPnP Server. This will require some Linux knowledge, though. There are installable packages for QNAP and Synology NAS devices.

However, it is not a requirement to run BubbleUPnP Server on the NAS, you can run it on any machine in your local network, e.g. a Windows PC.
[Android Apps and Games] sordna:
Ah, that sounds perfect! Ok, will be looking forward to that, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] awaldram:
Good idea min I can record is 2 mins , sent you a PM with link. (195Mb)

you could be right about the menu item Totem has a bit of a moan about it.

"Videos requires to install plugins to play media files of the following type: private/teletext decode"

Though doens't bork, proceeds to play with subs.

Is there any incatation to make ffmpeg ignore it .?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks I got the video.

It happens that I have fixed this issue in my dev version of BubbleUPnP Server some time ago but totally forgot that I did!

It is the dvb_subtitle track in the TS stream that's causing the failure. These tracks cannot be included in a MKV transcode (for obscure reasons only ffmpeg devs know about).

In case of failure, my fixed version retry the transcode command without including the subs, and I can confirm that it works in that case, playing to MX Player.

So that will be fixed in the next version of BubbleUPnP Server...
[Android Apps and Games] awaldram:
That sounds like a good solution , any eta on a production release as this is causing me some issue.?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I will send you an unnofical version with the fix until I make an official version (not sure when).
[Android Apps and Games] Hypocritus:
Hi bubbleguuum,

Thanks for all your hard work on this app. I know the community appreciates it..

I have an EVO 3D, rooted w/ ICS. I am having a problem trying to play stereo 24-bit 96kHz files (FLAC and wav). It will only play them mono, not stereo. I can play them in stereo with another audio player (verified by listening). Is this a current limitation of the software?

Thanks again,

- hypocritus
[Android Apps and Games] Konstigt:
Just tried using my licensed BubbleUPnP to play from Google Drive to my XBMC HTPC. Works, but if I do swipe next or slideshow, it only shows the images, not the videos. If I play the videos individually they work fine though (mp4's with H.264 video).

Also, loading the images of course takes some time, depending on your connection. But, if I show some images and then scroll back a few I assumed they would be cached but it doesn't seem that they are?

And the time it takes to load is often quite fast on my phone but takes several seconds to display on XBMC, where is the holdup? Is it most likely my network, XBMC, BubbleUPnP or the protocol perhaps? Displaying a photo from the phones local library takes about 3 seconds every time I switch to the next but from Drive it takes 5-10 seconds.

Edit: One more thing, feature suggest: Please add option to clear Now Playing & Playlist on exit.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This is a known bug with no fix yet. Your best bet is to setup your Media Server to transcode such files to 44.1/16 or 48/16 WAV. It is better to have your media server do it rather than BubbleUPnP (supposing the mono bug was fixed)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Expected: if you click an image in Library, only the images of the containing folder are loaded in the image viewer.

The image viewer cache in memory the currently displayed, prev and next image (only for displaying on your Android screen). The next image is always preloaded while current image is displayed. There is no preloading on the target renderer: the image is loaded by the renderer at the time you swipe to it in the image viewer, that's why it takes longer. Something can probably be done to improve loading times here, I'll have to think about it. Loading images from cloud services, possibly super big, in a timely manner, without exploding RAM and CPU usage, is really challenging.

It's too bad that most cloud services (except Skydrive) do not provide a lower resoluition of a user's 4Kx4K photos for faster loading.

No promise, but I'll see.
[Android Apps and Games] Konstigt:
Is there a workaround for this? I import my photos and videos to the same folders and when I watch them it would be optimal to display whatever object comes next, photo or video. Or do I need to make another feature request? :)

Aha, would be very nice to have preloading at the renderer as well. Yes, please give it some though because I think this is "the future", having all our photos & videos @ some cloud service.

But, regarding thumbnails, when I share a directory in Drive, only containing photos/videos, I share via an URL. When I load this URL in a browser, I see thumbnails of all objects (190x142 px when saved to disk). Can't these thumbnails be used?

