It is a great app that makes my media play all around the house, but…
I have a PS3 Media Server on my HP Elite Book notebook and use this for streaming and transcoding AV (my audio library is in FLAC) to renderers. Two of them are android based devices: Sony Tablet S and Samsung Galaxy S+, both with Bubble on board. And this is where my little problem starts. In the library of both android units every track of each album is doubled (both have FLAC displayed under the track title), although it appears only once in for example Sony PS3 library or on other devices. In addition Bubble on Samsung does not play FLAC properly: there is some digital hiss from time to time and it sometimes gets stuck and doesn’t play at all. Strange thing is that when FLAC files are stored on the SD card, they play OK using for example PowerAmp. Bubble on Sony Tablet S plays FLAC ok.
Yesterday strange thing happened, which I can’t explain: I didn’t change ANY settings, neither on PS3 Media Serv. or Bubble in Samsung, and when I launched Bubble and tried to play music from my HP FLAC library, all track where present only once and when played, the WAV extension was displayed and it went with no problems. ??? In the same time on Sony there was still two copies of each track, both in FLAC. Unfortunately, after another restart of Bubble on Samsung it displayed again two FLAC versions of each track. In desperation I set “always transcode FLAC” on the PS3 Media Server. After that one of these doubled in library tracks appeared MP3 but it didn’t play at all, and… I gave up.
Question 1: can I make Bubble on SGalaxy S+ play WAV from FLAC encoded files (it happened for unknown reason and worked fine)?
Question 2: can I make Bubble on SGS+ play FLAC without problems?
Question 3: why does Bubble shows each track from the library twice (does it come from PS3 Media?)
If anyone can HELP I’ll be more then thankful.
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Hi all,
I've been searching through the forums for the possible video players available for my TP. I've so far only found two (other then windows media player).
Core player http://www.coreplayer.com - Which from the site seems to play a decent amount of file types. Have not heard performance wise how this stands up. Also unfortunately has a cost associated.
Divx player http://labs.divx.com/MobileCommunity- Which I've looked at and is by no means a one player fits all. Only can play divx files.
Are there any other players out there that are free that are a one-stop-shop?
Or are their codecs for the windows media player? (have not been able to locate any)
Thanks
TCPMP was the open source media player that spawned the Core Player.
I think you can still get it. Sure its probably not up to date like Core Player, but it does play everything you need it to play.
http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/
Hello,
First post. I have some questions.
1. I select album and press play in Bubble and it plays in my renderer (Denon Piccolo network music player) HiFi setup. I dont have to switch ON my Denon at all, Bubble does it automatically. Now, my problem is I want to switch OFF the Denon also after listening to music. I am unable to do it in Bubble.
2. I want volume control in the software itself and not the hardware volume. The hardware volume is not very quick it takes much time.
3. I have FLAC files in Netgear NAS. So, if i select Local Renderer (Lennovo tablet), IS the Bubble playing the exact FLAC files or is it down sampling and playing in mp3 format?
Please help. Tx.
Hello,
I am on a neverending quest to get Spotify to play my local files gapless.
I have some concert rips and some gapless albums that simply aren't on Spotify. Neither Google Play Music nor Spotify will play them gapless. Worse, GPM won't play ANYTHING gapless, from their library or not. I'm very serious about my music and this is a problem. i've been reading that GPM playing gapless depends on the phone itself, mostly Nexus can do it. I wondered if anybody here has a S7 and Google Play Music and would be willing to do a test for me?
1. Download not stream a gapless album (say, Madonna "Confessions Tour", Mike Oldfield "Tubular Bells 2003", etc.)
2. Play it on headphones
3. Are there gaps between songs? (Half a second or so, but still)
My Xperia Z5 Compact can't play GPM content gapless, it plays Spotify library content gapless, but not local files I sync.
Thank you very much to anyone who can be bothered to check that for me! I'm changing phones in a month and I would like to get one that won't make my musical OCD triggered every few minutes.
