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[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=5329633]paulgj[/MENTION]

I could reproduce this issue. The cause is that MinimDLNA always send 160x160 thumbnails. It cannot be configured to send something higher res.

There is a fork of MiniDLNA that allows it, but it is not standard.

I really recommend you switch to a more capable and better maintained media server: MinimServer (http://minimserver.com).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=849790]wudangnic[/MENTION]

Can you describe what is the issue playing TIDAL to Samsung TV ? This log does not make it obvious...
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=2915816]friedflow[/MENTION]

Unfortunately the "text-stroke" CSS property cannot be use to style ::cue elements used for styling subtitles.

::cue only supports only a few properties, including text-shadow currently used by the BubbleUPnP receiver.
[Android Apps and Games] paulgj:
Thank you for checking. I am also running MinimServer now to compare functionality.
[Android Apps and Games] romasema:
Unsubscribing from betas. How?

Dzień Dobry Wszystkim, Hi All, I'm quite happy user of BubbleUPnP and in my opinion this "state of mind" won't change in near future;) In other words - Bubble is wonderful, but....

some time ago I have subscribed to beta tests. How to unsubscribe??

TIA
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Start the Play Store app, go to "My Apps & Games", go to the BETA tab, tap on BubbleUPnP and you have a "LEAVE" button at the end of the page to leave the beta.
[Android Apps and Games] sskirch:
Unlicensing!

I've had a license for the Android app for years now. It's my go-to app for all UPnP. I'm actually a pretty heavy user of BubbleUPnP.

But recently, the app had taken to losing its licensing. The ads come back and I lose all the paid features. Only an uninstall and reinstall fixes it.

Very frustrating.

Help!
[Android Apps and Games] IrishLad:
Hi thanks for the update.

Doing your steps will update the FFMpeg of the QNAp system itself, I preferred to leave these unchanged as it broke the native transcoding from the Video App using CodePlex, if you don't use these it should be fine :)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Do you have a Samsung device ? And if so is it running Android 6 or 7 ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP 2.8.9 published to Google Play.

Changelog

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[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
My guess is that it was caused by an upgrade of the OpenJDK for which this is reported as a bug.

The workaround is to install the Oracle JRE instead. To do so:

- go tot the Synlogy Web UI

- go into the main menu (top left icon)

- click Java 8

- follow instructions and install Java 8 SE Upgrade 131

- if all goes well after install you should have

$java -version

java version "1.8.0_131"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

- then reboot the NAS so BubbleUPnP Server is restarted with this new version of Java
[Android Apps and Games] KeithClarke:
First track missing

Can anyone please help a newbie? I have BubbleUpnp on a Samsung Galaxy S5 playing music from a WD My Cloud drive through a Pioneer music server. All works marvellously, except that on some of my albums the first track does not show up in BubbleUpnp. It's obviously me that's dodgy rather than the app, as a different one had the same oddity. What can I do to my library to get those missing first tracks showing?
[Android Apps and Games] fyah_:
it worked thanks a lot !
[Android Apps and Games] taimei:
BubbleUPnP Server on Android down-convert from 24bit to 16bit

Dear, bubbleguuum and All

I am using BubbleUPnP (Android app) on Hi-Res player of Android.

Device: FiiO X5 3rd (fiio.net/en/products/65)

OS: Android 5.1.1

1.

Network: Local network

Library (Server): MinimServer on MacBook

Renderer: BubbleUPnP Local Renderer on Android (FiiO X5 3rd)

Playback File: FLAC 24bit / 96kHz from MinimServer

-> Result: 24bit / 96kHz native playback. No Problem.

2.

Network: Local network

Library (Server): BubbleUPnP Local Media on Android (FiiO X5 3rd)

Renderer: BubbleUPnP Local Renderer on Android (FiiO X5 3rd)

Playback File: FLAC 24bit/96kHz from Local Media of BubbleUPnP Server on Android (FiiO X5 3rd)

-> Result: Down-convert playback to 16bit/96kHz. Not native.

In the environment of 1, it can playback with 24 bit native.

However, in the environment of 2, it is down-converted from 24bit to 16bit and playback.

Why?

It seems that BubbleUPnP Server on Android is down-converting 24bit to 16bit.

