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

[mxbishop]

Try this to force The Android media scanner to rescan all media.
This will only work if it rescan sd card media. which it may or may not depending on alignment of stars:


- go into Android Settings > Apps (or equivalent with app list), then 3
dot menu > Show system apps
- in the list, locate the 'Media Storage' app and tap on it
- go into the 'Storage' section then tap button 'Clear data'
- reboot your device. Android will rescan all your media. This can take
a while.
=> check if the album art is now visible

Well, the results are in: On my old Galaxy s7 (Android 8), running Bubbleupnp 3.6.8.2 (arm64-v8a), I was able to delete the Media Storage data, and reboot the phone, as you suggested. And, Bubbleupnp can now pass album artwork (music mp3's with embedded artwork on an sd card) to my Pioneer SC-68 receiver - as it has always been able to do in the past. That's good. However, on my new Galaxy s20 (Android 12), I cannot delete the Media Storage data, as the app no longer allows a user to do this. What I was able to do was remove the sd card, reinstall the latest version of Bubbleupnp, and then, reformat the sd card using my PC, and put a fresh copy of my music files on it. I then reinserted the sd card, and turned on the phone - expecting this action would force an Android media rescan of the sd card. The s20 is also running the same version of Bubbleupnp as the s7. The result: No artwork being passed to my receiver. :-( The only conclusion I can come to, at this point, is that there is something in Android 12 that is preventing the artwork from being passed, or all of my efforts with the sd card, did not actually force a media rescan of the sd card - and I'm stuck with a media database in my s20 that is somehow degraded or corrupted. Hopefully I'll be able to come up with some more ideas to try out - but right now, I have none. Again, thanks for your suggestions. I'll continue to work on this.

 

[bubbleguuum]

Well, the results are in: On my old Galaxy s7 (Android 8), running Bubbleupnp 3.6.8.2 (arm64-v8a), I was able to delete the Media Storage data, and reboot the phone, as you suggested. And, Bubbleupnp can now pass album artwork (music mp3's with embedded artwork on an sd card) to my Pioneer SC-68 receiver - as it has always been able to do in the past. That's good. However, on my new Galaxy s20 (Android 12), I cannot delete the Media Storage data, as the app no longer allows a user to do this. What I was able to do was remove the sd card, reinstall the latest version of Bubbleupnp, and then, reformat the sd card using my PC, and put a fresh copy of my music files on it. I then reinserted the sd card, and turned on the phone - expecting this action would force an Android media rescan of the sd card. The s20 is also running the same version of Bubbleupnp as the s7. The result: No artwork being passed to my receiver. :-( The only conclusion I can come to, at this point, is that there is something in Android 12 that is preventing the artwork from being passed, or all of my efforts with the sd card, did not actually force a media rescan of the sd card - and I'm stuck with a media database in my s20 that is somehow degraded or corrupted. Hopefully I'll be able to come up with some more ideas to try out - but right now, I have none. Again, thanks for your suggestions. I'll continue to work on this.

@mxbishop

A possible solution is to install adb on a desktop computer and while connected run this command and reboot:

adb shell pm clear com.google.android.providers.media.module

 

[mxbishop]

@mxbishop

A possible solution is to install adb on a desktop computer and while connected run this command and reboot:

adb shell pm clear com.google.android.providers.media.module

Thank you for the idea. Funny you should mention this, because I was just installing adb on my PC and trying out a few things. I just ran the command you recommended, and adb reported "Success." I rebooted the phone. When I launched Bubbleupnp and went to the "Local and Cloud" library, I could see that the music database was reloading. I waited a little while for it to finish - so I could see all of my music. On the phone, all of the album artwork is there. However, when I connect to my renderer, a Pioneer SC-68 receiver, via DLNA - I am still not getting the album artwork showing up while my music is playing. I also tried clearing the Media Storage data on the phone using the method you suggested, and clearing the cache and data of Bubbleupnp, and rebooting. After waiting for everything to rescan, still, no joy. At least I think I am properly rescanning the Android Media Storage now. I really thought this was going to work. Same version of Bubbleupnp running on Android 8 (Galaxy s7) works fine. On Android 12 (Galaxy s20), no joy. Once again, I'm out of ideas of things to try. Whatever this problem is, it has something to do with Android 12, and the way the artwork is handled during DLNA streaming. When I used Bubbleupnp to connect to an Asset media database on my PC, and stream music from Asset to the Pioneer receiver, I do see the artwork. That's about as far as my thinking takes me at this point. It's Android 12, on a Galaxy s20, using locally stored music files. The music plays fine, but no artwork is passing to the renderer. Just seems weird. Probably something in Android 12 that is not set up properly, or that Bubbleupnp is unaware of. BTW, I also tried putting some music on the phone's internal storage, and not on the sd card, and it has the same problem of no artwork being passed to the renderer. So it's not an sd card issue. Again, thanks for the help - I wish I could puzzle this one out. It is a mystery!

 

[m.morcielago]

Hello dear developer
Thank you for this awesome app

I have a problem with casting MKV movies on Google cast on Android TV
Casting is so smooth but when I want to cast a MKV with internal subtitle , the app cannot show the subtitle
I have to open subtitle separately
Is there any setting for it?

 

[bubbleguuum]

Hello dear developer
Thank you for this awesome app

I have a problem with casting MKV movies on Google cast on Android TV
Casting is so smooth but when I want to cast a MKV with internal subtitle , the app cannot show the subtitle
I have to open subtitle separately
Is there any setting for it?

@m.morcielago

If the embedded subtitle is stored in textual form (srt, ass, ...) in the MKV, you must extract it once prior to playing the video, using 3 dot menu on video > Extract embedded subtitle. It will be associated automatically to the video. If the embedded subtitle is stored in an image based format, it cannot be used, and you must revert to associating a subtitle externally (either with opensubtitles.org or a manually selected .srt that you downloaded by other means).

 

[Snowknight26]

BubbleUPnP Server 0.9-update43 now available:

Changelog | BubbleUPnP Server

0.9-update49 (Feb 17th 2024) # Android # this version is available for BubbleUPnP Server for Android (previous version available on Android was 0.9-update46) updated BubbleUPnP Server for Android APK to version 1.2.4.1 which updates FFmpeg to v6.1 (needed for GPU transcoding, see below) Added...

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@Snowknight26 : it should fix Windows sleeping, that was totally buggy and that I revamped.

Been running this version for several months and the issue just happened again. There must be an edge case somewhere even with the new code. I had logging disabled, unfortunately, so no log this time. Will try to reproduce again now that logging is enabled.

 

[mxbishop]

@mxbishop

A possible solution is to install adb on a desktop computer and while connected run this command and reboot:

adb shell pm clear com.google.android.providers.media.module

A new discovery with my issue of not seeing album artwork when using an Android 12 phone (Samsung Galaxy S20), using Bubbleupnp/DLNA to render to a Pioneer SC-68 audio receiver. I've been using music stored on the phone (MP3s with embedded artwork). When using "Local and Cloud" and selecting the "Music folder", the audio receiver displays no artwork. However, if I select the "SD card" path, and browse to the directory containing my folders of music, and then select a folder containing an album, I do see the artwork coming through to the audio receiver. I'm running licensed Bubbleupnp 3.6.8.2 (arm64-v8a). I'm not an Android genius, so I don't know exactly what I've discovered here, except that it appears using the Android 12 repository of media metadata is where this issue lies. In my previous phone setup, I had a Galaxy S7 running Android 8, with the latest licensed version of Bubbleupnp, and did not run into this issue using the "Music" folder from "Local and Cloud" library. To me, this is beginning to look like an Android 12 issue, with the way they are building their media metadata database. Any thoughts on this? Thanks for thinking about this issue.

 

[krilok]

Just to let the devs know music ticker (track info) on ambient display is acting up again.

I mentioned this a while ago, and after a Bubbleupnp update it worked again, but since around two months ago it stopped working all of a sudden, and even after today's app release it doesn't show any info at all on track changes...

