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[Android Apps and Games] Hamsie600:
Bubbleupnp and Tidal. Mixed flac and AAC files ?

Hi there. Very happy with Bubbleupnp, i use it on my android phone for Tidal and my Marantz Sr6010.

1 Problem thoug. Not all files on Tidal is in Hifi (or Flac) but some are en the lower AAC320.

I can set Tidal to Flac or AAC320, but there is no Auto function, så if i run it in flac mode, and want to hear a album in AAC 320 it wont play.

Then i have to change settings to AAC, and then change it again after to get Flac.

It makes making playlists a pain, since some og the music i hear is not yet in flac on Tidal. (eks. Eric Bibb- Troubadour Live album)

If i use Tidals own app it works fine, it just plays what ever file they have. But i need it to work within bubbleupnp so i can stream to my Avr.

Hope you understand it all. (not from a english speaking contry)

Martin.
[Android Apps and Games] BlagoBuster:
I checked just now (10th of May) and the Internet Connectivity Test result is GREEN (on the Status tab of the BubbleUPnP Server on the NAS), woo-hoo. So, was it the latest DSM update, or something on your end?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=7461785]Hamsie600[/MENTION]

Normally it should work: if you have set Audio Quality set to FLAC but a track is only available as AAC (either at 320 Kbps or 96 Kbps), the AAC track should play. But it's possible there is a specific issue with this Marantz renderer. Please send me a log file, attempting to play a track you know is in AAC format, while BubbleUPnP is configured to use FLAC for TIDAL.

EDIT: I think I found and fixed the problem. Only happens with some renderers.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=7448745]BlagoBuster[/MENTION]

Great! Nothing changed but could have been an intermittent failure of bubblesoftapps.com (which is performing the test).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
If you have scrobbling enabled in BubbleUPnP (Settings > Scrobble) this will disable sending metadata for BT.
[Android Apps and Games] nickname_marco:
anyone?
[Android Apps and Games] Fif_:
1. Settings > Control > Share to bubbleupnp > YouTube Quality

2. No, you need another app for that.
[Android Apps and Games] ssceddie:
Scrobble Method is disabled
[Android Apps and Games] goldme:
I have a few issues with the app at the moment. I'm using it to serve music for my MMI system in my Audi A6. When the phone connects to the in-car hotspot the MMI detects bubbleupnp as a media source and I can browse the files. The issues I have are:

1. When using Tidal and configuring the credentials I can browse Tidal on the phone and play music. But on the MMI I don't see the option to select tidal. I see local storage, Google Music, Box, Dropbox and so on but no Tidal option. Why is BubbleUPNP not serving the Tidal option to clients? I also installed foobar + upnp plugin and browsed the phone when connected to wifi and I don't see the tidal option there either.

2. Google Music works just fine. But 2 things don't seem to work. If I go to Google Music and download the file for offline playback (but I stay online) and then I play the file through bubbleupnp the file is downloaded again. I can see the data usage in MMI and I see the counter going up even when the file is already available for offline usage in Google Music. So I enabled the caching feature in bubbleupnp and selected a cache location hoping that when I play a file through bubbleupnp that it would get cached in this folder so that it would no be downloaded again. But this also does not work. The same file is downloaded again and again if it is played from Google Music. I don't see any caching (except for some small files for playlists, I think it is metadata). Why is the cahing feature not working with Google Music?

3. Even the DLNA servers I exposed through bubbleupnpserver are not offered through the bubbleupnp app. I can browse and play the file through the upnp server just fine through the app. But once I browse the offered folders (through upnp browser in foobar for example) I don't see any folder for this remote server.

This is a great app. I hope the Tidal function gets implemented.

Keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] tembares:
Play MKV video from Synology

Good day,

I have a Synology DS412play. I installed BubbleUPnP server on it.

I have a Chromecast 2 device in my Samsung TV.

I use

1) BubbleUPnP on my Android device OR

2) my Samsung TV -> Smarthub->Video

to start a video.

I downloaded MKV video files.

I cannot play the MKV video files. Not to the Chromecast 2 device and not directly from to my TV.

Any idea why?

