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[Android Apps and Games] blotsome:
I like the functionality this brings me, but have a few questions. My set up is music library on USB drive plugged into router with DLNA. Access library via BubbleUPnP app on android tablet and phone, and cast to Chromecast renderer which is then plugged into stereo.

My problems are:

1) no album art shows up. I have files with embedded images, and I have downloaded cover.jpgs for nearly every folder. Still zero art.

2) When I navigate to my library, I go Media->Music->Artist and I have a dozen "null" folders that show up. Metadata is filled out for "artist", so I'm not sure what else is preventing them from showing up in an artist folder instead of (null).

3) Is there a way to view by folder structure instead of album/all/artist/genre/playlist? I've spent time organizing my library into folders and all that work gets erased into "null" folders and mixing in singleton artists, it would be nice to view the folder structure I created to aid ease of navigation.

Thanks,
[Android Apps and Games] msssm:
I know I could reach the meadia-server or some BubbleUPnP via VPN, but actually having a media server is for local network purposes.

I tried to save copies of podcast tracks from the media server to some saved playlist, but they still reference the local address and never reveal the outside address.

However why is the link to the scripts currently broken, that tried to download additional scripts when adding such a supported website URL?
[Android Apps and Games] jacobacci:
Hi all

bubble is my go to UPnP control point. It is by far the best app out there.

Currently I am facing an issue re. gapless playback with my dCS Rossini DAC.

I use the following configuration

Synology NAS with MinimServer and BubbleUPnP Server

Rossini configured as OH renderer in BubbleUPnP Server

Gapless selected in Bubble Android

I cannot get the Rossini to play gapless. There is always a gap of around 1 second between tracks.

Is this a known issue with Bubble / Rossini?

Thanks a lot
[Android Apps and Games] patzhong:
Playing mp3 playlist

I am playing a mp3 playlist using BubbleUPnP app..

I have several files on the list. How come it just plays the mp3 I click on and when it finishes playing it goes back to BubbleUPnP background screen saver ? Doesn't it play continously the other songs in the list in the order it is listed ? How do I make it do that and make it do endless loop in the playlist?

Thanks

Zhong
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=4374052]patzhong[/MENTION]

Assuming you have several tracks in the Playlist tab (that is, the playback queue), this might be a renderer specific bug with track advance.

You can if you wish send me a log file, playing a track until next one does not play (see first post of this topic for logging instructions)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=6428809]jacobacci[/MENTION]

Gapless playback must be enabled in the BubbleUPnP Server web config pages, renderers tab, click on your renderer > Gapless playback. And then

there is no guarantee it will work properly.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5868245]PaulLFC[/MENTION]

Item titles prefixed with binary numbers is actually a feature, or rather a workaround.

The PS4 media player app will always sort alphabetically all folders no matter what (unless it changed recently but I don't think so).

This is of course idiotic and undesirable as you certainly do not want to play albums (or playlists) with tracks in alphabetic order.

The prefix binary numbers is a workaround added by BubbleUPnP to preserve the original and correct order sent by BubbleUPnP.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. Album art depends on the media server supporting it. Most (but not all) will recognize Folder.jpg. Many basic media servers do not support embedded album art at all. And media servers found on routers are often very basic and barebones.

2. Probable bug of your media servers returning bogus folders...

3. Filesystem browsing has to be supported by your media server. If it doesn't expose a filesystem folder structure then it likely does not support it.

Since all your issue seems to comes from the embedded media server running on your router, I really advise if possible to use a proper media server such as MinimServer on a NAS or a desktop computer.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=2728418]Dexter666[/MENTION]

[MENTION=3257020]wondroushippo[/MENTION]

For local Android Playback, BubbleUPnP always passes the stream (whether mp3, FLAC) as is to the Android MediaPlayer API in charge of decoding it and playing it. Now whether Android will internally resample or not, I do not know. And it may even entirely depend on Android devices, versions, and manufacturer (for example, Samsung and Sony have their own tweaked audio stack).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do vs podcasts, but a possible solution is to use a podcast app such as Pocket Casts and send podcasts to BubbleUPnP via their "play to external player" (or similar) feature.
[Android Apps and Games] jacobacci:
Thanks, bubbleguuum

Unfortunately gapless does not seem to work with the Rossini.

