it's not only useful, it is a basic feature for tablet owners
. Personally, I will buy the app if it supports lastfm scrobbling and landscape mode.
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. Personally, I will buy the app if it supports lastfm scrobbling and landscape mode.I am having an issue playing back FLAC files with album art. I am using the Local Renderer on a Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate running Android 2.2. The files are on my network storage server running Debian Squeeze with minidlna as the server software.
The BubbleUPnP player displays the art, correctly identifies the file as FLAC with bitrate and track length, but does not play the file. It just sits there at 0:00 with the play/pause icon displaying the pause icon. This only happens with FLAC files with cover art. FLAC files without cover art play beautifully.
It may have something to do with cover art embedded in the tag.
Thanks, great app!
The BubbleUPnP player displays the art, correctly identifies the file as FLAC with bitrate and track length, but does not play the file. It just sits there at 0:00 with the play/pause icon displaying the pause icon. This only happens with FLAC files with cover art. FLAC files without cover art play beautifully.
It may have something to do with cover art embedded in the tag.
Thanks, great app!
it's not only useful, it is a basic feature for tablet owners
Landscape mode will be in the next beta
Thanks for reporting, I'll look into it.
When do you think will arrive the next beta?
And when it becomes a paid app, how much will it cost? I would pay for it...
The last thing. Is it possible to show the photographs without download them? Like the music or the videos...
Thanks and congratulations for a great job
Nice work bubbleguuum. I can vaguely remember your foo_discogs plugin which was great also
It tried bubbleupnp and am missing something to sort the tracks by filename/cd/tracknumber instead of title?
Or does this have to do with my upnp server?
It tried bubbleupnp and am missing something to sort the tracks by filename/cd/tracknumber instead of title?
Or does this have to do with my upnp server?
Price is still undecided. Maybe a photo player will make it in the future but not a priority.
It's related to the upnp server. The app only displays items in the order the server returns them. If you browse your server by filesystem structure, you'll probably have the files listed in whatever is the default order of the remote filesystem, which most of the time will be alphabetically.Nice work bubbleguuum. I can vaguely remember your foo_discogs plugin which was great also
It tried bubbleupnp and am missing something to sort the tracks by filename/cd/tracknumber instead of title?
Or does this have to do with my upnp server?
Any way, 0.9.9.5 is available on the Market with landscape support and fixes:
- new: landscape mode
- Library: browse compatibility fixes with some Media Servers
- Library: cleaned up context menu for video items. Tapping a video item now always plays it
- attempt at improving stability on Android 3.0.1+
- various fixes and enhancements
Try enabling the "Alternate track advance" method in Settings>Advanced Settings. It may now work now since it needs working playing track elapsed time.
Some WDTV Live models have a huge bug in the renderer: they don't advertise the Control Point of their "playing" state, so the app cannot know it is playing something.
That, and their Media Server loves to send invalid XML (which I workarounded).
sorry, didnt mentioned that i already tried that - still not working.
i tested so much apps on android and iOS and most of them can play the next track without problems - so i think that this can be fixed...
EDIT: for example it works with "UPnPlay"
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nice player, has real potential, I use it for music playback from my upnp nas server, works great.
Some observations: jpg files on my upnp device are displayed as music files (music notes icon)
Perhaps some (more) buffering, playback gets garbled (stutter) when I'm even not that far away from my wifi router.
I hope you keep developing!
Some observations: jpg files on my upnp device are displayed as music files (music notes icon)
Perhaps some (more) buffering, playback gets garbled (stutter) when I'm even not that far away from my wifi router.
I hope you keep developing!
Hey, I am observing the same issue.
I am using the app on an Acer Iconia A500 tablet; my UPNP device is an Thecus N5200 Pro...
My jpgs all appear as music files and I do not see any chance to play them.
Any idea?
I am using the app on an Acer Iconia A500 tablet; my UPNP device is an Thecus N5200 Pro...
My jpgs all appear as music files and I do not see any chance to play them.
Any idea?
Can it be updated to accept the audio/mp4 mimetype? minidlna uses it for m4a. upnplay accepts it, but this has a much better interface. And any chance of a sleep timer (so it stops playing or exits once the time is up)?
The app only handle audio and video but doesn't prevent browsing images. No plan to add
support for images.
audio/m4a is already recognized. Is it not played by the local renderer, or some other external renderer ? What happens when you try to play it ?
I may add a sleep timer feature.
It uses audio/mp4, not m4a. Local renderer. "not playable: No compatible audio codec found." They're all AAC and upnplay is fine with them.
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WDTV Live firmware is buggy when pushing its status updates. It could be fixed using the polling method (which is CPU hungry and inefficient, probably what other apps use) but I'm not doing that just to support 1 device.
I'm really fed up workarounding devices bugs. I had to do plenty of workarounds to support buggy hardware already. I'll submit the bug to WD so they have a chance to fix it (if they care enough) in future updates.