Is there a way to playback 24bit native when using Local Media of BubbleUPnP Server on Android as a library?

If there is no way, Could you add "disable down-convert" function to setting when playing from Local Media of BubbleUPnP Server on Android?

One more thing

BubbleUPnP Local Renderer on Android can not playback ALAC 24bit files.

ALAC 16bit files can be playback.

Hi-Res player of Android supports ALAC 24bit.

Could you add "Force own ALAC decoder" function to BubbleUPnP Local Renderer setting?

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I assume you have enabled Settings > Local renderer > Force own FLAC decoder ?

In that case, 24 bit FLAC audio is indeed converted to 16 bit (for local playback only). The reason is that to output 24 bit audio,

Android > 5 is needed and at the time I added the "own FLAC decoder" (long ago), Lollipop did not exist.

The "own FLAC decoder" should not be used in most case: it's justification was to replace the

buggy stock Android FLAC decoder on some old Android versions or on some Samsung devices on which their tweaked

FLAC decoder was buggy. This is rarely the case today on current devices.

So you really should disable this option and let FLAC be decoded by the Android system decoder which should do the right thing.

The system FLAC decoder is also more CPU efficient, has better seek support and supports gapless playback.

No version of Android comes with a stock ALAC decoder. So ALAC decoding is always performed by BubbleUPnP's own

ALAC decoder. It only supports 16 bit ALAC. Again it is old and I do not remember exactly why 24 bit is not supported,

but probably because it was hard to add support for it.

I have no current plan to add 24 bit playback support for both own FLAC and ALAC "own" decoders.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Looks like the media server on the WD TV is not returning the first track. Maybe check the file tags of the missing track to make sure its part of the same album. And/or trigger a media rescan on the wdtv.
[Android Apps and Games] doliometer:
START_SERVICE broadcast intent

The START_SERVICE broadcast intent makes the last renderer active and loads the last playlist content. Just like the renderer can be changed with the SET_RENDERER intent, can a saved playlist be loaded a similar intent? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] robert1337:
hello [MENTION=3373153]bubbleguuum[/MENTION] thanks for the great app! :D

just want to report a bug and a suggestion

the bug : if i play a video with subtitle (shared from other app), then i open another video (also shared from another app) using enqueue and play,

the subtitle from last video will appear on the new video. can you fix this?

the suggestion : can you add edge text coloring on subtitle appearance? i hate black blackgrounds (or any other other color for that matter)

id love to have blacked edge on text with transparent background. localcast app has this feature but that app keep crashing on my phone and the support seems dead on xda

im using galaxy note4 MM 6.0.1
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
What is your Media Server? I know of one issue with the image viewer where the first image will not display in some case (tap or fling the screen right to display subsequent images). I'm looking into it. Does this happen only with a mobile connection or are you able top replicate it on your LAN connecting to your regular Media Server deivce (eg not the BubbleUPnP Server managed one) ?

On a mobile connection you are limited by available bandwith, not the hardware.
[Android Apps and Games] zcs72:
Thanks. And thank you again for your outstanding products and first rate support and response time.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for the screenshots. It looks like it is a BubbleUPnP Server specific issue.

In BubbleUPnP Server Media Server tab, do you see these multiple occurences also listed ?

I think it could be a side effect of reinstalling Android BubbleUPnP several times and not restarting BubbleUPnP Server. In any case you can restart BubbleUPnP Server to reset the Media Server list.
[Android Apps and Games] zcs72:
Yes, to a degree. I would have to verify ,the next time it does it, that it shows the same number as on the phone. Also, it does it on my wife's Inc, as well as my sons Droid. Both are running on original install. I have reinstalled mine once.
[Android Apps and Games] akispavlopoulos:
Ok, here is the log file you asked. Hope it helps.... As I wrote you the file is playing fine on TV but I the time bar on both bubbleupnp and on LG tv is not moving.
[Android Apps and Games] webster2012:
BubbleuPNP and Mobile data usage

Hello,

I recently purchased BubbleUPNP and have been very impressed with it both as a player and streamer of music and video, however, I recently installed Onovo to monitor my mobile data usage and received an alert that bubbleupnp was using a lot of mobile data.

On checking I have discovered that the software has used around 500MB of data in the last week alone, costing over three times the price of the application in mobile data fees.

