[APP][7.0+][v4.3.6] BubbleUPnP - UPnP/DLNA/Chromecast Control Point and Renderer

[GLDMGLDM]

Hello,
I'm having a strange issue with the Playlist. When adding full albums to the playlist either from a NAS or Qobuz, the first song always appears as the last one in the playlist and so the rest of the songs do not play, even though they appear in the correct order.

For Example:
I add an album with 5 songs on it, the order in which the album will be populated in the playlist is 2,3,4,5,1. Track number 1 will play (which is the first tack in the album) and then nothing will play.

I am using a Lumin D2 as the renderer and Version 3.5.2.2 of the application.

Thanks,
G

 

[bubbleguuum]

Hello,
I'm having a strange issue with the Playlist. When adding full albums to the playlist either from a NAS or Qobuz, the first song always appears as the last one in the playlist and so the rest of the songs do not play, even though they appear in the correct order.

For Example:
I add an album with 5 songs on it, the order in which the album will be populated in the playlist is 2,3,4,5,1. Track number 1 will play (which is the first tack in the album) and then nothing will play.

I am using a Lumin D2 as the renderer and Version 3.5.2.2 of the application.

Thanks,
G

@GLDMGLDM

This issue is a consequence of v3.5.2 on OpenHome renderers adding first track, playing it, then adding following tracks. That's for not having to wait until all tracks are added to the Playlist tab (which can be long on OpenHome renderers) before playing the first track . v3.5.2.2 fixed this issue for Melco renderers but apparently, Lumin renderers have it too. Normally this issue should not happen on well behave renderers, but on some of them there is a timing issue. I will send you a test version with a possible fix.
In the meantime you can simply enqueue the tracks (+ icon in top bar) instead of enqueue + play, and manually play the first track.

 

[pranna]

I'm running Foobar2000 on my windows 10 laptop with the foo_upnp renderer-server plugin added. When using the Bubble app on my phone the Foobar renderer and server show up and I can play and browse the library on my home network. When I go to a different location and use a different network the Foobar renderer and server do not show up in the Bubble app. I can't figure out what the difference is between the 2 networks? And why the Foorbar server and renderer are not listed?

Fixed it. "Function Discovery Network Host" service was not running. It had to be set to automatic start.

 

[media_demon]

Hi,
I apologise if this has been mentioned before but I couldn't find any recent reference to it.

I don't like the Composer field showing on the Playing Now screen. In version 3.5.2 it is always appending to the Artist field which makes the display messy when there are many composers associated with a particular track. I know this feature is useful for Classical music but I would prefer not to see it for rock music etc.

I'm sure there used to be an option in the Playing Now Settings to enable or disable this, or is it hidden somewhere else now?

Any chance we could have this option in the Playing Now settings?

Thanks.

 

[bubbleguuum]

Hi,
I apologise if this has been mentioned before but I couldn't find any recent reference to it.

I don't like the Composer field showing on the Playing Now screen. In version 3.5.2 it is always appending to the Artist field which makes the display messy when there are many composers associated with a particular track. I know this feature is useful for Classical music but I would prefer to to see it for rock music etc.

I'm sure there used to be an option in the Playing Now Settings to enable or disable this, or is it hidden somewhere else now?

Any chance we could have this option in the Playing Now settings?

Thanks.

@media_demon

Will look into adding a setting for it. Although there's waaaay too much settings already...
Artist and Composer are also aggregated in Library, for album lists.

 

[Edudomo]

Playlists that are created in Bubbleupnp get corrupted easily and can't always be repaired, at best it's very complicated to fix if you're not an advanced user. I've suffered the loss of my valuable playlists twice, and it's a bad experience, there was a lot of work on this.

Would it be possible to create the playlists directly in Tidal?

Thanks for your help, your app is without a doubt the best app I use.

Edudomo

 

[media_demon]

@media_demon

Will look into adding a setting for it. Although there's waaaay too much settings already...
Artist and Composer are also aggregated in Library, for album lists.