Just want to say thanks
Works AMAZING with Popcorn C-200 and Asus TF !!! thank you for great stream application keep the good work
One request, if you can please add subtitle support (it will be great) when playing stream video.
Works AMAZING with Popcorn C-200 and Asus TF !!! thank you for great stream application
keep the good work One request, if you can please add subtitle support (it will be great) when playing stream video.
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I am trying to listen to music track from my NAS (Bufallo LS-VL) to LG SmartTV and getting error "Transition not available - code 701". Direct playing from NAS to TV is working just fine.
Please advice what should I do to solve this issue
Thanks
Please advice what should I do to solve this issue
Thanks
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Can you send me (at bubblesoftproducts@gmail.com) the BubbleUPnP Server log file (BubbleUPnPServer.log.0, usually found on Windows in folder C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\BubbleUPnP Server) after attempting to play with Kazoo a TIDAL track to the upmpdcli renderer managed by BubbleUPnP Server, resulting in that failure to play ?
Make sure to select the correct upmpdcli renderer in Kazoo (the BubbleUPnP Server managed one).1
It's happening to me as well, starting last week.
If you reset the application preference using the control panel which also allow to uninstall apps and try again, you will notice that Tidal has introduced a "human" verification, but Kazoo cannot prompt the user properly. Then you will get the same error again.
Kazoo has been last updated in 2016 so I suppose won't be "fixed" (but I'd prefer to be wrong) so I am afraid we are out of luck here, at least with Kazoo. Unless Tidal changes something but this looks unlikely for a very old app like this one.
It's a shame, I still like to use Kazoo when I am on a windows laptop.1I've just downloaded the new Linn app on my phone and to my surprise it works!
Give it a go. -
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BubbleUPnP on Google Play [current version: 4.3.6, released on April 4th 2024]
BubbleUPnP on Amazon appstore [current version: 4.3.4, released on February 26th 2024]
BubbleUPnP latest APKs, Google Play version (notably for side-loading on Android TV)
BubbleUPnP latest APK, Amazon appstore version (notably for side-loading on Fire TV)
BubbleUPnP 'Audio Cast' Xposed Module. Only needed on Android < 10. (current version: 1.1, released on April 28th 2021)
BubbleUPnP Server home page (download and documentation) [current version: 0.9-update49, released on February 17th 2024]
BubbleUPnP home page
Stream all your music, videos and photos to various devices in your house:
- Chromecast
- DLNA TVs
- gaming consoles: Xbox, Playstation (from XMB)
- UPnP/DLNA renderers: XBMC, WDTV Live, other Android devices, ...
- various HiFi gear from Sonos, Denon, Pioneer, Onkyo and many more
- local Android playback
BubbleUPnP can access your media from a lot of sources, including:
- UPnP/DLNA media servers: most NASes, XBMC, Plex, Twonky, Serviio, Windows Media Player and many more
- local media stored on your Android device
- cloud media: Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Google Music, Google+
- SMB Shares
- WebDAV (ownCloud, NextCloud, webserver...)
- media from other apps such as web browsers and file managers, using Share/Send
- captured audio from most other apps. Requires Xposed (root)
- Shoutcast radio (with XiiaLive)
BubbleUPnP is a versatile app packed with many features for you to discover, some of which are:
- extensive Chromecast support: play incompatible Chromecast media with transcoding (*), subtitles, audio/video track selection (*)
- fast and secure Internet access to your home media while on the go, from mobile and WiFi networks (*)
- playback queue, editable playlists, scrobbling, sleep timer, various shuffle modes
- integrated full screen image viewer and controller
- media download to your SD Card
- ...and much more!
(*) Some features are provided by BubbleUPnP Server, an optional software that can be installed on any machine on your local network to provide additional services. To learn more about BubbleUPnP Server, visit https://bubblesoftapps.com.
Some features are restricted and can be unlocked by purchasing the BubbleUPnP License app.
If something is not working, you can record a log file and mail it to me at bubblesoftproducts@gmail.com:
- launch the app
- go into More > Settings > Control
- Enable "logging to file" (at the end of the page).
- IMPORTANT: Exit the app (More > Exit)
- restart the app
- run the app and trigger the problem to troubleshoot
- exit the app (More > Exit)
- email me the files found on internal storage:
On Android 10 and below:
/Android/data/com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp/log.txt
/Android/data/com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp/prev_log.txt
On Android 11 and higher:
/Downloads/com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp_log.txt
/Downloads/prev_com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp_log.txt (if present)
You can access them with a file manager app and share them to your email app for sending them.
IMPORTANT: Make sure to not restart BubbleUPnP until you have sent or saved the log file as it is overwritten on app startup.9BubbleUPnP 1.6.8 and BubbleUPnP Server 0.6.5 are available
Thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions, bug reports, logs etc.
