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[Android Apps and Games] wookie2820:
BubbleUPnP and VLC

Hi guys,

A question about BubbleUPnP and VLC. When I open 'Devices' tab in BubbleUPnP, the VLC is not listed under 'Renderers' section. Is it because VLC does not work as UPnP server or I am the one who is doing something wrong? It works great with foobar2000 where I can control it through BubbleUPnP. I want to do the same with VLC...
[Android Apps and Games] diddle:
Browsing various artist's albums; missing artists

Hi bubblegum,

a small question from my side... I have lot's of compilations in my music collection. When browsing those from the library tab, I see the album artist ("Various Artists" in this case) on the top.

However, it would be great to see the artist with each track to identify it more easisly when browsing. In the playlist view it looks just like desired.

Maybe it would be generally a good idea to have the identical information on the top and differing tags with each track. Could also be good for year/date, composer, conductor, etc. Maybe even customizable what tags are visible?

Or is there already something like this hidden in this execllent piece of software?

Thanks for your effords!

Diddle.
[Android Apps and Games] angusc:
Does anyone know why some .avi files will play through bubble and an external renderer and others will error and not play?

I have had this happen a few times now but can't figure out why.

Sent witH desire from One X
[Android Apps and Games] njbair:
Different codecs. AVI is just a container, so if your renderer doesn't support an AVI's codec, it won't play.

Can you play those videos on the same renderer when NOT running through Bubble?
[Android Apps and Games] angusc:
Thanx for the reply. I usually use bubble from my tablet to play movies from my home pc on to my tv using an HTC media link. So when I get the unable to play this type of media message I then have to play via my Dreambox, vlc client and vlc on my PC.

Bubble option is much easier to run!

Is there anything that can be done to the .avi file to make it work?

Sent witH desire from One X
[Android Apps and Games] njbair:
Nothing short of reencoding the videos (or downloading in a different format). Maybe take a look at http://handbrake.fr
[Android Apps and Games] Uoppi:
Hi bubbleguuum,

1) Would it be possible to include an option for "Composer" in the Library view too? At least when set to "Large" the display has enough room for an additional info line. Not being able to see the composer makes browsing the library difficult sometimes with classical titles.

2) Have you had a chance to look into the issue of 192kHz/24bit high-res FLACs being downsampled to mono by BubbleUPnP? I only know of Neutron player that seems to do it properly to stereo on Android. I have no idea if it's just Galaxy Note II or if this mono thing is happening on all Android devices - Google doesn't give me any hints. At home I can use Foobar server's downsampling but often when I'm away I have to rely on BubbleUPnP's resampling.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
VLC is not listed under the Devices tab because it is neither an UPnP renderer nor media server.

You might want to try XBMC instead which is noth
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Normally, for Various artists albums folders in Library, track artist is displayed for each track (if the media server returns "track artists", that is).

See attached screenshot.

Can you post a screenshot of how it looks in Library and Playlist for you so I can have a better understanding of your request ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
1. Will look into it. Are you using "Large" on a phone or tablet ?

2. Some time ago I could verify BubbleUPnP was resampling some high res files to what sounded mono instead of stereo.

Comparing with foobar2000 resampling made it evident something sounded off.

My effort at the time did not permit to solve this issue, but I will look at it again.

In the meantime, there are 2 solutions when you're away. First, install BubbleUPnP Server and connect to it with Android BubbleUPnP.

This will allow you to either:

- if you have a mobile or WiFi connection when you are away, to stream those higher res files (and other regular FLACs) transcoded to mp3 on the fly (by BubbleUPnP Server)

- if you do not have a mobile or WiFi connection when you are away, to download (at home) a transcoded version of these files to your phone for offline playback (this feature requires the license) with your music player of choice (including BubbleUPnP).
[Android Apps and Games] Uoppi:
Phone (or "phablet" :silly:): Samsung Galaxy Note II. It looks like on "Large" there would be ample space for an extra row of info without it becoming congested looking at all.