Thanks for the quick response. I did notice the artist/composer aggregation in Library, but there is a setting to disable it in that instance. It would be great to have the same functionality in Playing Now if it's not too much trouble.

I know there are al lot of settings already but it's the ability to configure the app down to that level that makes it so usable.

Keep up the good work, BubbleUPnP is definitely the best DNLA app by far and it just keeps getting better!

 

[bubbleguuum]

Playlists that are created in Bubbleupnp get corrupted easily and can't always be repaired, at best it's very complicated to fix if you're not an advanced user. I've suffered the loss of my valuable playlists twice, and it's a bad experience, there was a lot of work on this.

Would it be possible to create the playlists directly in Tidal?

Thanks for your help, your app is without a doubt the best app I use.

Edudomo

@Edudomo

There is no plan to add support for editing TIDAL playlists. However, since the latest version, Saved Playlists can now be exported to XSPF, an inter-operable playlist format. You can find the export action in 3 dot menu of a 'Saved Playlist' among other locations. This can be used in conjunction with Soundiiz to import the playlist into major streaming services.

Next version will also have an improvement for Saved Playlists containing Android media store items, in the case the media store data is rebuilt or the Saved Playlists are transferred on a different Android device that has the same local media files on local storage. In these scenarios, the Saved Playlists will be updated to point to the correct items in the media store.

 

[Edudomo]

@Edudomo

There is no plan to add support for editing TIDAL playlists. However, since the latest version, Saved Playlists can now be exported to XSPF, an inter-operable playlist format. You can find the export action in 3 dot menu of a 'Saved Playlist' among other locations. This can be used in conjunction with Soundiiz to import the playlist into major streaming services.

Next version will also have an improvement for Saved Playlists containing Android media store items, in the case the media store data is rebuilt or the Saved Playlists are transferred on a different Android device that has the same local media files on local storage. In these scenarios, the Saved Playlists will be updated to point to the correct items in the media store.

Perfect, I'm going to try the conversion to Tidal of the playlists, it does not seem a very fast method, but I understand the impossibility of creating the lists directly in the provider.

 

[dez93_2000]

Hey bud, found a weird issue today. One album in my NAS library is ordered alphabetically by title even though sort order is set to default which says "Title/Artist" in the browsing settings on my media server, but it goes by track number for all (AFAIK) other folders of albums. Track numbers are present in the ID3 tags and the files & tags look normal compared to other album folders of mp3s which sort by track number. I prefixed the track numbers with "0" for the single digits and reloaded successfully but the order remains. Any thoughts as to why this might be?
Thanks in advance!

oh ps:

> "Although there's waaaay too much settings already..." you can never have too many settings! This is part of what makes your app so great dude!

Cheers!

 

[Druschii]

@Druschii

The java process is running out of memory.

- how much RAM does your NAS have ?
- are you using version 0.9-update40 which was released a few weeks ago ? This version fixes important memory leaks on server soft restarts which could cause this issue. Unlike other updates, it requires a full reinstall of the BubbleUPnP Server syno package. So if the version displayed in the web Status tab is 0.9-update40 but you did not reinstall the Syno package, make sure to do it

So, I did a full cleanup of BubbleUPnP Server but the out of memory error has remained after a clean reinstall.
Any idea how I can trace this problem?

 

[dark0shark]

On a redmi 9 the volume hard keys at the right side of the smartphone do not work, when BubbleUPnP is running in the background. Normal behavior?

 

[.:Stefan:.]

Hi there,

I am trying to get it work on my Synology DS216+ II NAS (DSM 6.2.4-25556) inside Docker with the official Docker container but it always fails. Doesn't matter if I configure via CLI as described in the docu here or if I do it via Docker GUI.

Here is an Docker error log as export. Would be happy for any useful hints.

