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[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes it plays flac files. There will be gapless support in the next version of the app but it will require Android 4.1+

Yes this is the content description text of the thumbnail image associated to eah item on the left. Should I remove this content description ?

Yes there are shuffle and repeat image toggles to the left and the right.

I will add content descriptions for them. Not sure how to handle the shuffle toggle has it actually has three states: Shuffle off - Shuffle Playlist - Shuffle Library. Should the content description be updated to reflect what would pressing the toggle do, or describe what is the current state ?

Let me know if you find other UI areas confusing of missing useful descriptions.
[Android Apps and Games] pvdeejay:
Yeah that sounds fine, I am using SGS2 running CM-10 so I might be able to make some good use of it as it becomes available.

I have got flac files playing directly on android using bubble upnp. I had to reset my foo_upnp config and it autogenerated bubble upnp streaming profile.

Still if a mp3 or flac compilation is a single file with another cue sheet file then it displays as individual tracks as defined in the cue sheet fhile when browsing the library using bubble upnp on android. That looks fine however while playing these individual tracks they are decoded to pcm by the foo_upnp. Is there a setting I should set in order to playback these directly without decoding? or this is not possible?

Currently I am not entirelly sure if removing it is enough or it would be less verbose when you assign an empty string into it. We need to look it up in the sdk reference or experiment if you dont mind.

In case of shuffle it would indeed be nice to update the content description with the current state rather than state it will toggle to upon pressing. Saying shuffle playlist, shuffle library etc sounds fine to me. Actually I think you can use the same text displayed in toast notifications. Since repeat has only two states you can just set the content description to repeat to make it simpler and less verbose. The state can be understood from the checkbox state already.

I really cant say how it looks like and how it is implemented but currently Talkback reads two unlabelled checkboxes to me. So actually I am not sure what view to set content description on.

Thanks for the positive reply. I am looking forward to future versions
[Android Apps and Games] pmdex:
Photos slideshow on remote media renderer (XBMC)

Hi,

I tried various UPnP apps on my Android tablet, and BubbleUPnP is by far the best one, so thank you very much.

There's one thing that I couldn't get to work though, and that is performing a slideshow on a remote XBMC media renderer.

I have BubbleUPnP 1.5.4 (licensed) on an Android 4.0.3 tablet and XBMC 11.0 (Eden) on MacOSX Snow Leopard. For now I use Plex Media Server (PMS) as DLNA server running on the same MacOSX machine.

I can browse the photos from PMS with BubbleUPnP fine and can also display single photos on the remote XBMC media renderer. However XBMC will never advance to the next photo in the playlist. I tried both settings of "Transfer Playback" to no avail. FWIW, slideshows are properly played when using the local media renderer of BubbleUPnP.

Here's what XBMC logs: View attachment XBMC-Slideshow.txt

AFAICS XBMC only ever receives a single file to open, so no wonder it never advances to the next image.

The corresponding BubbleUPnP log is this:

View attachment BubbleUPnP-XBMC-Slideshow.txt

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] AleksandrSBS:
Exclude folders from media searching

Hey!

Using BubbleUPnP on my Android phone. Is there a way to exclude specific folders from being scanned for media files? I'd like to clear local media library from ring-tones and app sounds. Tried to search this thread for an answer, but didn't find something similar to my question.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
CM10 runs Jelly bean so upcoming gapless support will work with it.

foo_upnp forces tracks with subsong index (eg FLAC + CUE) to be streamed as PCM. There is no other way.

It is the same. I will just remove the thumbnail content description since it is not very useful anyway.

Ok
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The app has no mode to run a slideshow to an external renderer (unlike to the local renderer).