Thank you in advance and looking forward to your advice.
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
bubbleguuum,

I have a track that BubbleUPnP Server transcodes and serves to the app on my phone, but I'm having two issues with it:

it's not being cached despite every setting being correct

it's not seekable

The only line I can see in the log that would give any indication as to why neither of those is working is this:

Yes, the track is over an hour long but it should still be seekable and cached. I can live with it not being cached (it would be nice if it was cached on the device) but not being able to seek is a pain. Can this be changed?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The 'Seekable tracks' option is disabled for tracks > 10 mins. The reason is that when this option is enabled, this will force BubbleUPnP Server to fully transcode the track before serving it to Android BubbleUPnP for streaming (and eventual caching). That's what makes it seekable straight away.

But at the expense of the full tramscoding delay, which depends on the track length, hence the limitation, to not have a 'wait time' of 1 minute or more before playback in more extreme cases (transcoding speed also depends on the hardware speed).

Normally this should not affect Android BubbleUPnP caching. One reason is that you must play enough of the track for it to be fully cached. For a 1h track, I think you have to play at least 55 minutes.

Also, assuming that you can get it cached, it will be fully seekable on subsequent plays.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=1047274]goldme[/MENTION]

1. Browsing TIDAL and Qobuz remotely is not possible on purpose, for specific reasons.

2. Google Music in BubbleUPnP operates totally independently of the Google Music app and what you may have cached here.

And the local caching in BubbleUPnP is only for playing locally (local renderer) music accessed remotely via BubbleUPnP Server (which provides access to your home media servers, when your phone is not connected to your home LAN)

There is no plan to add caching to Google Music, like you describe it.

3. I do not understand this point, please reexplain it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You post is a bit too vague.

On what media server are your MKV stored ?

Can you describe ' cannot play the MKV video files'.
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
Ah, that makes sense. However, as my normal drive to/from work is 30 minutes, I won't be able to cache it (requires 55 minutes), and I won't be able to seek it either (since it's not cached). Can the play time be changed to a much smaller duration for longer tracks so that they'll be cached sooner? Kind of a catch 22 here.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Not possible as the track is cached in real time at the same time it is streamed and prebuffered by Android with non-configurable prebuffering ranging from anything to 0-10 min of audio depending on many factors (Android version, bitrate, network bandwidth...). It could be overcome by downloading it at full speed independently of streaming but it would double the bandwidth and no plan to do that.
[Android Apps and Games] Daboa:
Hi. I love the app and the ability to stream my music. However, on my media server, BubbleUpnp is keeping my CPU at 100%. My "media server" is an old laptop (AMD Turion x2 processor), so it's not amazing, but BubbleUpnp still makes the laptop pretty much unusable--even though I pretty much just remote in to update my music library and download content. If I ever want to do anything on my laptop, I have to remote in and stop the service. I'm just wondering what the service is doing when my library isn't even being accessed by any devices.
[Android Apps and Games] mackowiakp:
Still can not choose MX player as local renderer, only ES Explorer player is possible to choose. App Picker does not help. My unit - Note 4 N910C, Android 6.0.1, stock firmware from Samsung + TWRP + root. Any idea what to do?
[Android Apps and Games] justreleaser:
Wonderful Perfect partner to Tidal to use Chromecast. Updates are also wonderful. I have widened source data significantly - I am completely blown away with how good Bubble is. :)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Sound like a bug, although difficult to tell what it is. Make sure to not keep a web browser page opened on the BubbleUPnP Server config, when not needed.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Verify in MX Player that 'Settings > General > Play media links' is enabled (it is by default).

Other than that, no idea.
[Android Apps and Games] goldme:
1. Could you please elaborate about these reasons? Is it a licensing issue or technical impossibility?

2. Clear

3. Foobar has a upnp browser plugin. I installed this plugin in foobar on my laptop. When I start the plugin I can see bubbleupnp running on my phone in the plugin because it advertises itself as a upnp server. I can browse the folders and everything. BubbleUPNP is serving the usual folders including google music. I added a DLNA server I have running in the network to bubbleupnp. So I can play all files served by this DLNA server via the bubbleupnp app on the phone. Because it is a DLNA server I expected bubbleupnp to serve the contents of this folder when I connect foobar to it. But the foobar plugin only shows the normal folders and no extra folder for the DLNA server that was added to bubbleupnp. So just as with Tidal and Qoboz: the contents of the DLNA server are not served to clients.

