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[Android Apps and Games] Mike-48:
Aries "Friendly Name"

I heard from Auralic again. They determined that it was a problem at their end, and they will include a friendly name in the next firmware update.

In general (and NOT specific to Auralic, who are more responsive than most), I wish that hardware manufacturers would use developers of respected control points and servers as consultants, to help accomplish QC. I'd imagine that app developers are the ones with the most experience with various products and compatibility issues.

Mike

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A minor feature request: Now Playing has a menu item like "View in Image Viewer" for the album cover. It would be lovely to have this available in the Library (and possibly Playlist) screens as well. The album cover often includes information not available from tags, and the time I most want to see that is when browsing the Library.

Thanks for considering it!

Mike
[Android Apps and Games] 89mclarenstang:
Deafult audio player

i think i may have asked this in the past but couldnt remember the answer...is it possible to choose another application as the audio player as you can do with videos within bubbleupnp? i want to be able to use the playlist and server access within bubbleupnp but output the audio to something like allcast or localcast to be able to send audio to appletv's.

it works fine with video just dont see an option to choose an audio player.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] SilvrDrgn:
Streaming from Box account - no album art

Device = Verizon Droid Maxx, Andriod 4.4.4. Set up v2.0.8.2 to stream from my Box.com account, but not getting any album/cover art. Is that expected, or is that a bug? Recommended cloud service for streaming that does work with album/cover art?
[Android Apps and Games] msssm:
Sry, the error I mentioned says "Generic Browsing Error". It only happens at the Podcast folder, not on other Media. What does that mean?
[Android Apps and Games] zekeblue:
Image viewing

I would love to be able to more easily view all image files in the album's folder. It seems like this feature is provided with "show in image viewer" then next image, or use of slideshow, but I can't get the image to change despite multiple jpg files in the same folder as the playing track.

Am I misunderstanding this feature?

If it isn't provided, is it a reasonable addition?

Running on a Samsung Android Tablet with Minim Server on Synology NAS.

-- I keep images of back covers and artist photos in the folder with each album. This is what I would like to view. I currently switch over to a file viewer to do this, but it is cumbersome --

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] KlinkeSolutions:
BIZBOX - Develop a custom module based in DLNA Server

Hi,

We are looking specialist in DLNA / MIRACAST to develop a custom solution: stream one android mirroring screen to multiples wireless miracast receivers.

Let us know if you are interested.

my email address: gonzalo@klinkesolutions.com
[Android Apps and Games] mmurph87:
support question: language or audio codec track switch

Hello,

Did a google search and forum search for this issue came up empty handed.

I am attempting to watch a movie with multiple audio tracks for which the primary is Spanish AAC. Would like to have the player to tell Chromecast to select this track to play. Currently I can complete this function through the renderer I am using, mx player, when opened with its frontend, but because it does not support chromecast i cannot use it while playing in English. Was wondering if this track switching is possible with the bubble upnp app.

When I play through bubble upnp it casts to Chromecast but the actual player's options are limited (seemingly) compared to mx player. Iwould like to seek through MX player and use some of the features that it makes possible; I am a novice and did not know if that was already supported because i am already using mx player as the local renderer. Really, this is only because I can see on my nexus 7 as I smooth scan on the MX player an image displayed of where I have seeked, whereas in bubble upnp no image is displayed on my nexus when I scan.

Did not know if I needed to setup server for this since the mkv is stored locally on the tablet and no transcoding is being performed since the multicodec audio already exists as part of the file.

Thank you for any assistance one may provide
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
To be able to choose an audio track in videos containing multiple audio tracks, you need to install BubbleUPnP Server. Then on the Now Playing screen you will have a new icon letting you choose the audio track,shortly after initiating playback of the video.

Refer to the Chromecast documenation in Settings > About/Help >Tips for more details.

Selecting an audio track will just have BubbleUPnP Server remux the video (no transcode) if the codec is supported by the Chromecast.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Looks like that magic track trigger populating the podcast list. That's why you have to hit it first. It is entirely media server dependent.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
When browsing a cloud folder that supposedly contain a music album folder, the following conditions must be met for the app to associate album art to all tracks:

- the app must infers that the folder is a music album (vs say, a random collection of tracks). It infers it is a music album if each filename starts with a tracknumber: 1 - track 1..., 2 - track 2, ... (the separator between tracknumer and the rest of the title can be characters "-", " ", ".", "_". Track number can have leading zeroes: 01, 02, ...)