To see images on an external renderer, you add images to the playlist tab, then control playback from the Now Playing screen (or Playlist tab). On the Now Playing tab, you use next and prev button to navigate between images (after hitting play).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
On your SD card, just create an empty file named .nomedia in the directories you want to be excluded by the Android Media Scanner.
[Android Apps and Games] pmdex:
What a pity. Would it be possible to add that for a future version? My use case is this:

I have a stand for the tablet and sometimes use it as a picture frame, doing a slideshow. Once in a while it happens that people want to see the images in big on the TV. I would only have to turn on the TV (which is connected to the Mac, running XBMC) and tell BubbleUPnP to continue rendering the slideshow on the remote media renderer.

Thanks,

PM
[Android Apps and Games] alexgogan:
Hi

Just wondering, I have a registered version and trying to get to see all my media on my nas drive, but it only displays three folders in the movies directory and not my tv or home videos.

Have the software scanning the drive directly on local network and then set up the bubble software as well.

Get the same issue on this device and my xperia s which I use as a pmp

Many thanks
[Android Apps and Games] criticalfungus:
Hi,

bubbleguuum, sorry to drag this up from the depths, you replied via PM to locka99 on this back in June (Quotes below)

I'm suffering the same problem with my LY-F1 clone running the same Seby-Mod (and later versions of it), I was wondering if you could help me out also.

Thanks in advance

Criticalfungus

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[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Yes, it is in the todo list.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There's some el cheapo unbranded ICS tablet for which the license will not work as it cannot communicate with the Google Play app for validation. The cause is unclear but certainly has to do with how Google Play was installed on these devices. This never happen with branded tablets (Samsung, Sony, etc). It doesn't happen with all el cheapo tablets either.

There's no fix at this time and all I can do is offer you a refund if you wish.
[Android Apps and Games] krutschcom:
Say YES to gapless FLAC!

Y-E-E-S-S-S !!!!!

BTW, is there a way to see bit depth and sample rate during playback with the BubbleUPnP local renderer?

I am just curious what is happening with hi-rez tracks when playing back on my Nexus S 4G (rooted w/ Voodoo Sound), which sounds really, really sweet (well, after the initial network activity to start streaming / caching the track - the Nexus S suffers from EMI from the network stack).

Keep up the unbelievably great work!
[Android Apps and Games] Richard Steinert:
Moveable playlist items, standard library folder

Hi,

I have two suggestions which would be cool to have in a previous bubble version:

1st is the ability to move items in the playlist up and down by dragging them. Right now there is no possibility to reorder the playlist which would be nice. Look at the mobile winamp player which has this build in.

2nd I want to have a standard folder for each library. So the local media server (on my nexus) shows music first. If I want pictures I just go backwards. But when I go to my NAS media server I see movies first and so on...

Else the software is just great! Hopefully you guys keep on improving it
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
Hi, you can easily reorder a playlist by dragging the item's thumbnails up and down. Move a thumbnail to the right to remove the item.
[Android Apps and Games] criticalfungus:
Thank you for the reply, el cheapo is the word with this tablet its one of the 16GB m009s rtb ultimate tablets that Wendy Lou was selling off Amazon (just so you have the information should anyone else ask). I think it is the market place as it's happening with other paid for apps also. Full market but not quite fully functional it would seem :) think I'll switch this to Amazon marketplace or something similar

Thanks for the offer but I'll keep the license, this won't be my last Android device and I'm certain to want to use your great app on it too.
[Android Apps and Games] keithspg:
I recently tried this app again. Is there plans for showing the 'now playing' info for internet streamed radio? I have tried it with this stream: Streamed station and I get "Unknown Artist, Unknown album" when it is playing on a separate renderer. It will not play this stream locally. Is this due to me needing a license?

Regards,

Keith
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
Ran into a situation which I think BubbleUPnP could have handled better.

I started streaming and finished caching a track while on Wifi. Several minutes later (with the Wifi network out of range) I tried to replay the track (using your long-press Play (Stop) -> Play suggestion) but it seems that the track had to be re-streamed. I would suggest that BubbleUPnP keep the current track in memory even after you hit Stop, such that in case you do hit Play again you can play it instantly.