Could you please let me know how I switch off all mobile data use for the application, as Onovo is having no luck blocking its use of mobile data. I cannot think of why the player is using this much mobile data when all i'm doing is listening to music. I've been through all of the settings and can't find anything which looks like a 'Wifi-only' switch.

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
The log explains a few things.

You are trying to play an Ogg Vorbis file to the TV. This TV does not support playing Ogg Vorbis.

However foo_upnp exposes 2 additional streams URL for this file: a WAV and a LPCM stream. The TV does not support WAV but do support LPCM (LPCM is a mandatory DLNA format, WAV is not). BubbleUPnP detects that and instruct the TV to play the LPCM stream.

LPCM stream are mostly idententical to WAV except that they can be of infinite length (unlike WAVs which are files with a fixed length). My theory is that this TV consider LPCM as non-seekable stream and thus doesn't update time and do not allow seeking.

There's nothing the app can do for this: the TV cannot play ogg directly an the only compatible format is LPCM.
[Android Apps and Games] mike freegan:
Cheers for the response! I'll give that a try. You should ask if you can just include that in your app or something, as it'd make it a lot slicker.

Great job though and thanks again for all the hard work!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP will use mobile data if you use it with BubbleUPnP Server to stream music over a mobile data connection (you did not say if you use it that way).

For this usage, it is no different than any streaming app over a mobile connection (Spotify, webradio apps, ...).

Given that an average mp3 is a few Mb, you can see it can use a lot of bandwidth quick (but there is nothing abnormal here).
[Android Apps and Games] zelius:
Thanks friend,

I have connected the server successfully. How can I now link BubbleUPnP application to play my songs remotely from my tablet, I use MediaMonkey on my pc.

Thanks!!
[Android Apps and Games] akispavlopoulos:
Thanks for the quick answer! By the way I want to say that you are the most "proffesional" dev I have ever see in internet! You answer every message, every problem, quick and clear. I wish some proffesional tv makers, mobile phones and other gadget makers had at least 20% of your personality! I hope that you have a nice job and get paid a lot! You diserve it!

To my problem now: I know that my TV dosn't support Ogg Vorbis, or flac or ape files, that's why I use foobar for decoding (and not only, I use foobar because it can read and stream cue files). But you say that TV doesn't support WAV, at least in Upnp. So, why when I browse directly to foobar's library from my TV, I can play these files and I can see the time bar moving(on my TV)?

I tried another upnp application on my phone and the same ogg files plays perfectly in my tv and I can see the time bar moving (on both my tv and phone) and I can see the total time and the file size. I checked the log file in the foobar and it says that it streams a WAV file. So how can I make bubbleupnp stream a wav file to my LG?

By the way how can I make foobarupnp showing the album art when I browse in my library directly through my tv?( in TVrsity it does show the album art when I browse)
[Android Apps and Games] starfire:
Enhancement Request

Enhancement Request

I've started using Bubble on Android to push videos to my WDTV.

I realise you can adjust playback position by using the slider but I find it inaccurate, is there any way you could add some sort of skip forward/back buttons to the GUI to skip a user customisable amount of time forward or back?

Thanks for a brill app!! :D
[Android Apps and Games] jrp1305:
little help

What AM I MISSING to play my files from my PC??? lol

I have installed PLEX, which displays on the media-server tab

the app on android

I have make avaliable BOTH doors 58050 and 58051

BUT it shows nothing on the devices tab..and I cant get it work using the network settings either...

No matter if I put the lan address or the public ip I keep getting this error:

Connection failed

the remote server could not be joined: java.net. SocketException failed to connect to (ip adress/ip address) (port 58050) after 20000ms: isConnected failed: EHOSTUNREACH (no route host)

What am I missing? what is my caca!!?? lol

I have also tried with firewall down and nos success either

running DEFY with CM9 ICS ROM, if it helps.

Thanks brother!!!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I'm very surprised this TV plays WAV as it doesn't declare supporting it. Some devices do not declare all the codecs they support so it is still possible.