- an image file must be present in the folder. Folder.jpg is preferred over other filenames
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No possible with audio as it is not possible to send more than 1 track at a time to an external app.
[Android Apps and Games] SilvrDrgn:
All my album/cover art is embedded in my MP3s. This would require renaming all my files and having extra jpg files laying around that I just don't need. So, I assume that means the app won't get the album/cover art embedded within the MP3 files themselves if they reside on cloud services. Correct? Can it do that from any of the cloud services you support? It would be very nice if it would. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] kubucheskie:
D-Pad control suggestions

Hi again. I am missing BUpnp terribly on my android TV box per my last comment about dpad control. I have now had time to look at it more closely and I humbly submit these suggestions for a future update. I hope you find them helpful. I've tried to keep it simple but I admit I have no idea how difficult any of this would be to implement (parentheses contains comments only).

1. Global - Disable dpad focus on the vertical NP/PL/Library tab at top of left menu at all times (this focus is redundant and just complicates things). Keep the navigation indicator (yellow indicator bar, bold text) - that is great.

2. Left menu - Always allow free vertical focus shift between "Renderer/Lib/Settings/Exit" on left menu and up to top menu items on "up" from renderer - remove focus on separators

3. Now Playing - Ensure focus always lands on media controls when NP opens (as it is, focus lands on progress bar at times and results in unintentional music skips). Force user to press "up" to access progress bar, then allow access to menu button top right from there. Show focus on progress bar to avoid unintentional music skips.

ALTERNATIVELY - let NP focus land on track title (nonfunctional) and force user to press "down" to access now playing functions.

4. Playlist/Library - When a track is highlighted, let the remote control menu button open the "track menu" dialogue rather then the app menu (top right). (This will force user to scroll up through open list to access the app menu, but this seems a fair trade off for the added functionality).

More than happy to discuss further/test if i can help at all. Thanks again!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
After checking, embedded cover is extracted and used when using Dropbox (if folder is infrerred to contain an album as described above). I need to update other cloud services to do the same thing.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I tried several times to improve D-PAD handling but failed. Android has default rules to handle input focus (which are not always the best) and overriding it is not easy. Testing is a chore as it must be done in the emulator. I will look at it again taking into account your suggestion but no promise I can fix anything.
[Android Apps and Games] joalin:
Hi, I'm a big fan of bubbleupnp, it's the only app of many that I got to work with streaming TV portal to chromecast with subtitles. I noticed it seems to be native streaming, if that's the right expression, since I can turn my phone off after initiating the stream. I'm just curious how it can work? I'm aware that just the mp4 stream is no problem since the chromecast streams directly from the server, but how can the subtitles be embedded? If somebody could explain I'd be really grateful.
[Android Apps and Games] denza27:
Great app. Unfortunately without samba network player ability. Why?
[Android Apps and Games] reS28raM:
Does that works with FLAC files too? On my wifi lan I only get images from MP3, but most of my files are FLAC, can you please add support to them when you have time, nowadays the headers (metadata) must be quite standard

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Android Apps and Games] zekeblue:
I am not trying to view jpgs from the cloud, only from my NAS - same folder as the album. I have only been able to view the cover. Does all of the jpg art (eg, cover, back, photos) have to be embedded in the audio files or can they be jpgs in the same folder in order to view in BubbleUPnP's image viewer?

Still trying to figure this out. (my naming and folder structure does follow the above guidelines - folder.jpg is cover embedded in audio file as well as jpg in folder, other graphic files such as back.jpg, notes.jpg, etc. only in folder - not embedded. All audio files are flac).
[Android Apps and Games] reS28raM:
As I said in the post above yours the app doesn't seems to read FLAC headers, all the covers are embedded into my FLAC files but I can't get them displayed. I have one NAS and two mediaservers at home, all of them with different softwares, I don't get any images displayed when playing FLACs. The covers are also in the root of any albums but they are named "albumart.jpg" (to support Android) not "Folder.jpg" (to support Windows), today I'll investigate about it, I need to rebuild all the indexes I guess to see the change effective. Dunno if I'll have the time to do that today.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Android Apps and Games] Riekr:
Flac covers are read correctly but sometimes the android media library gets screwed with bubbleupnp. There's a tool on play store to fix media library errors, I used it successfully once but can't remember the name. Anyway I think there is a problem with bubbleupnp because it started happening only when I switched to this app.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] reS28raM:
Quite possible, media database is always been one of the leakest points in Android. To reset the database, if that happens again to you, you must go to Settings/App/All and delete the data of the system app "Media Storage" (com.android.providers.media), on next reboot the database will rebuild from scratch - this is the right way to do that (android way lol).

Now I must see why I cannot get cover images even on my Nexus 5... I'll try to rename them Folder.jpg as said.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Android Apps and Games] Riekr:
i just did it but now i see wrong album art! :cyclops:

anyway, i don't have any .jpg in album folders, will try the aforementioned app to check if it solves the problem
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Because SMB is inefficient vs UPnP/DLNA media servers (it requires proxying).

If you still want to do SMB, you can do it using ES File Explorer to send SMB stored videos to BubbleUPnP.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes, embedded album art extraction works for FLAC too (currently only for Dropbox and the Filesystem folders) and assuming the folder is inferred to contain an album as described in a previous post).