I will approach dCS about this.

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] PaulLFC:
Thanks for the explanation! I installed the new 3.0 update for the PS4 Media Player today, and can confirm that they're still persisting with the bizarre decision to sort everything alphabetically.
[Android Apps and Games] wondroushippo:
Thanks for the response! I'll have to check back with Fiio on the X5-III – there's a chance based on some default settings that it's going to 48 kHz (I think it does that with UAPP) but it also might just be playing it back at native resolution!
[Android Apps and Games] msssm:
I'm not sure how that BubbleUPnP feature works, but adding some website URL usually adds the video or audio file, adding a podcast URL could add some playlist in BubbleUPnP. Anyway, when you are going to add that URL to BubbleUPnP, then it is starting to download 2 additional files for this feature support, those 2 file downloads are always failing. So what is broken there?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Download of these 2 support files is not supposed to fail. It doesn't on my devices and I did not get another report of it failing. Can you send me a log file attempting this failed download so I can have a look (see first post of this topic for logging instructions) ?

Once these 2 files are installed, your URL load, although very slowly and I need to look into it.

Still, why not use a regular podcast app and send/share podcasts to BubbleUPnP ?
[Android Apps and Games] msssm:
-> https://jira.lineageos.org/browse/REGRESSION-277
[Android Apps and Games] vlad2005:
Hi!

First problem: I try to play sopcast to my tv using Bubbpleupnp. Some streams seem to have buggy aspect ratio and chromecast don't show well on TV. Maybe an option to fix aspect ratio for video that are send to chromecast will be useful.

Second problem: My TV is sony Bravia KDL-40W605B. It's DLNA compatible, i have serviio in my network and work very well. I see bubbleupnp in my media server list on tv, but can't find any resource to play. I have everything enabled in settings (in fact all is default) but i don't know why don't see any resource from bubbleupnp.

I use Bubbleupnp 2.8.7 and android 4.4.4.

Thanks in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP v2.8.8 published on Google Play.

Changelog

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[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. BubbleUPnP cannot instruct the TV to change aspect ratio. However, when the video is playing, look if you cannot change it with the TV's remote or on-screen UI.

2. Do you men you can browse folders exposed by BubbleUPnP but they are empty ? Any error message displayed by the TV ?
[Android Apps and Games] vlad2005:
1. My suggestion is especially when render to Chromecast. In this case, because video is transcoded, maybe can fix and aspect ratio. When use Chromecast, can't change display mode from tv. This is why I try to use bubbleupnp as dlna server.

2. I don't see any error. Simply tv "say": there are no items to display
[Android Apps and Games] minneyar:
Out of curiosity, are there any plans to add Android Auto support? I've been using BubbleUPnP for a few years now and just got a new car that has Android Auto integrated into it, and it'd be great to be able to use them together.
[Android Apps and Games] fouad-92:
awesome
[Android Apps and Games] Timoxax:
Chromecast video stops playing after 5 minutes.

Hello kind people. I have a following issue here with streaming video from my PC to chromecast device on TV with Android bubbleupnp app and pc server transcoding.

Whenever i start streaming a movie located on my PC through my local wi-fi network all goes fine. But after a while (Around 5 minutes) playback stops and it shows "bubbleupnp" logo on my TV screen. If i press play again on my android APP, it starts playing again but stops after a while. Basically i cannot watch any movie or video till the end without it getting stopped for some reason after 5 minutes or so of playback.

Specs:

Android Xiaomi redmi note 3 pro cellphone

Premium purchased for bubbleupnp

Windows 10 latests update with DLNa enabled folders and DLNA supporting zyxel keenetic extra ii router.

Chromecast device on my wi-fi network.