Yes, I've been doing this and in it works ok if there's a decent connection. However because I'm using VPN, Bubble UPnP Server sees me as if I'm inside LAN and the "foobar2000 remote access" settings make no difference. So I need to toggle Foobar's BubbleUPnP streaming profile settings manually between mp3 and CD quality. But on my phone the BubbleUPnP app does recognize I'm actually accessing the server remotely because under Devices -> Libraries it states Mobile. :confused: I know I could use HTTPS, I'm just a bit paranoid about keeping ports open.

Sure, I'm actually planning on adding pre-transcoded versions to my NAS drive.

Cool, thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] diddle:
Hi bubbleguuum,

thanks a lot for your response.

Your screenshot surprised me... it's not like what I see on my Nexus7 tablet. So I tried on my phone... and indeed the artist info is there! :D

So I tested a little on my Nexus7 and found that the artist is missing if i enable the "Multiline items" option in Settings -> Display!

Best regards

Diddle.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That's a bug. I have fixed it, so on the Nexus7 and other tablets, if the multiline option is enabled, it looks like the Nexus4 screenshot I posted. That means a full line for title and artist.
[Android Apps and Games] amatala:
I mainly use my tablet for controlling my Marantz processor, so creating/updating the BubbleUPnP profile is a good alternative for me.

Thank you very much for this solution!
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I'm adding it (displaying in album list, the composer if present) but it will require the media server to set a composer for album items (while in the Now Playing screen this requirement is on the played item). What is your media server ?

"foobar2000 remote access" settings only apply when browsing with foobar2000 as a remote Internet client. They do not apply to Android BubbleUPnP at all.

If you access your VPN over a mobile connection, audio transcoding settings in Settings > Network and settings > Mobile max bitrate , should apply. If you access the VPN though Wifi, Settings > Network and settings > Wifi / eth max bitrate, will apply instead.

Although I never tried it directly, there's no reason transcode settings should not work when accessing BubbleUPnP Server over a VPN.
[Android Apps and Games] Uoppi:
I'm using Foobar2000. Obiously, I've got the "Composer" tag in all of my files but good to know I may have to change Foobar settings also.

Yeah, I noticed the max bitrate setting in the BubbleUPnP app does the trick! Don't know how I manage to miss that before. :silly:
[Android Apps and Games] charlie878:
Just bought license... Awesome app!!! GoFlex user
[Android Apps and Games] Tom23Ko:
I have a problem with this:

When I try streaming a youtube-video from my SGSII to my GalaxyTab 2 via semperVidLinks BubbleUPnP reproducable crashes and restarts at the first try. After this I get an "Action timeout" and after some more attemps by pressing the "play"-button repeatedly in BubbleUPnP on both devices the video eventually starts playing for some time before breaking off. When I try sharing to my SamsungTV as renderer (which works pretty well as renderer with everything else) I always get the "resource not found" error.

Am I doing something wrong?

- I start BubbleUPnP on both devices

- select a video on the youtube-app

- hit the share button

- select semperVidLinks

- hit the view button

- select BubbleUPnP as target app
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
For the next version I have fixed an intermittent crash related to remotely controlling the video renderer, so that's likely to be the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] marlv:
Amazon music cloud suport

is there an amazon music cloud support planned any soon. i'd love to see that since the original one of amazon is missing basic functions and is therefor best called useless :angel:
[Android Apps and Games] 463nt_0ran63:
Is it possible to sort by CD number? The tag is filled but seems to be ignored by bubble. In other media player (avia) this works
[Android Apps and Games] texneus:
Sorry this has taken so long to make it back your way, but the past month I have been finalizing my server which involved some hardware updates necessitating a re-install of the bare OS on up.

I now know why I hadn't noticed this switch before, it requires Android 4.1+, so it was grey'd out on my phone. As much as I'd like to pick your brain about why, it seems you have your hands more than full based on the number of messages here in the past month :eek:. My phone was orphaned by my provider and is stuck on an old Gingerbread release, No worries though, it was exactly the impetus I needed to move on (yet another reason for the long delay). I am happy to report that Gapless playback works flawless on 64kbps ogg audio on Sprint's feeble 3G network using Cyanogenmod 10.1 M3 (Jellybean 4.2.2) :D!!