NOTE: if you refer to a media server other than the local media server, then the above does not apply and it is the entire responsability of the remote media server to handle album art (whether Folder.jpg or embedded) and return an URL pointing to it to the app. Most media server do not supported extracting emebedded album art unless you use an advance media server dedicated to music: MinimServer, Asset UPnP, Jamcast, ...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That's not true: BubbleUPnP cannot screw the Android media library as it only reads from it to populate the Music, Video and Images folder hierarchies of the local media server.

However the Android media library can get screwed from time to time with invalid entries.
[Android Apps and Games] Riekr:
that's what i think too but i started having problems when using only bubbleupnp (no other music app active or installed on the device) so my guess is that google play music or others either do something to update the media library or don't use it at all (wich would be funny since google play music is from google...).

UPDATE: i installed play music to double check what i said, while in bubbleupnp i only see some wrong (swapped) album art on play music most are missing. I cleaned media storage data again and rebooted but i've got the same result.

It seems that play music does not use media library but still have issues with album arts :P

ps: prior to bubbleupnp i was using apollo or play music but i was having folder.jpg in album folder
[Android Apps and Games] aviv0099:
Greate app
[Android Apps and Games] reS28raM:
I renamed covers to Folders.jpg and it works now! As to remote media servers I suspected something like that, I'll try the ones you cite until I find something satisfactory. Thank you so much.

Yep!

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Android Apps and Games] zekeblue:
I will experiment to see if I can figure out how it works. As said, I am trying to view multiple jpg files in the same folder with their albums from a NAS with MinimServer. All audio files are flac. Bubble is running on an android tablet and playing on separate renderer in my home audio system.

I now know that Minim is primarily responsible for how the artwork is served. I don't know where the Bubble "view in image viewer" is drawing from: folder or embedded. So I modified a couple of folders (albums) to test. One has no embeded artwork and has folder.jpg and back.jpg in the folder. The other has the front cover and back cover art embedded with no jpg files in the folder. I will test it when Minim has indexed the changes.

Some hint about this would be welcome, however! ;) I don't know what to expect as to the possibility of viewing multiple graphics files in Bubble image viewer. It must be there since it has a slideshow feature. If it is supposed to be, where am I going wrong? I can only think of three possibilities: One is that all viewed files have to be embedded (I'll find out if this works shortly), or there is some limitation with flac files, or some limitation/something I'm doing wrong with Minim.

Edit: Results didn't help. Folder One - album of flac files with nothing embedded and folder.jpg, back.jpg in the album folder. Folder Two - album of flac files with front cover and back cover both embeded and no graphics files in folder. In both cases Bubble showed the front cover as album art and the back cover wasn't viewable with the image viewer (or any other method that I could find).

Should it be possible, or is this correct behavior?
[Android Apps and Games] Dimman_S:
Bubbleupnp to display Label/Publisher

Hello bubbleguuum, first of i wanna thank you for this amazing app. I have bought the llicenced bubbleupnp and i can tell you i can not do without this app Kudos.:good: I control my music which is stored on Synology DS412+ on minimserver,Anyway I have a question but i don't know if this issue is related to minimserver or bubbleupnp control point. When i tab a "Now Playing" song on the bubbleupnp i can see the song tags / information

Title

Album

Artist

Albumartist

Composer

Condructor

Track #

Duration

Year

Genre

.but it does not display "Label"/"Publisher" even though i have tagged almost all my library with Mp3tag AND dbpoweramp (mp3 and flac) even tagged Label/Publisher.

I posted that on minimserver forum as well and Simon said will look into it but to be sure is good to post here as well and ask whether BubbleUPnP would display publisher information if the server sends it using the dc : publisher XML tag.

Thanks in advance

Reagards Dimman_S
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The only way to see multiple album art images for a single album is if a media server offers a way to browse folders by filesystem structure, listing both music files and images. MinimServer has the [folder view] hierarchy that could fit this description, except it will not list images in a filesystem folder (because it considers it as non-music and not relevant for browsing).

For album folders whose content is populated from tags (eg non filesystem based folders), media servers usually associate a single album art image to a track, and even if that wasn't the case (very hypothetic), BubbleUPNP does not support multiple album art per track (for display purpose).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I added support for dc:publisher for the next version. It will be displayed in the metadata dialog. Now you need a Media Server that populates this value (MinimServer doesn't currently).
[Android Apps and Games] zekeblue:
Thanks for the reply and confirmation. So, if I understand correctly, I will not accomplish this with finding and changing to server software that will support it. And I could tell (if not obvious in listed features) if I can see the image files in the folder view from within BubbleUPnP.

I'll file this away now that I understand it more. Don't want to change server software with everything running very stable.