I was about to report something similar.
Actually, I have ripped Madonna's Confession Tour and transfered it locally on my phone.
Both GPM and Samsung Music refuse to play them gaplessly.
On the contrary, apps that use somekind of dedicated/internal decoding do play them gaplessly, for example Foobar.
I strongly believe there is something on the kernel or google's native decoders that gets lost in the chain of audio playback when it comes to gapless playback, like the implementation chain is breaking or there's simply no native gapless implementation.
This sucks, if you do a google search you'll see LOTS of people being frustrated with the issue, reporting it and google simply ignores them.
I am p*ssed off aswell, I find it very embarassing that at 2017 not every device can do native gapless out of the box atleast on formats that support it natively, a day that our phones do so many stuff that a decade ago we needed like 20 separate devices to do the same stuff yet something like this seems like it's either not important or too hard to do.
VIRGIN KLM said:
there's simply no native gapless implementation.
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This is correct
You can however make an app that plays gapless without
VIRGIN KLM said:
somekind of dedicated/internal decoding
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That app would internally use 2 players, when the first one finishes its song, the second one starts and when that one finishes, the first one starts again etc.
waterdaan said:
This is correct
You can however make an app that plays gapless without
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It is not entirely true though. There are devices that most of them run on CM based or pure AOSP that actually gapless works with the same combination of apps.
For example:
My old HTC EVO 3D has gapless playback on CM based roms with GPM.
My Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 has actual gapless on GPM but not on Samsung Music.
My dad's Nexus 5 needs to have enabled the equaliser for gapless to work.
There is somekind of chain from the audio file until the audio reaches your ears that one of the links break.
I'm just trying to figure out what.
@raytheblacksmith and @waterdaan or everybody else that may care, I can confirm that Nougat fixed the gapless playback issue!
All tracks I'm playing with Samsung Music are gapless now!
Hello, I hope this is the right forum for my question. I searched already but apparently there is not an answer.
I listen digital music using j River Media Center and I installed Gizmo android app on a tablet as a remote controller and also to listen locally on a headphones. Gizmo is limited to compress music (up to 320Kbps) so I searched for a player supporting the lossless and HD music I archived on my library. Apparently Bubbleupnp is a solution, because Gizmo can select this player instead off the internal one. I bought therefore Bubbleupnp and after the configuration everything work well. The only (great) problem is that when the app plays HD music by-passed by Gizmo on the screen is shown as MP3/48KHz or MP3/96KHz. Of course I disable the transcoding with lossless file. Playing instead with Bubblupnp the same song is displayed simply as "Flac" without any other info.
So the questions are: Am I really listening to transcoded music and, if yes, I how I must configure the app to listen lossless? Or: Is it a misleading message? or, again: in this configuration is impossible to listen in lossless and/or HD mode?
Many thanks in advance.
Maurizio
I was previously the owner of a Samsung Galaxy 10, and had a library of over 2500 songs. This phone had no trouble playing any of them. Now my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra keeps popping up a message that it is unable to play that song, and plays the next one instead. I thought that because I was using a free music player app that this might be the cause, so I downloaded the Samsung Music Player. It still will not play some songs.
I'm also a bit annoyed that the Samsung Music player will only allow a playlist of 1000 songs maximum. So I now have three Playlists, and must cycle between them. Sure, I could remove 1500 songs, or go through the whole lot and divide them into genre, but I shouldn't have to.
Can anyone tell me why my phone won't play some music (yet my much older phone coped with it easily).
It's possible that those files got corrupted when you transfered them from your old phone. If that's the case, then you'll have to re-copy those files.
What is the file extension on the songs that won’t play? WMA, Windows Media Audio files are not supported by many player apps. I use the Poweramp app on my phone which plays everything I have in my media library.
+1 for PowerAmp.
+2 Poweramp paid version