Any ideas how can i fix that randomly stopping playback problem? CAnt use device for watching my home movie collection.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Cheers.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No plan currently.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
If you are using Windows 10 built in DLNA media server powered by Windows Media Player, I really do not recommend using it with

Chromecast as it can be problematic. Instead I advise to use Serviio or Kodi.
[Android Apps and Games] cmg2006:
Problems with audio playing video via chromcast

Hi i need help i been playing movies encoded with dts and dobly digital 5.1 via chromcast but it only play pcm 2.0 a few moths ago i was able to played with dobly via chromcast what i am doing wrong? I have enable trancode for chromcast, preserve multichanel audio, ac-3 pass through. Any will be appreciated
[Android Apps and Games] Dexter666:
After 30+ minutes of streaming to my AVR audio drops or start to skipping, is there anything I could try to fix that (mb buffer etc)?
[Android Apps and Games] sv_93:
Album art covers issue ?

Hi,

I'm using the licenced version of BubbpleUPnP on my Android smartphone.

When I'm accessing to my local music library (stored on my smartphone SD card), album thumbnails are correctly displayed.

When I'm browsing an external music library (stored on an USB HDD connected to my internet box), I don't see any album cover. This issue is not due to the files tags: I made a test with the same files both on my SD card and on my HDD.

Is there something to do in the settings to display these thumbnails?

Thank you for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] szkzs:
Dear Bubble Player Developer!

I have almost the same issues like the post before me.

I am using the last Pro version on my Tablet Galaxy Tab S2 Android 6.01

My Audio collection folder is on the SD Card Inside a Folder "Audio Collection".

From the first time I get this new Tablet, and try to play music on it with your software

I realized that No cover Art can show up for any of my CD Album.

And until now I was not able to figure it out why. Today I had a luck!

Before my every Audio folders contained the following files....

Audio Album Folder Name: ..........

Artist Name - Album Name

Inside the folder has the following files....

(1) Artist Name - Track Name.flac

(2) Artist Name - Track Name.flac

(3) Artist Name - Track Name.flac

so on with the Tracks.......

Artist Name - Album Name.jpg (Same name like the Audio Album Folder)

folder.jpg

From this kind of Album, your players was not able to fetch the Cover Art at all!

But, if inside the Audio Folder has a Cover Art picture named "AlbumArtSmall.jpg"

your software can show me the Cover Art of the album.

This is by designe, or a bug?

I taught the "folder.jpg" or the "Audio Folder Name.jpg" going to be enough for your Players Cover Art Handlings?

Oh, I use only External Cover Art. I don't like Embeded Cover Art .... I never try it with your software.

The reason I don't like using Cover Art with the Name "AlbumArtSmall" on the Android, because they

show up in the Android Gallery and I don't want that. ..... Gallery with a full of Cover Art Pictures. Annoying.

Picture Gallery is for my real pictures....

Can you instruct your software to fetch Cover Art ... Named ..... "folder.jpg" or "Folder Name.jpg"???

Note!

"Folder Name" is the whatever name is my Audio Album. You know what I mean? (Not "Folder Name.jpg" exactly!)

Thank You Very Much for your Nice Software, and your Help! SzKZs. :)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5274491]szkzs[/MENTION]

Is you audio collection on the removable sd card slot ? Or on regular internal storage ?

Folder.jpg should always be recognized by the Android media scanner, at least for media being on regular internal storage. Make sure

file Folder.jpg is listed as Folder.jpg and not folder.jpg.

You can also force Android to rescan your music and album art:

- in the Android settings, "clear data" for the "Media Storage" system process (in the Apps setting page, 3 dot menu > Show system, to show system processes)

- reboot your device

- wait for a while until it has completed rescanning your files
[Android Apps and Games] szkzs:
Dear Buble Player Developer.

Thank You for your help, now i just like to tell you what exactly experienced on my Android Tablet

with Cover Art, Android scanner and your Pro players in the past and now.

Android Tablet with 4.01 OS

Android scanner scanning for

Folder.jpg

AlbumArtSmall.jpg

Your player showed me the Cover Art ..... no problems!

Because my Android Picture Gallery has a full of Album Cover Art pictures .......

i decided to delete the Cover Art pictures from my Gallery directly, because it is

mixed with my normal, not Audio Album Art pictures.