I then downloaded bubbleUPNP server and ran it. It is exposed correctly (green text in the webapp) and I can connect through the bubbleupnp app on android to this server. But then I try to browse the upnp server bubbleupnp is serving and there is no folder for this bubbleupnp server that I have running.

It seems that in general bubbleupnp will play all these sources just fine on the android device itself. But it is not serving anything other than local content and Google Music to clients when it advertises itself as a upnp server. It would have solved alot of my problems if I was able to serve at least the DLNA server through bubbleupnp or the content from the published bubbleupnp server I have running at home.
[Android Apps and Games] mackowiakp:
oice

Yes, my MX Player is set as You wrote. But formerly I had a choice to use VLC and any other players. Now ONLY ES Explorer player is avaliable
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. Let's say it is not due to a technical impossiblity.

3. Maybe the option you want is Settings > Network and settings > (network name) > Advertise on LAN: it will make BubbleUPnP advertise on the local network, all the media servers it has connected via BubbleUPnP Server. These servers will be visible in foobar2000 (and other UPnP software/hardware on the LAN Android BubbeUPnP is running).

Alternatively, in foobar2000, you can connect directly to BubbleUPnP Server (via View > Add remote Internet server). Refer to the BubbleUPnP Server doc for more info on this.

Of course all of this make sense when you want to access your home media servers on a network different than you home LAN (I asssume this is what you want to do)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No idea, but I've heard of a bug similar to this (applications that should be listed in the Share menu but that aren't)

after an upgrade from Lollipop to Marshmallow.
[Android Apps and Games] mackowiakp:
I never notice simmilar problems with any other app after upgrade to 6.0.1. Be so kind to look to Your app because at this moment it is not possible to use it on N910C.

Probably today I will remove ES Explorer and will reinstall BubbleUPNP without ES installed. Will look what happen
[Android Apps and Games] airtrack:
Is it posible to render a built-in subtitle :(

In my country we usually has a built-in subtitle in mkv files.

Please make it support.

(Paid bubble app on chromecast)
[Android Apps and Games] 8t88:
Stack storage support please!

Thanx for this brilliant app, is it possible make Stack cloud storage also available?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No plan for more cloud storage.

BubbleUPnP beta 2.7p1 is available, bringing a huge reduction in APK and installed app size.

Please test as much as possible for eventual regressions.

.
[Android Apps and Games] mackowiakp:
[SOLVED]

Problem solved. The procedure I made go as follow:

- de-install MX player + codecs

- de-install BubbleUPNP + licence file

- de-install EX Explorer

- reboot phone

- install licence file again

- from licence life install main app

- install MX player + codecs

- install ES Explorer

So procedure is similar to Windows based systems. As M$ stands. "What do You want to reinstall today" :laugh:
[Android Apps and Games] ajsalas:
License not working

I bought the license on Google play, but every time I open the app it doesn't recognize it.

I need to restart the app several times until eventually it recognizes it. Sometimes it works but mostly it won't.

It's getting very complicated to be able to make the app to recognize the license.

What can I do?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
OK, thank you for the follow up and letting us know the fix. Although we'll never know why it broke in the first place.
[Android Apps and Games] Muzz17:
Artist/composer

Hi, Thanks for the great app, best Control Point I've used for my music collection. Just one request, when browsing ALBUMS it shows the Album Art with the Album Name underneath and the ALBUM ARTIST/COMPOSER underneath that.

Would it be possible to have a selection in settings to only display the ALBUM ARTIST or both the ALBUM ARTIST/COMPOSER? I understand Composer is essential for Classical collections but if this field has been tagged with songwriters in modern music collection it doesn't make a lot of sense to display it at an album level. Or is this something in the way my media server is sending the info? Didn't think so, but I couldn't be 100% sure.

Other than that great product.