[main            ] INFO     - 24:00:00.140 - Main                        : launcher version: 1.0

[main            ] INFO     - 24:00:00.293 - Main                        : first time setup: downloading BubbleUPnPServer.jar, please wait...

fips - softokn: crypto test failed - aborting

#

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

#

#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f8898f59927, pid=1, tid=7

#

# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (11.0.11+9) (build 11.0.11+9-suse-1.1-x8664)

# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (11.0.11+9-suse-1.1-x8664, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, serial gc, linux-amd64)

# Problematic frame:

# C  [libc.so.6+0x26927]  abort+0x1d9

#

# Core dump will be written. Default location: Core dumps may be processed with "/usr/syno/sbin/syno-dump-core.sh /volume1 %e %p %s" (or dumping to /opt/bubbleupnpserver/core.1)

#

# An error report file with more information is saved as:

# /tmp/hs_err_pid1.log

#

# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:

#   https://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp

# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.

# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.

Thanks and BR
Stefan

 

[bubbleguuum]

@.:Stefan:.

This has been reported by another user. Seems to be a weird quirk on Syno, not always happening. There is no fix that I could find, but I plan to make alternate Docker images based on the OpenJ9 JVM instead of OpenJDK, so maybe it will fix it.

 

[bubbleguuum]

On a redmi 9 the volume hard keys at the right side of the smartphone do not work, when BubbleUPnP is running in the background. Normal behavior?

@dark0shark

Yes it is normal: hardware volume buttons only work when the app is in the foreground, unless you are controlling a Chromecast or local playback.
It would be possible to support other renderers (UPnP AV / OpenHome) but requires tying into the audio session system and it is a bit convoluted.

 

[bubbleguuum]

So, I did a full cleanup of BubbleUPnP Server but the out of memory error has remained after a clean reinstall.
Any idea how I can trace this problem?

@Druschii

What's the specs of your Syno NAS, especially in term of memory ?
Other than that you can send me (bubblesoftproducts@gmail.com) the BubbleUPnP Server log files after it goes out of memory.
Files are named BubbleUPnPServer.log.0 and BubbleUPnPServer.log.1 and found in the /volume1/homes/bubbleupnp/appData folder.

 

[bubbleguuum]

New v3.5.3p3 beta available and pushed to Play Store beta subscribers. Download APK

The big change is the update to targetSdkVersion 30 (Android 11), resulting in support for Scoped Storage on Android 11+ devices.
This really requires testing. Full details in the app in More > Gear icon > Version > Changelog.



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[.:Stefan:.]

@.:Stefan:.

This has been reported by another user. Seems to be a weird quirk on Syno, not always happening. There is no fix that I could find, but I plan to make alternate Docker images based on the OpenJ9 JVM instead of OpenJDK, so maybe it will fix it.

Hi,

alright, thanks for your F/B.
In the meantime, I tried the BubbleUPnP Docker image from "icebear8" and it works like a charm, no idea why but it's also using actual server, so I'm gonna stay with this for now as it seems to do its job well.

 

[bubbleguuum]

Hi,

alright, thanks for your F/B.
In the meantime, I tried the BubbleUPnP Docker image from "icebear8" and it works like a charm, no idea why but it's also using actual server, so I'm gonna stay with this for now as it seems to do its job well.

@.:Stefan:.

The icebear8 image works because it use a different Java runtime that is not crashing.

I've made a new container based on the OpenJ9 runtime. Can you test it and report if it works ? As a bonus it uses less memory.
To try it, retrieve image bubblesoftapps/bubbleupnpserver-openj9 (instead of bubblesoftapps/bubbleupnpserver)

 

[.:Stefan:.]

@.:Stefan:.

The icebear8 image works because it use a different Java runtime that is not crashing.

I've made a new container based on the OpenJ9 runtime. Can you test it and report if it works ? As a bonus it uses less memory.
To try it, retrieve image bubblesoftapps/bubbleupnpserver-openj9 (instead of bubblesoftapps/bubbleupnpserver)

I'm happy to test but till now I cannot see it in the list of images when searching for "bubbleupnpserver". It throws 27 results but none with the image name mentioned by you.