When i deleted the Audio Cover Arts from the Gallery, the Tablet deleted every

Cover Art pictures..... named "AlbumArtSmall" from every Audio CD Albums.

So, from Android 4 ..... i am not using anymore ..... Cover Arts, named "AlbumArtSmall"

just the regular "Folder.jpg" names. (Your players showed me the pictures good!)

Android 6.01

The Android scanner on my Tablet, NOT scanning anymore for Cover Arts named......

Folder.jpg

folder.jpg

I tryed from Internal and External SD memory with one Test Album, changing the Cover Arts name

respectively then deleting the Media scanner scan folder ...... Deleting the Media scanner Data .... everything,

stopping the service and rebooting the Tablet.

I do that procces after every name change on the Internal and External SD memory.

So, "Folder.jpg" or "folder.jpg" ..... for me on this new Galaxy Tab S2 Tablet, with Android 6.1 not

worked anymore, the scanner ignoring this named pictures.

The scanner now scanning for "AlbumArtSmall.jpg" named Cover Arts pictures, and your player

can show me the Cover Arts from Internal and External SD memory!

The scanner also scanning Cover Art pictures ..... named exactly after the Folder name, and that

pictures goes to the Gallery.

So, right now with Android 6.1, the Android scanner and your player compatible with "one" named

Cover Art pictures ...... "AlbumArtSmall.jpg"

If this named pictures, is in the Audio Album folder, your player not going to have a problems

showing the Cover Art pictures.

Crazy Android system! Every version is different!

This is just an Information for you, the Test results i conducted on my Android 6.1 Tablet.

Now i using the Cover Arts named ...... "AlbumArtSmall.jpg" for a full compatibility with your

player. No problems! And like i said, in this Android version, this named pictures, not anymore

show up in the Android Gallery. So it is Ok. No more Folder.jpg/folder.jpg scanning!

Every Test conducted with External Cover Arts. I don't use Embeded cover Arts with Flac files.

I tested only 4 types of names.

- Folder.jpg

- folder.jpg

- AlbumArtSmall.jpg

- "?Folder Name?".jpg (The real Folder names goes there between the "" )

Android scanner may scan for other names, but that ...... i don't know!

Thank You for your help! szkzs. :)
[Android Apps and Games] dhcp22:
Is possible to sync different playlist controllers?

Ex:I have a playlist on the tablet playing on my render, then i grab my smartphone and i can see and play the same playlist of tablet. Maybe with a double playlist tab (one tab with last local playlist and one with last active remote playlist)

I know playlist is not io renderer so we need a sync between controllers.

Am I too crazy? Lol

Does exist a list of gapless compatibility?

I am interested on denon x3000 avr receiver.

Thanks, beautiful app!!

Android 5

Android 6.1

Twonky server 8.3 on dlink dns320 Nas

Denon avr x3000 receiver
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
- if you mean playing the same Playlist in sync to multiple renderers this not possible.

- if you mean multiple controllers (BubbleUPnP) controlling the same renderer at the same time showing the same

playlist and playback state this is possible with 'BubbleUPnP Server' (see OpenHome)

- if you mean accessing the content of the Playlist tab of your tablet from your phone, this is possible (let me know)

Gapless: there is no definite list of renderers supporting gapless. This is still quite rare. Some Denon renderers support it though but I don't know for this one.

You can try enabling 'Settings > UPnP Tweaks > Gapless control' and see how it goes. If it doesn't work or is buggy, disable it.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It's really difficult to tell without more details. And even with details these kind of issues can be difficult to troubleshoot.

Please tell more about

- Android device, version and ROM, whether rooted or not, using xposed or not

- what are you streaming (codec, bitrate, ...)

- what media server handle the stream. Is it a LAN stream ? Cloud ? etc...

- what is your renderer exactly
[Android Apps and Games] IrishLad:
QNAP Install

Hi All,

Read a few guides and threads to try and get this installed, but cannot get FFMpeg to report it has MP3 support.