Log is attached.
[Android Apps and Games] vendeatha:
i recently bought this app and has been working great when connected via LAN. however, when i try to play the videos on my S3 using 4g/3G connection it says Error: cannot play this video. It works fine on LAN just not on 4G connections. Any idea why and how to fix this?
[Android Apps and Games] mig235:
1 Issue --> music Sony BDV N790W Action Play failed (code: 501)

hey there first of all, I like to say that i love this app in pro version and i have testetd others but it is the easiest way to manage different media servers and renderers.

My setup is Windows 7 Professional running WMP12 with Serviio Media Server playing over DLNA to Sony Entertainment BDV-N790W and Sony KDL 40HX855. My phone is a Sony Xperia arc (L15i) with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich with Root Access:

Bubble UPNP erratically fails to play the next file on queue on the playlist if the phone uses the renderer BDV-N790W (3D BlueRay Player). if the phone usese the renderer KDL -40HX855 (TV) it works without a problem.

If i want to play the next song i have too take the phone and choose it. The error Message is "Action Play failed (code: 501)". I reseted all settings but still the same problem.

I Hope you have an idea how to fix this problem.

greets and thanks

mig235
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
Same issue again. This time I let BubbleUPnP buffer the whole track over Wifi, then after being out of Wifi range I tried to unpause the track. BubbleUPnP decided it needed to start streaming/buffering the track from the beginning.

..and in the same launch, this issue reared its head again (notice the current time compared to the duration):

Log of both issues attached.
[Android Apps and Games] 2mato:
excellent app, works great with Samsung Galaxy.:D
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This is expected if the connection type change. It is impossible to seamlessly continue streaming when connection changes from WiFi to mobile or vice versa.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There's a possible fix in the upcoming version that may work for Sony devices, retrying a command on a 501 error (which is a generic error code when the renderer refuses a command).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Assuming you use BubbleUPNP Server and that it supports video transcoding:

- make sure to configure video transcoding in Settings > Network and settings (start with 240p)

- use MX Player as the video player
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
There's no support for dynamic track titles in Internet streams. For that matter, UPnP doesn't make it possible for a renderer to notify the controller of dynamic track tiles in such stream (although some renderers may display them on their LCD screens).
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
Even when the track was fully buffered? Certainly doesn't sound impossible.
[Android Apps and Games] vendeatha:
Thanks bubbleguuum it worked! :) i tried replying to your email by the way but it comes back undeliverable coz it says im spamming you. But its all fixed now! One happy customer here
[Android Apps and Games] mkocustos:
Play Song on two renderes in parallel & German Translation

I like the app very much, however there are two points that should be improved:

- I would like to be able to activate two renderers at the same time. I'm not sure whether this is possible with the upnp/dlna-protocol, but Sony offers something similar for their speakers and they promise that the songs are played synchronously.

- There is no german translation for the android app. I'm volunteering to help.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
UPnP doesn't allow to have several renderers play perfectly synced: you'll get anything between 0-5s lag. Even 500ms is awful if you have 2 renderers in separate rooms as it produce an annoying echo effect.

It is very well possible Sony use proprietary extension to play in sync.

I do not plan for translations as there are way too many strings to translate, and I add new strings all the time. Thanks for the offer though.
[Android Apps and Games] pvdeejay:
I have already repried on this but I noticed something I havent posted yet.

The images with such a content description are also used on the device screen. Not all renderers do have word renderer in their name and not all media servers have something that would indicate they are media servers. Would it be possible to make an exception for this screen and describe the images depending on what a device image is illustrating?

Also a question.

I am considering buying one of those cheap usb pendrive sized pseudo pcs running android so I can attach this into my TV via HDMI.

Can you recommend me a device which can run most latest version of android preferably 4.1 or acceptably 4.0, will allow hooking external usb HDD and will play audio as well as video files over HDMI? And most importantly will run this app?

