The control app thread

[Mike48]

About Android control points....

My control app for 8 or 9 years has been BubbleUPnP. It was the best I tried back then, and it continues to be very good. It has some features I really appreciate, including accessing my library over the Web (issue raised in another thread today) and accessing booklets served by Minim Server. However, increasingly I am running into problems that detract from my enjoyment.

The most severe issue is that my Auralic Aries G1 sometimes crashes when adding a Qobuz track from BubbleUPnP. ONLY from BubbleUPnP, and only when BubbleUPnP accesses the Qobuz library directly, not when I share a track to BubbleUPnP. The developer tells me it's an Auralic problem; Auralic has been unable to replicate it, and I'm up the creek.

A minor issue is that when changing from one library to another several times, BubbleUPnP sometimes gets confused, and I have to reload the libraries or switch to a third library and back again.

Because of the Qobuz problem, I tried Lumin lately. It seems quite good in many ways. It adds Qobuz tracks without problem, but I find its interface confusing. I can't figure out how many screens it has and how to get back to the one I want. Features (like the "Q" for Qobuz button) seem to disappear, and I can't get them back.

I also tried HiFiCast, and I liked it very much. I wrote the developer, but he had no plans to support OpenHome. A pity.