If of any help, I'm running android 12.1 on two different devices (Crdroid custom rom), and both have the same issue. However, other media apps display info just fine...

 

[bubbleguuum]

Just to let the devs know music ticker (track info) on ambient display is acting up again.

I mentioned this a while ago, and after a Bubbleupnp update it worked again, but since around two months ago it stopped working all of a sudden, and even after today's app release it doesn't show any info at all on track changes...

If of any help, I'm running android 12.1 on two different devices (Crdroid custom rom), and both have the same issue. However, other media apps display info just fine...

@krilok

I tested on my Pixel 4a running Android 13 and the ambient display is displaying track info.
However, after some digging, I found out that if you have disabled 'More > Gear icon > Android 11+ notification' (it is enabled by default), then the ambient display will not show track info because the media notification is not associated to the media session (so the notification is displayed standalone as it was pre Android 11, rather than under the quick toggles, grouped with other media notifications).

 

[krilok]

@krilok

I tested on my Pixel 4a running Android 13 and the ambient display is displaying track info.
However, after some digging, I found out that if you have disabled 'More > Gear icon > Android 11+ notification' (it is enabled by default), then the ambient display will not show track info because the media notification is not associated to the media session (so the notification is displayed standalone as it was pre Android 11, rather than under the quick toggles, grouped with other media notifications).

Thank you for the reply, but A11+ notification is actually active on both devices.

I've done some troubleshooting, though, and it seems that if the phone's locked and resting while BubbleUpnp is playing in the background, if the current track finishes playing and the next one starts, no track info is displayed on Ambient display. However, if I manually skip to the next track (I've got long-press volume button to skip track active on the rom I'm using), track info is displayed for just a brief second and then disappears completely. If I long-press again to skip track, same thing happens; info appears for a second and then disappears...

So, to sum it up, if I play music and don't touch the phone at all, upon 'automatic' track changes nothing is displayed on ambient screen. But if I manually skip tracks (long-press volume button), then only info will appear but only for around a second or so, and only for the track that's started playing after button press.

 

[pospichalales]

Hi,
I have trouble loading my gallery, I have there almost 10 thousands of items and it takes several minutes to load.
Is it possible to tweak it? Or at least turning off thumbnails and keeping just file names could help.

Galaxy S21, Android 12

 

[bubbleguuum]

Thank you for the reply, but A11+ notification is actually active on both devices.

I've done some troubleshooting, though, and it seems that if the phone's locked and resting while BubbleUpnp is playing in the background, if the current track finishes playing and the next one starts, no track info is displayed on Ambient display. However, if I manually skip to the next track (I've got long-press volume button to skip track active on the rom I'm using), track info is displayed for just a brief second and then disappears completely. If I long-press again to skip track, same thing happens; info appears for a second and then disappears...

So, to sum it up, if I play music and don't touch the phone at all, upon 'automatic' track changes nothing is displayed on ambient screen. But if I manually skip tracks (long-press volume button), then only info will appear but only for around a second or so, and only for the track that's started playing after button press.

@krilok

Understood.

Can you confirm that you have scrobbling disabled in Settings > Control > Scrobble method (towards the end of the page). If not, check if disabling scrobbling fixes it.

Also, to which renderer are you playing to : local renderer (Your Android device), UPnP/DLNA renderer, Chromecast, OpenHome renderer... ?

If instead of the ambient display, you display the lock screen, does the BubbleUPnP media notification shows proper metadata on track changes ?

 

[bubbleguuum]

Hi,
I have trouble loading my gallery, I have there almost 10 thousands of items and it takes several minutes to load.
Is it possible to tweak it? Or at least turning off thumbnails and keeping just file names could help.

Galaxy S21, Android 12

@pospichalales

Loading folders with thousands of entries is problematic in BubbleUPnP as it will take forever and use lots of RAM. It's not super practical either a list with thousands items. I would suggest to split this huge folder into sub-folders.

 

[krilok]

Thanks for the reply.

- Scrobbling is disabled (has always been)
- I'm playing music on my android phones via Minimserver installed on my Qnap NAS
- Yes, lockscreen album art and media info are displayed correctly.