One final nit, for some reason I frequently receive "error downloading image from server" and a red 'x' viewing images a few seconds after selecting it. Just a guess but the images are stored on my server as raw files and transcoded to jpg by my DLNA server (Serviio) before handing the image off to Bubble UPnP Server. The transcoding process takes 3-5 seconds per image, so I'm guessing BubbleUPnP simply times out assuming the server isn't alive since the image isn't served up instantly? The image will sometimes appear on it's own eventually, but usually only after going back and re selecting it. Files that start as jpg are not impacted.

Thanks again for all your hard effort. I haven't seen anything that can touch what Bubble UPnP can do!:good:
[Android Apps and Games] nopxd:
so impressive but...

Hi,

I was looking for something like this for weeks (since my office got the fiber) !

This thing is amazing !

I guess this part was easy: you already got all you need in the android app.

But....(here it comes, and it's a complimentary one)...but I went to your site many times and its look (and last release date) prevented me from reading its content.

I think you realize you got something amazing, but you really need a nice site with drawings and all. The usual issue in marketing is that they need a story to tell, but a video showing was you can do with a simple android phone at some friend's house with a standard dlna TV would look fantastic. People want to look cool.

One last thing, your server name should reflect what is does, like "BubbleUPnP Tunnel" and the Windows "client" part could be named like "BubbleUPnP Introducer" with a cartoon showing that the streams aren't proxied, like the app telling the TV "let me introduce to you this remote UPnP Server".

I know that's none of my business, but your thing could be a killer.

Anyway, thx a lot for this nice peace of software !

Olivier Allouch

illicotravel.com
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This is impossible as there is no Amazon Cloud Drive API, official or unofficial.
[Android Apps and Games] puffel86:
Hello i have a problem and i hope somebody can help me. I like this app really much. Thx for your hard work bubbleguuum.

The problem is when i want to send videos from video streaming apps over bubbleupnp to my samsung tv i get the error message 'cannot play: unmanaged mime- type: application/octet-stream...everytime.

Does anybody have a fix for that?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
By default, BubbleUPnP lists tracks in the order the server returns them.

You may want to try enabling Settings > Library > Smart Sort, to see if it helps.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
It is possible it is a timeout issue but could be something else (I have increased timemouts in the next release). Could you send me (bubbleguuum at free.fr), the BubbleUPnP Server log (file BubbleUPnPServer.log.0 found in the install dir on Windows).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That problem comes from the mime-type not specific enough for BubbleUPnP to know if the content is audio, video or image.

Can you describe what streaming app you use and the steps to reproduce this issue ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Thanks for the feedback. It is true that the web site could be better organized.
[Android Apps and Games] njbair:
If you are interested in a redesign, hit me up. I'd love to be involved in that project.
[Android Apps and Games] puffel86:
Thx for your reply.

I was trying free xxx streaming apps from the mikandi adult appstore :angel: ...for example the app called 'simple p..n video viewer (spv)'...I tried to send the streams over bubbleupnp to the tv. For that I klicked on a video for playing and then I choose bubbleupnp for playback...but then the error occurs with 'cannot play:unmanaged mime-type...'

And with the app called 'pxxxtube' I get the error message 'resource not found (code:176)', but the filename and the forrmat mp4 showed up.
[Android Apps and Games] schubi82:
Hi!

Would it be possible to stream only the audio content of a received Youtube content (via SemperVid)? Background is, that my Receiver only can process audio DLNA and I would like to hear the sound of Youtube...

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] tyranitar:
Feature: Local Media Server read file-based playlist

Feature request for the Android app:

read the file-based playlist (aka M3U) in the Local Media Server on phone, and stream the contained files.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You can send m3u files to BubbleUPnP from a file manager like ES File Explorer.

I will add the ability to load them directly from the local media server (in the Filesystem subtree) in a future version of BubbleUPnP.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
That is not possible
[Android Apps and Games] 463nt_0ran63:
Hi exactly the opposit helped I disabled smart sort now it uses the correct sort of the server. But anyways this means that the smart search kind of ignores the CD meta tag. Isn't it?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
disc number is never sent with UPnP, so Smart Smort might be confused for sorting a folder containing several discs.