Cheers, Kel

Never Mind ... it WAS the media server... so you have an even better app!!
[Android Apps and Games] jaaptina:
On Facebook Auralic informs us Qobuz has fixed the streaming issued from server side for track seek and bitrate display problem:

This does indeed solve my problem. Finaly I can stream tracks using Bubbleupnp with my Qobuz Premium (mp3) account and Aries Mini in Lightning mode. (before this only worked in upnp mode). Great!
[Android Apps and Games] styler2go:
BubbleUpnp doesn't recognize my xbmc Server which also Acts as an Internet access. (Has ip 10.42.0.67 while the lan network has 192.168.0.255)

Can I manually add a device somehow?

Any other idea how I can add the xbmc as a Library?
[Android Apps and Games] goldme:
I have enabled this option and now the behavior is:

I start bubbleupnp on the phone and select my remote bubbleupnp server when I'm in my car.

I can play all songs on the phone that are served by the bubbleupnp server.

When I connect to the hotspot in my car: the car sees the bubbleupnp app on the phone and I can connect to it.

I can play the files through my car interface. I can browse the folders the bubbleupnp is serving and everything. All through UPNP tethering. These are the remote folders from home.

After a few minutes my car loses connection to bubbleupnp. The wifi on the phone is still connected to my car hotspot and bubbleupnp on the phone is still running. The network is stable (4g). I can still play files from my remote bubbleupnp server in the bubbleupnp app on the phone.

After a few seconds my car reconnects to the bubbleupnp app on the phone but now it starts playing the files that are on the phone instead of the remote bubbleupnp server! Bubbleupnp is not serving the remote files anymore. Only local files on the phone are served to the car.

I then select Google Music in my car interface from the folders bubbleupnp is serving and the car immediately loses connection to bubbleupnp but reconnects immediately and now bubbleupnp is serving the remote files again!

This happens every few minutes while playing the songs in the car which makes the app unusable in my case.
[Android Apps and Games] Mr. Odd:
Bug report: using the latest beta 2.7p1. It's been working flawlessly at home on wifi, but the last couple of days whenever I've gone out in the car using a cellular connection, it will randomly try to switch to a 'Nearby Device' from the Local Renderer and stop playing. Switching back to the Local Renderer results in another sudden switch within the first minute of playing.

Other details: Verizon, Samsung Note 4, playing media from microSD card.
[Android Apps and Games] fyah_:
webdav / owncloud

Hello,

It would be really nice if it was possible to connect to owncloud library / webdav support in the cloud options of bubble !

Maybe it is possible already but I did not find how.

Thanks a lot anyway for the really really great app !!! Using bubble everyday to cast music / movies. Transcoding flawlessly with the server running on my synology, this is just perfect

Cheers,
[Android Apps and Games] Daboa:
The windows service is still running and keeping CPU usage at 100%. I'm still able to stream (a little slow moving to the next song), but this seems like undesirable behavior in general. Let me know if there are any logs or diagnostics I can collect for you. Sorry for the delayed follow-up to my own issue.

Btw, the issue occurs even when my browser is closed. All I have running is MediaMonkey (my library) and BubbleUPnP.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Can you send me (bubbleguuum@free.fr) the BubbleUPnP Server log file (c:\Program Files (x86)\BubbleUPnPServer\BubbleUPnPServer.log.0) when the CPU is at 100%
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thank you for the feedback. No plan for more cloud services but I think you can browse webdav from ES File Explorer and

send/share files to BubbleUPnP from there.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Can you record and send me a BubbleUPnP log file while in your car in the situation you describe (hotspot, tethering etc), so I can have a

look at what is going on with networking. See the first post of this topic for logging instructions.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP must run on the same network than XBMC to see it automatically.

If XBMC is on another network, you can connect to it via BubbleUPnP Server.
[Android Apps and Games] LifeAsADroid:
Long story short, I'm attempting to play music videos sequentially in a playlist streamed from a cloud drive. I can do this with audio files no problem, but seem to be having difficulty with videos. Anyone know of a way to do this? Or a video player app that works with BubbleUPNP to do this?
[Android Apps and Games] Rontheron:
Album art help

Hi,

Really great app, but I'm having trouble with seeing album art.