I have a TVS471 with QTS 4.2.4 with 32GB RAM and Intel Core i3

I downloaded and manually installed the latest BubbleUPnP OPKG package through the App Center and its installed and running fine.

I then downloaded the FFMpeg Linux files from the same website and copied them to the install directory as BubbleUPnP Server and made them executable, chmod +x ffmpeg and chmod +x ffprobe

Restarted the server (and the NAS) and still the server shows the errors below.

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

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

I have also tried installing Lame and the latest version of FFMpeg into the NAS as its native version is very old, but same result.

From what I have read installing the latest OPKG and manually copying the 2x FFMpeg files and ensuring there executable should work.

Can someone help point me in the right direction to get the transcoding working on this NAS?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] dhcp22:
I can do this if I use a standard playlist created in the server, but I'm interested to play a custom shared playlist from different controllers.

I mean, bubble upnp need to implement a non-standard protocol to make talk different controllers (obviously must be ALL bubble upnp)

This is the "GUI VIEW" of my proposal.

A total of 2 playlist Tab (activated by a settings option)

The new born Tab will list the last active controller playlist.

I understand it will possible just between bubble upnp with this strange protocol enabled.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I don't know how the QNAP package launches BubbleUPnP Server, as I did not make this package.

If you can find the the shell script starting it, use the ffmpegDir option to specify the folder to use to find ffmpeg binaries:

exec "${JAVA}" -Xss256k -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dfile.encoding="UTF-8" -jar BubbleUPnPServerLauncher.jar $* -ffmpegDir /path/to/ffmpeg

Note: line above might not be identical in the QNAP script but at some point it will refer to BubbleUPnPServerLauncher.jar.

or optionally you can add these line before startup:

# to make sure ffmpeg is found and used if present in start directory

export PATH=.:${PATH}
[Android Apps and Games] IrishLad:
Thanks I placed the ffmpeg from there site into the same location as the bubbleupnp server executable, assuming it would find it in the same directory as itself by default.

I will try your steps above and see if I can modify the ffmpegDir option in the hope that might help.

---------- Post added at 07:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:18 PM ----------

I found the file in "/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/BubbleUPnPServer" but the command above does work as exec isn't found.

I tried to open the file in vi, but it isn't text based to manually file the option for ffmpegdir.

Have you any other ideas?

Thanks

---------- Post added at 07:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:25 PM ----------

OK so I tried a few things and still didn't work.

I added the BubbleServerUPnP location to the PATH variable

PATH=/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/BubbleUPnPServer:$PATH

I then checked ffmpeg version by typing its name from the root folder to ensure it was found in the correcty location and it was.

Now reports the version I copied manually to the /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/BubbleUPnPServer as version 2.8.4 which is correct.

before adding the PATH it was using the default version 0.8.

Restarted the server and still it reports the same errors that it cannot transcode!

Anyone any other suggestions and thanks for the ones so far :)

Attchements Added
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No other suggestion other than find the shell script launching BubbleUPnPServer and modifying the 'java -jar BubbleUPnPServer.jar' line and adding the -ffmpegDir option. Since I did not make this package I do not know how BubbleUPnP Server is started exactly, so i cannot give you more detailed instructions.
[Android Apps and Games] IrishLad:
Thanks, anyone else any advice?
[Android Apps and Games] IrishLad:
Still struggling with this, anyone any experience with BubbleUPnP on QNAP?
[Android Apps and Games] Qu@rk:
"Repeat Playlist" - playback mode not restored after power cycle.

Server: BubbleUPNP Server on Win10, Oracle Java 8 (minimserver)

Client: Win10, foobar2000

Control: BubbleUPNP

If I shutdown my system and restart, the playback mode for all renderer will not be restored. Other OpenHome renderer like upmpdcli on Linux restores the last active playback mode correctly.

No big deal, but it would be nice if BubbleUPNP Server would "remember" the playback mode for each renderer.

Thanks for the great software.
[Android Apps and Games] Coinup:
Accessing local content on streambox de net

Hi,

Is it possible to access a hard drive with music content, attached to a pro-ject streambox ds net? the streambox is upnp/dlna capable.

Many Thanks