Example: these are the URLs of 3 photos on Drive. First thumbnail 190x142, then the full-size image. Note the =s190 and =w1136-h505 at the end of the URLs.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Z7T0DnMlhyVSVjccE4sBeJzYpJltOtaICODbXLZY5CGtd7qxGmM8kuFC_vayDVeA3A=s190
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Z7T0DnMlhyVSVjccE4sBeJzYpJltOtaICODbXLZY5CGtd7qxGmM8kuFC_vayDVeA3A=w1136-h505

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/cTU58WyAyrr4REUE1Un-pSOMWD0bB2gqo2ctpeIOsdr_EPl_0OZxJnZcB2bZHpkH7g=s190
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/cTU58WyAyrr4REUE1Un-pSOMWD0bB2gqo2ctpeIOsdr_EPl_0OZxJnZcB2bZHpkH7g=w1136-h505

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/6S_ZdpmUjQ7r10VnAleiZpPVJVXdrkkVRSjMAgxiAuKeoC4WNCEEfkwUzHx5nXoJ_Q=s190
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/6S_ZdpmUjQ7r10VnAleiZpPVJVXdrkkVRSjMAgxiAuKeoC4WNCEEfkwUzHx5nXoJ_Q=w1136-h505

One more thing I was missing, when I'm home I have all these photos and videos available locally over NFS. Can this be used in BubbleUPnP? Just as it is used in XBMC, the NFS mount is done within the app itself and does not rely on external programs (AFAIK).

Rgds//Thomas
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You can use the play or enqueue buttons to add all items of a mixed photo+video folder to the Playlist tab.

Then use the Now Playing screen for control. Starting a slide show will not be possible in that mode.

The thumbnail URL is alreay used to display thumbnails when browsing folders in Library

These w and h parameters are interesting and seems to indicate server-side resizing is possible for arbitrary values.

I will certainly look into what can be done with them to cut down download times.

Simply enable XBMC UPnP Media Server and use it on your LAN to access its content.
[Android Apps and Games] Hypocritus:
bubbleguuum, thank you for your personal attention and support! Thanks for letting me know!
[Android Apps and Games] aLPaSLaN07:
Hi [MENTION=3373153]bubbleguuum[/MENTION]

Great all in one app. I use it for everyday as my main music player as well as controlling my Computer - TV DLNA interaction.. But it would be awesome if there has been a "sort by time (newest to oldest etc)" feature in playlists and library. I sometimes need to go to my dropbox folder and start streaming from there because dropbox has sorting :) We have a community that uploads music to a shared dropbox folder and I would like to see what songs are the newest but I can't..

Thank you for the great app.. Most usefull app for me currently..
[Android Apps and Games] dkman123:
Long click only shows Download and Show metadata

I set up a new media server on Ubuntu 12.04, but I'm having some strange results.

I have MediaTomb and BubbleUPnP set up on my laptop and my android clients work fine. When a video can't play it dies with a message after trying to load in the video player.

The new media server will play mp3s, but very few videos will play.

On the laptop that's working:

A long click shows a menu with 8 options, including Play, Enqueue, etc

Pictures load thumbnails

Clicking a video launches the video player, short loading icon, then plays

On the media server:

A long click shows a menu with 2 options, Download and Show metadata

Pictures do not load thumbnails and do nothing on click (long click shows same 2 options)

Clicking a video do nothing (no video player, no loading icon, a long click only shows the 2 options)

There a a very few videos that will play. I got mp3s to work fine, but nothing else wants to flow. I was having permission issues, which showed in the logs, but this "do nothing" issue does not log.

It's a fresh install, so do I need codecs or something special? They all play fine in VLC.

I've tried telling the android client to transcode to 480p / 128Kbps to no avail. All of the file names show.

Something else I concidered is that sometimes the web server is trying to return /something/Content/blabla/stream?param (paraphrasing), and a temp folder would make sense for thumbnails and streaming content. Is there a folder or a file used there that need a chgrp for permission purposes?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Sorting folder by time could be done when that info is available (Filesystem, most cloud services).

I'll consider it but no promise as it is less trivial than it looks.
[Android Apps and Games] aLPaSLaN07:
Yeah it is not so vital (it is for me but in general it may not be) but details makes a product perfect :) Not claiming it is not , it is perfect already.. By the way, I appreciate your effort to give support to users' all requests and questions. It is rarely found..
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It is now possible to access BubbleUPnP betas delivered by Google Play (as if it were regular releases). It requires a Google+ account.

It is particularly useful if a beta include a bug fix you reported or a new feature you suggested, so you do not have to wait for an official release (and can report eventual issues).