This probably can be detected so it doesn't sort in that case.

With Smart Sort enabled wasn't the sort order something like:

cd 1 - track 1

cd 2 - track 1

cd 1 - track 2

cd 2 - track 2

....
[Android Apps and Games] Tom23Ko:
Surprisingly this works on my Sony CMT-MX700Ni. Detected it yesterday by accident. The Sony was the renderer preset and as I shared via SemperVidLinks it directly started playing the audio of the YouTube-video.

The last update fixed the crash i reported some days ago. BubbleUPNP crashing when sharing via SemperVidLinks and BubbleUPNP already running in the background. Still my TV does not like YouTube via BubbleUPNP. Maybe it has to do with the MP4-Container. I'll put some more testing in it to find the source of this.
[Android Apps and Games] flash5000:
bubbleguuum,

I'm still trying to run the server on a Windows PC at the moment.

It works for some time now, but after a while, all UPnP servers which should be managed through BubbleUPnP Server disappear.

My server log is attached.

There are a few errors, as you can see - now it's your turn :D
[Android Apps and Games] Spliffeh:
I love the app, I bought it almost directly and in my house it makes me enjoy music from my server whilst running around.

I have one question though:

I have a windows home server v1.

How can i get bubble UPNP to connect to it over the internet?

I was thinking of installing a VPN on the server, or is there another way? Preferably without installing too much software! Thanks for help!:)
[Android Apps and Games] flash5000:
You are one lucky guy - BubbleUPnP Server was released a few days ago, which allows for exactly this! ;)

See the first post of this thread...
[Android Apps and Games] hyde:
Hi, Tks for your help.

Actually I had tried running "java -jar BubbleUPnPServer.jar &" from my putty to get the program in background.

It able to run but once I close putty, it also closes the Bubble server. So I trying to get this command to auto run when my NAS server started.

But here the problem, I am quite noob on linux. I wrote a script and put onto init.d folder. But I don't think it is working and I dunno how to do it correctly to run/write a start up script properly.
[Android Apps and Games] abgestumpft:
I think this autostart should be different for each NAS.

On QNAP there's a autorun.sh on the flash drive and there's a special docu from QNAP for adjusting this one.

I would expect something similar on your Synology. The best would be to consult the special forums / docus for your NAS.
[Android Apps and Games] hyde:
Noted, tks.
[Android Apps and Games] hyde:
Finally got it working by installing screen to let the server run even I exist my Putty session.

Still unable to get the auto start working but this work fine for me now as I rarely restart my NAS.

---------- Post added at 12:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:59 AM ----------

Just to check, is srt subtitle supported using BubbleUPnP on Android?

Or is it the job of the video player?
[Android Apps and Games] Spliffeh:
I had actually read it, but I don't see support for windows server 2003 and, no offense ment, but there are also personal documents on the server and how can i know that software in such early state is safe for outside attacks? Hence my question if anyone knows a method to do it with what is already built in windows home server v1.

Many thanks:)
[Android Apps and Games] Spliffeh:
Ok so i managed to install it on the windows home server, but i guess i kinda expected a wrong thing... I thought it would turn my windows home server into an internet connected upnp server. But it doesn't show up in the list:p Only my other pc's. So I'm still having the same problem:)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
You mean you have a WHS with an upnp server running on it, and you do not see that server appearing in the Media Server tab of BubbleUPnP Server ?
[Android Apps and Games] bigjohnx:
Hi bubbleguuum ,

May I change the Useragent ID in BubbleUPnP? Furthermore....are you the developer of foo_upnp.dll also?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
No you can't change it. If you told me what you want to do instead ?
[Android Apps and Games] drhill:
When I render to my TV it says something to the effect of "Playing media from unknown device" is there a way to have BubbleUPNP set that name or is it something on my TV?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
BubbleUPnP 1.1.3 is available on the Market, mostly a bugfix release:

1.1.3

fix: high CPU usage on some HTC models (thanks Sebastian!)