Still curious why BubbleUPnP shows that option for slideshow and next image when viewing album cover in the viewer. Maybe this is due to sharing this feature with the regular photo viewing function.

But I can put it to rest now!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You could ask on the MinimServer forum, to add the ability to list images in the [folder view] hierarchy. Make sure to explain precisely the use case.

That's just an oversight as slideshow controls are not needed when there is a single image.
[Android Apps and Games] zekeblue:
I will make that suggestion on the Minim forum.

Thanks again.........
[Android Apps and Games] alexinc:
after upgrading my tv and ht to the latest of samsungs series i'm still wondering if someday bubbleupnp may send complete playlist to samsung renderer at once, not each single track like i'm able when handing over a playlist to my android stick which i could abandon then. ;) no matter if i send to samsung using foobar+bubbleupnp or bubbleupnp as control point on smart phone between nas and samsung. or am i missing a setting?
[Android Apps and Games] bigmem:
Hi, I can stream Showbox and any other web based media to my chromecast no problem but when I stream to my dlna tv a sony bravia it stops at 29min and 24 sec and the tv says "playback not available". It happens with all file formats. I tried to gather a log but the txt file isn't created in the location you state on the first page. I have the latest google play version of the app and am using a stock rom nexus 5. I can't understand why it stops every time at the same time frame on every file.

Please help. This wasn't a problem on older versions of bubbleupnp. It started since the last update, wondering if it has anything to do with my licence not being verified?
[Android Apps and Games] tomurbanowicz:
Slideshow below 5 sec

How to set slideshow below 5 sec? 5 sec is sometimes to long for slideshow.
[Android Apps and Games] ramilarta:
Perchasing license

Hi there,

W'd u plz up this app on samsung app store? We from IRAN, cann't perchase license from google play!

Thanx in advanced.
[Android Apps and Games] Disrupthor:
Hello, I'm having a little problem with the app. When I play my music I can only hear 1 full track, by the change to a new one or a little after the app most times closes hás for others it just stops playback.

EDIT: Well it looks like it is kinda ROM related has my ROM keeps killing the app even when I pass it to system app. Is it possible to implement like other player a priority setting so it can be set to "unkillable" by Android?
[Android Apps and Games] rancatoco:
Deleted
[Android Apps and Games] mrbo:
Any chance that the local media server in the app can implement the new DocumentProvider API for choosing files to play? This could enable selecting files stored on a LAN. (for example using the "LAN document Provider" app in the play store)

My use case for this is that I have a small travel router that can also act as a NAS. If I plug in a 64GB USB thumb drive with a music library on it, this would allow me to easily play it with BubbleUPnP.
[Android Apps and Games] beebock:
End of song replays prior to going to next in list

Hi,

*added more details and I believe I have isolated the issue*

I have been using this program for years and I love it. I have noticed recently that when I have a song in my queue (remote or local, no difference) it arrives to the end of the song and before going to the next, it hesitates for 2 seconds, then plays the last 5 seconds of the song before moving onto the next one.

I have also noticed a considerable delay in the next song coming through (remote or local). In the case of remote it often 'times out' or gives up.

I have tested the files individually with other player on the phone and none of them of do this.

I have noticed that when i look at the progress bar it physically moves backwards and the remaining time of the song does to 5 seconds. The player then sits at 1 second left for a while prior to moving onto the next track.

another observation, this seems to be with FLAC files only (only test FLAC and MP3). Following tests have been done with local files, but I think the issue will be there with remote as it seems to be a render issue.

FLAC --> MP3 problem

MP3 --> FLAC no problem

MP3 --> MP3 no problem

FLAC --> FLAC problem

Skipping to the last 5 seconds of a FLAC file will crash the application (and hang the phone in some cases).

Any help appreciated, I'm not sure about the how and whys of this but I can reproduce at will. What do you need from me to help with this?

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] tomurbanowicz:
Any chance for that? :)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You didn't mention it but I suppose this is for local playback ?

It's possible there's an issue with the FLAC decoder. Not all devices have the same decoder: for example Samsung has its own and some versions have been problematic.

What is your Android device / Android version / ROM ?

Here's a few things to try (independently):

- if it is enabled, disable Settings > Local Renderer > Gapless playback

- enable Settings > Local Renderer > Force own FLAC decoder. This will bypass the Android FLAC decoder, possibly fixing issues with it. Note that the "own FLAC decoder" is not gapless
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No immediate plan for this although it is not excluded.

Also this DocumentProvider API seems limited to opening single files which makes it impractical for music as you don't want to add files one by one.

It could be useful for videos though.

If you want to access your NAS with SMB, you can send items to BubbleUPnP browsing with ES FIle Explorer (or any other app able to access SMB shares and send to another app). Again, this is only mostly useful for videos.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You can't set a duration below 5s because BubbleUPnP has no way to know when a renderer has finished loading the current image, and that's problematic with super low durations.