I will be making regular beta releases (once or twice per week), all of them with a changelog.

If you are interested, refer to this Google+ post for all the details to opt-in to receive betas.

I've made the first beta (1.7.3p1) available:

added Settings > Display > Startup screen. "Last screen displayed" choice works both if exiting the app with Menu > Exit, or the back key.

added Settings > Control > Wait for renderer on startup. Disable if you you do not want the app to wait for the last renderer used to appear on startup

show play/enqueue buttons in album folders containing mixed items + folders (seen with Minimserver multi-disc albums)

the local media server can be hidden (long-click > Hide)

fixed "Searching for device" popup showing up if no network

fixed some devices names not showing special characters properly

fixed D-Link NAS streaming to a BubbleUPnP renderer on the LAN not working

fixed some Sony renderers not working anymore by default with Shoutcast streaming (regression)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Problem fixed. On app exit, the local OpenHome renderer was not saving the last track played position in Playlist.
[Android Apps and Games] Henu:
Thanks for all the help!

I managed to install Java on my NAS and I installed BubbleUPnP server as well. I got it working just fine via Putty command line, but the moment I exited Putty the server went down. Before that I actually tried it via 3G and it worked wonders. :) But am I stupid or have I understood something wrong, as I was under the impression that when I start BubbleUPnP on my NAS, it will run as long as the NAS is on...?

Which brings me to the second question- how could I implement a command line to start on NAS boot to start BubbleUPnP as well? As we speak, it isn´t on and it resets to zero (and stops working) every time I don´t have Putty running it. The ports 58051 and 58050 on my router also get closed when the server isn´t running- is that normal?

I started BubbleUPnP manually via Putty on my computer with the command

cd /mnt/HD/HD_a2/BubbleUPnP

java -jar BubbleUPnPServer.jar

and it worked just as it should. I just had to login to http://192.168.xxx.xx:58050 again to enter all the info again. Is it normal also that the info disappears every time server is restarted or is there a way to make the server "remember" all the information?

Tested configuration- all fine, ports open and server running. The moment I closed Putty, I couldn´t access to server settings (and my router also closed the ports) anymore and quite clearly I could see that the server wasn´t running anymore at that point.

Obviously I shouldn´t be running Putty in another computer in order to run BubbleUPnP server from my NAS, so I´m clearly doing something wrong here- the question is what? Any help would be much appreciated.

(TL;DR- How can I start BUPnP automatically with a java (?) boot command line when the NAS reboots and keep it on without anything running on my computer- and how can I make the interface to remember all the info I filled after server restart?)
[Android Apps and Games] drewofdoom:
Opus support?

I know that Opus has been mentioned a couple of times already in this thread, but I would like to bring its attention back in focus.

The Opus codec has become (in many eyes) the codec to rule them all. Allowing for native Opus support in this very popular app will push other software (read: server software) to consider it more readily.

If servers start supporting it as a native file as well as a transcoding target, our streams will be more efficient, providing greater quality at a significantly lower bitrate.

Furthermore, it's free and open source. Really, there are no downsides to supporting it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The problem with OPUS is that:

- not many media servers support it

- even less renderers support it natively

- a media server that support it will certainly have the ability to transcode it to WAV or LPCM making these files playable to most renderers

- it is not supported as a standard Android media codec. Thus for local playback, I'd have to integrate it myself and I'm not sure a pure Java decoder exists.

And I wouldn't be surprised if it made an appearance in Android 4.4, so it is better to wait.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
New beta (1.7.3p2) soon available through the beta G+ subscription:

fixed local media server failure to play some video types to some samsung TV models (most notably: MKV)

fixed local OpenHome renderer not saving current track position in Playlist, on app exit

[regression] fixed Google Music All-Access tracks failing to stream on some renderers (Cambridge Audio)

if playing shoutcast fails, display a toast to enable shoutcast proxy

if playback fails with "no streamable url found", suggest WMP can be the cause
[Android Apps and Games] pdf1964:
When I go to the G+ subscription page I get this error:

404. That’s an error.

The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

Thanks for continuing to develop this great product.

Paul
[Android Apps and Games] sublimejosh2000:
Do you know if you will be adding Chromecast support to the Beta additions. I have 2 and would be willing to test.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It may take a few minutes (up to 30 mins) until that error go away. Does it work now ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No Chromecast support until Google makes it possible to have it working on all Chromcast devices (not just those that are whitelisted for development). Be sure that when this is possible, there will be an update!
[Android Apps and Games] pdf1964:
I continue to get the same eror.