Anyway, as a test, to force playback of your ogg as WAV to the TV using BubbleUPnP here's what you can do

- in foo_upnp, edit the BubbleUPNP streaming profile to read:

"Decode always to WAV except mp3,aac,m4a,wav,wma"

- in BubbleUPnP, disable Settings > Advanced Settings > Mime-type check

Now if you play that ogg to the TV with BubbleUPnP, it will instruct the TV to play the WAV regardless of the fact the TV says it doesn't support WAV.

For now you can't: I must update foo_upnp to be more DLNA compliant (like BubbleUPnP is) regarding album art.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Can you explain your use case when you need seek to be super precise ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I only understand half of your message but if you just want to access Plex as a DLNA Server on your LAN, you do not need to install BubbleUPnP Server or to enter any ip address.

Make sure DLNA is enabled in Plex and it should appear in BubbleUPnP Library tab.
[Android Apps and Games] starfire:
Not super precise but with my mobile its difficult to be very precise at all using the slider, I guess if you have a phone with a large screen maybe its different.

On my videos I like to skip to certain parts to watch, if you were using a standard remote this is very easy by hitting skip a number of times, just wanted to emulate that using Bubble.
[Android Apps and Games] akispavlopoulos:
Well, I did as you say but no luck! The TV keeps receiving LPCM stream! I enabled the log files of foo_upnp to check them. No.1 is from bubbleupnp, no.2 is from the other upnp software. Hope it helps...

Please, when you have time do it! Please don't let this project (foo_upnp) down...
[Android Apps and Games] guiso98:
switching landscape/portrait

Awesome app. One bug I found is it does not remember the list position when changing to/from landscape/portrait. Example: browse the list of artists, pick one to see their songs. Go back. All fine. It remembers the last artist you picked.

Now do the same, pick the artist and in the list of songs switch to landscape. Then go back. I will take you to the top of the list of artists instead.

Please fix
[Android Apps and Games] greedisgood:
wow!i love these features.
[Android Apps and Games] KeithClarke:
Thank you, but I'm using a WD My Cloud, not a WD TV. It seems to be something about the artwork, because when I get rid of it in MediaMonkey, suddenly Track 1 reappears in BubbleUpnp.
[Android Apps and Games] Fidelcastro54:
Will there be an qpkg for the new QNap QTS 4.3.3 x64 Version?
[Android Apps and Games] fp.ath.cx:
Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement request: There is a framework called "Android Auto" for the convenient use of a selection of mobile apps in the car. Multimedia is an option, and certain players like "Google Music", "Spotify" etc are already supported. It would be great to have BubbleUPnP as an option there. Beside the added functionality, I think that would also be a good strategic move for the adoption of the app, because more users will get to know about it (and will use it probably).
[Android Apps and Games] RUDIRUESSEL:
Battery Drain after Bluetooth disconnect

I do experience a battery drain after I disconnect bluetooth.

When Bluetooth is disconnected, BuppleUpNp goes pauses but stays the top power consumer.

Think this is a pretty common use case when leaving the car. Is this something that can be fixed ?

Experiencing this on my Sony Xperia Z3 Compact.
[Android Apps and Games] twist3d0n3:
Hi bubbleguuum,

I have 3 chromecasts (1 in TV, 1 in projector and a cc audio connected to my amp). When I open the app, and sometimes whilst the app is opened, it will change from the chromecast I'm using to one of the others for no apparent reason. Is there a way to lock the app to the one that is currently being used or possibly a way of putting them in an order so the one I use most of the time (the TV one) is always at the top of the list?

Cheers in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] sv_93:
No album art covers on BubbleUPnP as control point

Hi bubbleguuum,

I'm using BubbleUPnP licenced app on my Android smartphone to control the following HiFi configuration :

Renderer : USB Audio Player Pro app on an Android TV Box (Beelink GT1)

Server : FLAC files on an USB HDD plugged to a Freebox Revolution Server (ADSL Box)

Using BubbleUPnP on my smartphone as a Control Point, USB Audio Player Pro is correctly displaying the album art covers on TV while playing songs :good: but I can't see any album art cover on my smartphone :(

Did I miss something in the BubbleUPnP settings ?

Thank you for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Do you see at least thumbail covers in the Library tab when browsing your Freebox revolution ?

My guess is that the (very basic) media server running on the Freebox does not send album art over UPnP, thus it is unavailable to BubbleUPnP.