I've got a Netgear Router with Sandisk 64Gb USB dongle permanently connected to it, always left on. The router is set up as a second router to extend the wireless range in my house. I've got about 250 albums on the Sandisk (mp3 with album art etc). I use BubbleUPNP on my Nexus 7 tablet and a Chromecast to listen to the albums through TV audio.

All works well apart from the album art.

If I remove the Sandisk, clear all the bubble stored data/cache. Reboot the Netgear and restart Bubble, all the album art eventually returns to show up in Bubble on the Nexus and on the TV screen. Problem is that if I shut down the Nexus and start it up later I find that some of the the album art is not showing up and eventually all will disappear and not show at all until I go through the clearing cache/reboot process I mentioned earlier.

I transferred the mp3 from PC to the Sandisk. The album art was embedded in the mp3s using Mp3tag. Each album is in a separate folder on the PC and the only files visible are the mp3s. When I look into these same folders on the Sandisk additional album art files are also present (presumably these are generated by either Bubble or the Netgear Media Server).

I'm doing something wrong but can't work out what it is. Can anyone help?

Thanks

Ron
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
If you play these videos locally to your Android device, sequential playback is not supported for technical reasons. it works when playing to an external renderer such as a TV, Kodi, etc.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP 2.7p2 beta is available. Please test !

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[Android Apps and Games] LifeAsADroid:
Thanks for the reply. I'm confused by the playing to an external renderer. If I use the mdl/hdmi port to play on TV, but the phone screen does not turn off while connected, this would not constitute rendering and thus not allow sequential play? Would I need to find a way to turn the screen on the phone off, then it would work?

Thanks for the new beta as well.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Playing locally = playing to Android using the 'local renderer' through a third party video player app such as MX Player. So it applies to playing to hdmi in your case.
[Android Apps and Games] Mike Rubin:
Hi. I am a longtime paid Bubble Upnp licensee. I suspect that my issue has been addressed before, but I didn't see it covered using "search" or in the portion of the 1100 pages that I managed to scroll before deciding just to ask :)

I recently purchased a Synology DS216+ that runs the current version of DSM 6.0. The NAS' own applications and the ones I added -- Minimserver and LMS -- never reliably have been detected by any of the renderers on my network. (This unit replaces a Buffalo LinkStation that never had detection issues for its version of Twonky.) Because of this, I added BubbleUpnp Server to the Synology. For a couple of months, it both reliably found servers on the Synology and elsewhere on the network AND found most of the renderers on my network and created OpenHome versions of them. I was pretty happy with what was starting to be a relatively predictable and stable system. (I can't get BubbleUpnp's internet-based functions to work, but that's not nearly as big an issue for me, so I simply disabled the internet access and made that a moot issue.)

Unfortunately, everything went south in the last week. There literally were NO changes to my system, initially, not even Windows updates or DSM updates. (Still am on Windows 8.1 after reverting from Windows 10.) In troubleshooting, I've restarted modem, router, computer and Synology NAS many times. I also have upgraded my Java 8 version. I don't know what I could have done to cause the changes.

Now, I find that BubbleUpnp Server only recognizes the three DLNA servers that are on the NAS (Synology Media Server, MinimServer, and LMS, for all of which I have created proxies). It no longer recognizes ANY renderers, which means that I no longer can use your OpenHome app on Android or Lumin on the iPad to stream to those devices.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled BubbleUpnp Server more times than I can count, so definitely am on the most recent version. Googling resulted in no useful advice. Any thoughts about what more I should do to troubleshoot this? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] ryu111:
Sorry for my ignorance but does the app has the feature to listen to the audio through headphones while casting?
[Android Apps and Games] sepulcrio:
could anybody help me ?....

when i try to play a video locally, only few player appear in player list. (this no appen in other app like i.e. total commander).

How can i solve ? i can't play video in mxplayer, it's one that not emerge in external player list.

thanks a lot

Nexus 6p Stock

ps

i try this but it doesn't works

[Verify in MX Player that 'Settings > General > Play media links' is enabled (it is by default).

Other than that, no idea.]