Paul
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Make sure you are logged with the Google account you used to join the community.
[Android Apps and Games] Fieperskaivu:
New test: I was at a friends house who has a Galaxy S3 and a Windows 7 64 bit PC (my exact setup). I set up Bubble UPNP on their phone, then installed and set up Bubble UPNP Server on their computer. Exact same issue as mine! LAN or WAN access to the Server allows me to browse all folders and yet no files of any type are visible at all. I tried connecting to my networks with their phone and theirs with mine, same issue all around. Yet in both cases it works flawlessly if the only using the direct connection to the media server (not through Bubble UPNP networks I've set up). Any thoughts? Love the app and server and when they worked I used them all the time, but it's been a few months now that I've had this issue, tried everything I can think of.
[Android Apps and Games] pdf1964:
I only have 1 Google account.

Paul
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Weird issue. I'm unable to reproduce it with the latest version of PS3MS although I think someone else reported it. Can you send me an Android BubbleUPNP log file, browsing PS3MS through the WAN to a folder containing items ? (see first post of this topic for logging instructions).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Can you double check you really joined the "BubbleUPnP Beta" G+ community ? : https://plus.google.com/communities/113405038554741017351
[Android Apps and Games] pdf1964:
User error! I could have sworn I did, but I must not have. We are good to go. Sorry for the spam!

Paul
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
Opus would be nice! I think there are a few players on the Play market that support Opus so I am sure there are sources out there. (Neutron Music player and GMD Music Player just to name a few off top of my head).

Certainly hope to see Opus as a local support at least for BubbleuPNP
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
For some reason, some of my FLAC are showing up playtime is for each track @ 99:59:59 for the entire album. why is that? I 'm serving from a Twonky Server 7.2.1
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Are the individual track times correct ?
[Android Apps and Games] mbze430:
nope the individual track all say 99:59:59. Now I have some Flac that is perfectly fine. Then I have the one that shows 99:59:59, and PLAYS... then I have one album that say 99:59:59 that won't play through BubbleUPNP but will play with another player.
[Android Apps and Games] reyemtm:
have to restart phone for bubble to start

I have bubble upnp media server running on an android set-top box and can see the bubble media server using ArcMC on my phone, but when I start bubble on my phone I get the 'problem initializing the UPnP service...try restarting the app after rebooting device' error, and if I reboot the phone it does work. Funny because I bought your app due to errors with ArkMC on the server side. I am not using any beta versions.
[Android Apps and Games] Alaemon:
Readynas duo v2

Is there a way to install bubbleupnp onto the netgear readynas duo v2?

I have bubbleupnp on my phone and can play video off the readynas on my phone and I can play files from my phone to my TV, but what I really want is to play the same file right from the readynas to the TV.

Can anyone help me please.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Looks like a Twonky bug returning wrong track durations to BubbleUPnP.

Since I have v7.2.1 you can upload such a FLAC somewhere I can download it (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc) so I can check what is happening. If you can, upload a playing and non-playing one.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
So your TV will play your NAS files when being controlled by BubbleUPnP, but not when directly browsing your NAS from the TV interface ?

You can try making a proxy Media Server of your NAS Media Server with BubbleUPNP Server, and browse the proxy server on your TV. To check if it will solve your problem, first test it with the easy BubbleUPNP Server Windows installer.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There's a good chance your Android device is affected by this Android bug, fixed in Android 4.2:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34022

You can send me a log file (see first post of this topic) so I can confirm it.
[Android Apps and Games] Alaemon:
I can play them on the TV through the blu ray player. See it all linked up but the blu ray will not play the file if its coming right from the nas,(it say unsupported format) but will play the same file if it from my phone with bubbleupnp running. That why I was asking is there some way to install bubbleupnp on to the readynas.

How would I setup a proxy Media Server on the Readynas, I believe the OS is a custom Linux OS.

I was just able to make it play on the TV from the readynas with my phone. (after installing the windows Media Server on my computer)

I changed the renderers to the blu ray player (on my phone) and selected the file on phone it started on the TV. If you get what I mean.

This is great for me but doesn't help the kids having to take my phone all the time.