BubbleUPnP 1.6.8
Video transcoding enhancements with BubbleUPnP Server (requires upgrading to BubbleUPnP Server 0.6.5)
- transcoded video preserve embedded subtitles (mostly found in MKV). MX Player must be configured to use the H/W+ or S/W decoder to allow to select subtitles
- when playing a transcoded video, ability to choose interactively audio/video streams to be included in the transcoded video (when there is more than 1 audio/video stream)
- added ability to download transcoded videos (as MKV), preserving all audio/video tracks and subtitles of the original video
Transcode quality can be set in "Settings > Network And Settings > Video transcoding", in the "File downloads" transcoding section.
Requires licensed BubbleUPnP.
New features
- added Google Music auto playlists: "Thumbs up" and "Last added" (needs a Sync to appear)
- added exit button to rich JB notification. Exit the app the same way than Menu > Exit
- added option Settings > Library > Play displays Now Playing. If enabled, play actions in Library immediately switch to the Now Playing screen
- added option Settings > Now Playing > Keep screen on. If enabled, the screen is kept on when device is plugged to power and on the Now Playing screen. Enabled by default
- added "Music > Artists > All Albums" local media server folder, listing all albums sorted by album artist
- added "Show metadata" action in context menu of album folders in Library (useful to see long titles)
- added instructions for playing tunein radios from the Android web browser, in Settings > About/Help > Tips > Interacting with other apps
- added ability to edit an item's metadata (title, album, artist) with context menu > Edit metadata in the Playlist tab and in a saved playlist folder (in Library).
Useful to rename items having missing or incomplete metadata that have been sent to BubbleUPnP from third party apps (ex: tunein). This feature must only be used for items that will be added to a saved playlist. It *does not* modify metadata on the server - show album composer in album lists in Library, if composer is present and Settings > Display > Item size is set to Medium or greater
- downloading a video also downloads the external subtitle file if present
- local folder search also searches album name and artist instead of just title
Bug fixes
- fixed subtitle URLs sent by recent versions of Twonky (7.x) not recognized
- fixed download of non-media items (such as subtitles) giving an error
- fixed Stop (long-click on Play/Pause button) sometimes triggering playback of next track
- fixed "Settings > Display > Multiline items" not working properly in Library album folders
- fixed lock screen controls not showing when playing videos to external renderer
- fixed current LAN renderer lost when network connection switches from WiFi to mobile data or no network
- fixed error when playing podcast sent from Share action of Doggcatcher
- fixed broken playlist track advance on some Roku renderers
- fixed images displayed from Wild Media Server being low resolution (workaround WMS bug)
- fixed Search action not available on phones, in Library folders containing items only, such as playlists. Now available under menu > Search, allowing local search of these folders
- fixed possible crash when playing a video to a remote BubbleUPnP instance
- fixed obscure crashes, some of them involving old versions of Android
BubbleUPnP Server 0.6.5
- added support for transcoding videos to MKV instead of MPEG-TS in a number of cases. MKV is automatically used when embedded subtitles must be preserved, and
for transcoded video downloads (both require Android BubbleUPnP 1.6.8+). ffmpeg must have been compiled with MKV support - fixed proxy media servers not discovered by Windows Media Player
- added option -useNumericIpInStreamURL to force the server to return numeric ip stream URLs instead of a hostname.
This may be required for some specific renderers to accept to stream from a media server via tethering. This setting is forced if the browsing
client is a Samsung TV, which requires it - fixed small CPU spike every 30s on slow NASes
- fixed stream URLs becoming invalid if browsing large number of items (more than 3000)
- fixed Sony SA-NS310 renderer recognized as a media server instead of a renderer
- fixed proxies not carrying the X_MS_MediaReceiverRegistrar service
- libshine is used for mp3 transcoding if compiled in ffmpeg (useful on slow NASes as it uses way less CPU than libmp3lame)
- added missing Standby action support for OpenHome renderers (simply stops playback)
- fixed transcoded images rarely failing to load due to low read timeout
- Windows installer: updated ffmpeg to 1.2, added ffprobe, updated Java installer to 7u21
8Finally, it's there!
BubbleUPnP 1.8.0 is available on Google Play, bringing Chromecast support.
BubbleUPnP Server 0.8 is available as well, providing transcoding support.
All the details in this G+ post
.8BubbleUPnP 4.0 announcement
I've been working on BubbleUPnP 4.0.
It will refresh the UI with Material Design 3, including (optional) Material You support (on Android 12+). It's been a lot of work and there is still a lot to do as the app is huge (and old, 12 years and counting. First version was released on Android 2.3!). Converting the app settings to androidx.preference, fragments and tweak some prefs for MD3 took several days alone!
Here's a few work-in-progress screenshots until a beta is available later this month.
The screenshots show various combinations of material You in dark and light mode. There's also to the ability to combine a light theme with dark bars for a look close to the current Light + dark bars theme (last screenshot). Note that dynamic tinting of the Now Playing screen based on cover colors is not yet implemented (as in the current version) but this is planned.8