My use case is that I will keep the device connected to charger all the time, I would like to use it as a media server and player which I can control with my other android devices and foobar 2000 as control points.

I need to use sound device of a phone or of a computer for synthesis speech while I am controlling it since I am blind. For playing music and movies it is disturbing my relatives who are not relying on such features.

If such setup will work I may get an ability to create playlists and control the playback remotelly. Of course for maintenance I will still have possibility to use android accessibility apps on the device and the rest of my family might be able to use the device locally with keyboard or a mouse connected.

Does this make sense? Would anyone have some recommendations?

Edit: For example what about MK808 Dual Core Rockchip 3066 Android Mini PC 4.1 Jelly Bean Android 1GB DDR3 RAM
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Done

This looks good to me. Prefer something that runs 4.1 like this one.
[Android Apps and Games] fham:
Beware that these USB Sticks w/Android have minimal internal HD space which could cause issues with app downloads. I bought one with supposedly solid specs:

1.2 GHz Cortex Dual-Core A9 processor

Android 4.0

WiFi b/g/n

512 MB Internal Memory

4 GB Nand

1080p HDMI output

4 USB ports

Memory Card Slot: Takes upto 32 GB

Supposed to support Flash

Massive fail. Flash didn't work. Extremely laggy processor. Not optimized for large TV's. Wouldn't power on after 3 days.

This unit you mention looks solid and the fact that they have a presence in the US makes a huge difference. Try getting a PayPal refund from an overseas outfit even when they indicate that their return address is stateside.
[Android Apps and Games] Snowknight26:
Would you be able to have BubbleUPnP create a new log file each time instead of overwriting the old one? I had BubbleUPnP crash and restart on me but since it overwrote the previous log I have no idea why it happened.
[Android Apps and Games] licht77:
Bubbleguuum - wonderful app!

Iam running your server too and enjoy dnla access to my homeserver whn on-the-go.... fantastic!

One thing... do you see any chance to make a windows client authenticate remotely on your server?
[Android Apps and Games] letrouble:
reminds me of ArkMC (DLNA app)
[Android Apps and Games] Briain:
Hello

Sorry for taking so long to respond (I am moving house and things are pretty hectic).

Thank you for the responses and explanations to my questions (ref: original post and your response).

I have just installed MinimServer 0.61 and repeated my tests on the Marvell based Qnap NAS. Curiously, it has started to cache again, but Songbook Lite is the only CP that does enable it to cache, whereas Kinsky for iPad and Kinsky Desktop (both the Cara and current Davaar versions) don't create any cached images.

All the best

Bri
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No plan for that at the moment.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You can access music only with foobar2000 + foo_upnp as client (see BubbleUPnP Server documentation for details).
[Android Apps and Games] alexgogan:
Hi

Just wondering did you get a chance to look at is query sorry for the hounding.

Regards

Alex
[Android Apps and Games] bsmith1051:
Can I make another suggestion? I would like to see a 'kiosk' mode, i.e., where people couldn't accidentally exit the program or access (much less change) the Devices or Configuration. I would also like it to 'lock' onto the current renderer so that it doesn't accidentally switch between my 2 available DLNA targets.
[Android Apps and Games] Oliviander:
Bubble UPNP as a "Locked" Remote Control

Yes that would be great,

actually my home is connected to a large network,

where actually several PCs pop up as a mediaservers but have no use.

It would be great one could lock onto the real musicservers .

On the other hand It is not nice to accidently awake my wifes speakers in

her bedroom while she is sleeping with the living room control.

I would imagine using an old phones as a remotecontrol

locked on one server and on one renderer permanently and only

with no chance of mismatch.
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
Hi, I also think that this is a good idea. It is often the case that devices appear which you certainly don't want to select (e.g. when you proxy a server, you usually don't want to select the regular one). There is already the option to show OpenHome renderers only to hide the corresponding regular renderer. The more general approach would be to have the possibility to hide/unhide each device (maybe in the context menu) and just one option in the settings menu 'Show hidden devices'.