But it show up in USB Player pro because it reads embedded album art (assuming embedded and not external album art here) directly from the streamed file.
[Android Apps and Games] sv_93:
No, I don't see thumbnail covers neither when browsing nor when playing.

You must be right regarding USB Player Pro because album arts are embedded on my FLAC files.

Any chance to add this feature to BubbleUPnP ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=4851254]twist3d0n3[/MENTION]

The "for no apparent reason" has in fact a real reason: Google Play Services notify BubbleUPnP that the currently active Chromecast has disappeared from the network. As a consequence, BubbleUPnP switch to another renderer.

Troubleshooting thes intermittent disconnections can be difficult. Try reobooting your WiFi router. Make sure its firmware is up to date. Experiment with different wifi channels. Analyse your Wifi with WiFi Analyser.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Not currently. And if I add it, it would only be for the full cover shown in the Now Playing tab (no thumbnails, for performance reasons).

Ideally you'd want to use a more capable media server such as MinimServer (http://minimserver.com), but you will not be able to run it on the freebox.
[Android Apps and Games] sv_93:
OK, understood.

Thank you for your reply and for the nice work you make on this app.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=7829133]RUDIRUESSEL[/MENTION]

Can you confirm that when bluetooth disconnects, BubbleUPnP playback is in paused state

(to check: go to the Now Playing tab and if elapsed time blinks, it is paused) ?

If it is indeed paused, I'd be interested in a log file recorded up to the point you disconenct BT (

see first post of this topic for logging instructions).

Paused state does indeed prevent the app to kill itself after a while (eg 'Kill on inactivity' to kick in).

Some version ago, I made a change that should result in playback being stopped (not paused) when BT is unplugged.

(and headset as well).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I understand your request but I have no plan to adapt BubbleUPnP for Android Auto.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
[MENTION=6312426]robert1337[/MENTION]

Will look into it. What is that "other app" you use to send the video to BubbleUPnP with an attached subtitle ?

Subtitle appearance can be fully controlled but when playing to Chromecast only.

Play a video, go to the now playing tab and tap the "speech bubble" icon on top.
[Android Apps and Games] twist3d0n3:
Thanks for that. I suspect my router is probably the issue as its 10 years old and running dd wrt, so i'll play around with it and see what I can find out. Cheers!
[Android Apps and Games] robert1337:
the other app is terrarium tv.

to reproduce : share vid with terrarium tv, download subtitle within bubbleupnp, then while the video is playing with subtitle, share another video from terrarium tv.

the subtitle from the first video will be playing on the 2nd video

nonono you dont get what i mean, i want subtitle text outline option.

your app can only do this

i want to do this

notice there is no background on 2nd pic? it only outlines the text so we can see it clearly

and yes im using it on chromecast
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You can set the subtitle background to transparent. Now Playing > Speech bubble icon > Change subtitles appearance > background opacity (set the slider all he way to the left).

Once transparent, you will see the font has slight shadowing. Not as good as outlines, but Chrome which is rendering subtitles cannot do outlines.
[Android Apps and Games] robert1337:
what do you mean cannot do outlines?

these two apps can do it, why bubbleupnp cant??

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.stefanpledl.localcast

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instantbits.cast.webvideo
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Well, shadowing is used in all cases, except that in BubbleUPnP it is very slight while in your screenshot it is super strong to the point

it nearly look like (in your face and approximate) outlines. And yes, I could make it look like this although I do not like it very much.
[Android Apps and Games] robert1337:
well. i really like the hard outlines, which makes it easier to read the subtitles

maybe you can add settings for it? like outline level or something like that :)
[Android Apps and Games] steve51184:
Anyway to not have the notification auto expand?
[Android Apps and Games] tjua:
Playlists

New in forum so forgive me if I, by accident, goes the wrong way.

Setup; QNAP NAS with minimserver installed, Sony Z5 Android 7.0 Using the App I am able to see visually in the folder playlist on the app all my playlists stored on the NAS. Selecting one playlist (highlight) and the play symbol expecting the music to start flowing However, only respons is "No item was found in sub-folders of the selected folders". This happens with both relative and exact paths in the playlist.

I expect the usual user erros, any help please?

Else, thanks for a wonderful app, life is much better with one simple way to connect between "Devices"