 

[Mr. Odd]

You fixed my multiple covers for an album issue - the "Force Cover Refresh" option now works as expected when using the Bubble server, many thanks!

 

[krilok]

@krilok

Understood.

Can you confirm that you have scrobbling disabled in Settings > Control > Scrobble method (towards the end of the page). If not, check if disabling scrobbling fixes it.

Also, to which renderer are you playing to : local renderer (Your Android device), UPnP/DLNA renderer, Chromecast, OpenHome renderer... ?

If instead of the ambient display, you display the lock screen, does the BubbleUPnP media notification shows proper metadata on track changes ?

Thanks for the reply.

- Scrobbling is disabled (has always been)
- I'm playing music on my android phones via Minimserver installed on my Qnap NAS
- Yes, lockscreen album art and media info are displayed correctly.

Sorry for the double post...

 

[Snowknight26]

Been running this version for several months and the issue just happened again. There must be an edge case somewhere even with the new code. I had logging disabled, unfortunately, so no log this time. Will try to reproduce again now that logging is enabled.

@bubbleguuum

I was able to reproduce the sleep issue again with proper logging.

 

[bubbleguuum]

@bubbleguuum

I was able to reproduce the sleep issue again with proper logging.

@Snowknight26

Thanks for the log file.
It shows that BubbleUPnP Server allows sleeping, as the last sleep logging lines are:

[qtp1795975528-1500 (1500) ] INFO - 30:38:28.312 - .Main$d : SystemSleepManager: allow sleeping
[qtp1795975528-1500 (1500) ] INFO - 30:38:28.312 - .Main$d : SystemSleepManager: allow sleeping (0)

There would be a problem if there was a "prevent sleeping" line without ever an "allow sleeping" line, but that's not the case.

However, I wonder if it is not logging to file + the JVM writing to disk periodic performance data that prevents sleeping. That has been found to be the case for Docker containers on Linux, but that only prevented a spinning HDD to go to sleep.

To test this, go into the installation directory and edit BubbleUPnPServer.ini to add these lines
disabling JVM perf data writing and writing the log file respectively:

vmarg.5=-XX:-UsePerfData
arg.2=-nologfile

Then restart the BubbleUPnP Server Windows service. There will obviously no log file in that case.

 

[Nik76s]

Unfortunately Play/Shuffle play on on whole Tidal "My Mix" folder adding videos to the playlist again in recent BubbleUPnP releases when remore UPnP renderer selected.
I'm using Odroid SBC with latest upmpdcli as a renderer.
Current workaround is selecting Local Renderer, then Tidal->My Mix->Play then switch back to upmpdcli UPnP renderer once local playlist created.
This is quite inconvenient.
Could you please add an option in UPnP renderer setting which disables video playback and excludes videos from the playlists?
Thanks!

The above mentioned issue with adding videos to "My Mix" playist was fixed for upmpdcli renderer earlier, but I faced the same problem when playing Tidal "My Mix" folder on Chord Poly DLNA renderer.
Could you please add an option to disable video playback and exclude videos for selected UPnP/DLNA renderers?

Please also kindly add "My New Arrivals" Tidal playlist to My Mix
Thank you!

 

[bubbleguuum]

The above mentioned issue with adding videos to "My Mix" playist was fixed for upmpdcli renderer earlier, but I faced the same problem when playing Tidal "My Mix" folder on Chord Poly DLNA renderer.
Could you please add an option to disable video playback and exclude videos for selected UPnP/DLNA renderers?

@Nik76s

I manually hardcoded upmpdcli to never play videos. Will look into adding a per rendering setting to make it more general. This happens with the Chord Poly because it declares supporting some videos mime-types, probably video/mp4 (you can see the list in Now Playing tab > tap on floating cast button > 3 dot menu on Chord Poly > Info).

Please also kindly add "My New Arrivals" Tidal playlist to My Mix

I don't think there is a documented API for this.
But you can share it from the TIDAL app to BubbleUPnP: in the TIDAL app go into the "My New Arrivals" section, tap share icon, then "More...", then select BubbleUPnP in the list.