fix: crash on app start if device's language is Arabic

fix: crash on Android 2.1 when connecting to Internet remote UPnP network

fix: could not change the download directory anymore

fix: "Kill on inactivity" setting not working properly

added "Lossless Only" settings in Remote UPnP configuration. If enabled, only Lossless audio is transcoded

faster album art fetching over mobile connections (requires BubbleUPnP Server 0.2+)

other fixes

I also released BubbleUPnP Server 0.2 which speed up album art retrieval a lot over slow connections (mobile):

optimize album art size for faster download speed over mobile connections

kill ffmpeg process when client stops playback

reduced exception spam in log

various fixes
[Android Apps and Games] be-nelli:
Hi Bubbleguuum,

just an update:

I've just installed the latest release and checked again. The behaviour is still the same as with the previous version. Are you planning on looking into that issue or is it for you on the low priority list? If the former, do you need more information?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
I tried to reproduce it with my renderers but everything seems fine.

Could you record and send me an app log (see first post of this topic for instructions).

What happens when using "DS210j [Home]" and forcing transcode to a low bitrate of 64Kbps (Settings > Networks and settings > Wifi / Eth Max bitrate), does the DS210j play it with playback triggered from BubbleUPnP? Expected result is that it should play a 64Kbps transcode of your file.
[Android Apps and Games] marcin.gorecki:
Can't fast forward some mp3s.

I love your program BubbleUPNP, I've bought it last week.

There's a small problem with some mp3 (for example: podcasts from lbc.audioagain.com) - I can't fast forward or rewind them. The same operation on the same file works with other upnp players (Windows Media Player in UPnP mode, renderer in Samsung TV with control by BubbleUPnP).

What kind of information can I provide you to try to debug the problem? Is there any setting I can change?

The app is running on Motorola Milestone with Android 2.2. The server is NAS: Iomega 1TB Home Media Network Hard
[Android Apps and Games] flash5000:
Hi,

I installed ver. 0.2 of the server, but still have the same problem as before:

After some time, the servers managed through BubbleUPnP do not show up anymore. After restarting the server, it works again for some time.

Anyone experiencing the same?

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
From the logs you posted it looks like your servers appear/disappear intermittently on your network:
[Android Apps and Games] flash5000:
Thanks for the answer!

This means that they get for example disconnected and reconnected from time to time, right?

If so, would it be possible to implement a possibility to rescan the network for servers? Maybe in the server config page, but also in the app, the latter triggering a server rescan too?

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] humarf:
Hi,

I have tested new version of bubbleupnpserver. Thank you so much for implementing support for sony wireless speakers sa-ns310 and compatible. It works like a charm. :thumbup:

Best regards

humarf
[Android Apps and Games] chw9999:
Hi,

Thanks for the outstanding app :)

I just wonder if you could possibly please include mpo stereo image support? I.e., my LG TV cannot "see" my extensuve photo collection :(

Thanks again!

--

Gesendet mit HTC EVO 3D and Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Uoppi:
Hi bubbleguum,

for some reason the Library isn't showing the composer info even though the Item height is set to Large on my Galaxy Note II. I only see title, album title and artist, just like before. By long pressing I can verify the FLAC's metadata includes the composer tag so I'm not sure what the matter is.

EDIT: Apparently it's a server thing. Any tips how I should set up Foobar2000 for that? I've tried adding %composer% to all sorts of places in Foobar but without success.
[Android Apps and Games] 463nt_0ran63:
Yes this was the search order with smart search
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Current version of foo_upnp does not transmit composer at the album level (only for tracks). This needs an update to foo_upnp 0.99.47 which I haven't made public yet (hopefully within the next few days).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Ok, I have fixed Smart Sort to not sort in that case (multiple tracks having the same track number and no way to sort them properly due to no discnumber info).
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
This seems to be an unusual image format (had to Google it). Your media server would have to recognize them and your TV able to display them.

Is that the case ?
[Android Apps and Games] bubbleguuum:
Most youtube videos are MP4. It is probable this audio renderer is able to extract and play audio tracks in mp4 streams containing both audio and video. Did you disable Settings > UPnP Tweaks > Mime-type check ?

Unfortunately BubbleUPnP doesn't work with video for some Samsung TV models. Hence the "Resource not found" error you get.