About exiting: accidently exiting the app is already quite unlikely as you have to enter the settings menu first and then press exit.

---------- Post added at 12:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:00 PM ----------

Hi, this is most likely an issue of your media server software and I fear there is nothing BubbleUPnP can do about it. Which server are you using?
[Android Apps and Games] Briain:
Hi bubbleguuum

I've just enabled logging (by ticking 'Enable media access log file') and though the log file was created, when I run Kinsky Desktop or Kinsky iPad, it still doesn't generate cached images and the access_log.txt has no entries (it's completely empty). I tried restarting the server and repeating the test, but still the log has no entries.

Oddly, browsing with Songbook Lite does generate cached images (though the log file still isn't populated) and I'm wondering if the issue could be that Kinsky Desktop (and Kinsky iPad) are not requesting thumbnails (though I'm pretty sure that they did when I first tried it, and I'm sure Linn would have built them to follow the specification to the letter). Have you tried it with Kinsky Desktop and had it caching on your own system (if not, I guess I'd better ask Linn what Kinsky is requesting).

Any thoughts on what I should try to progress this? It does work beautifully with Songbook Lite, but it would be great to get it working with Kinsky.

All the best,

Bri

(ref: original post and your response).
[Android Apps and Games] winxi:
Hi Briain, the log-files you're searching for are BubbleUPnPServer.log.0 and BubbleUPnPServer.log.1

These are rotated log-files and BubbleUPnPServer.log.0 contains the most recent log.
[Android Apps and Games] janism74:
Nice application! I'd like to suggest another feature while browsing images. I can share the image while it's opened, but I can't download or add it to the playlist. I have to close the preview mode and go to the list mode to do it. Download or add to a playlist feature when the image is opened, would be greatly appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] Briain:
Hi

Thanks for that; I have just looked in both the Bubble installation directory and in /tmp, but I don't see the above files anywhere. To be double sure, I tried a 'find -name BubbleUPnPServer*' and it showed 10 files containing BubbleUPnPServer, but not the above log files.

I also tried to capture both Kinsky (iPad version) and Songbook Lite (again on the iPad) using WireShark to see if they looked different from each other. I'm not a data expert (in any way at all) but to me, it looks like both are referring to the same image link, so I'm really puzzled as to why one results in Bubble building a cache and the other doesn't. I've only attached the top parts of the capture (the first couple of albums) to keep the size down.

As I mentioned, I'm not expert in this area, so please excuse me if I've assumed incorrectly and thus attached the wrong capture information.

Bri
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I made the test with Kinsky and for an album it always requests the full cover URL instead of the thumbnail URL. That explains why you do not see any thumbnail generated by BubbleUPnP Server with Kinksy requests:

<upnp:albumArtURI>http://192.168.1.14:58050/stream/image/7ea84ac633dc28cc6b8a2f9bdd30f1a8</upnp:albumArtURI>
<upnp:albumArtURI dlna:profileID="PNG_TN">http://192.168.1.14:58050/stream/image/7ea84ac633dc28cc6b8a2f9bdd30f1a8?w=160</upnp:albumArtURI>

Kinsky always requests the first URL (full cover) instead of the second URL (thumbnail URL, added by the proxy).

Songbook on the other hand requests the thumbnail URL when appropriate. Android BubbleUPnP/BubbleDS do the same.
[Android Apps and Games] Briain:
Hi bubbleguuum

Thank you very much indeed for checking that for me. I'll email Linn and make them aware of this series of posts.

All the best

Bri
[Android Apps and Games] Jeho:
For the 501 Issue with the Sony Players: I found out that the error will not occure if I just press next track right at the end of the current track. So, a workaround might be just to skip to the next track at the end of the current one. There wouldn't be any time delay and maybe it's easier to implement... I would volunteer to test ;)