Let's brainstorm..Setting up MinimServer to feed a USB DAC

[PeteManchester]

Hi Ciprian,

Thanks for testing...

There's a few issues I've not seen before..

Quote:1. Adding albums to the playlist seems a bit slow. Here are some results (using BubbleUPnP running on a Galaxy Note 10.1):

I'ts not the quickest at adding tracks to the playlist, but I tested using Kinsky and it took about 12secs to add 100 tracks.

Can you set the option

Code:

log.file.level

to 'debug' in the app.properties, then can you send a clean log file from startup until after you have added the tracks to the playlist.

Quote:2. When adding large multi-disk albums (over 50 tracks or so), BubbleUPnP does not populate the playlist nor the Now Playing screen. The music starts playing and I can even jump to the next track but I don't see any metadata, progress bar or album art. I don't see this behaviour with Bubble's built in renderer, even when I add the album through a stand-alone BubbleUPnP control point on my phone.

Again please can you set the log level to debug and then provide a clean set of log files from startup until after adding the tracks to the playlist.

I'm still on the trial version of BubbleUPnP and so can only add a max if 16 tracks. I plan to get the full version over xmas..

Quote:4. When I was initially testing over Wifi, it appeared that sometimes the Wifi connection dropped when adding large albums to the playlist (as in 2. above)

I've not seen this before, I had some issues with my Wifi dongle going into power management mode, but I wouldn't expect that to happen whilst adding tracks. You could try to disable Power Management

Disable Power Management

Code:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

And add the lines:

_wlanexist=$(ifconfig | grep wlan) || true
if [ "$_wlanexist" ]; then
    iwconfig wlan0 power off
fi

Quote:5. When seeking through flac files (16 bit, 44.1 KHz), and the end of the track is reached, playback does not advance to the next track

You could try the beta version of MediaPlayer (0.0.0.7) If you download from GitHub again, it is in the 'build/beta' folder. I made some changes to the code which might help with this.

Quote:Using Kinsky v. 4.3.17 running on OS X Mavericks

If possible can you also try the Windows version of Kinsky.

Quote:Using AssetControl v. 1.0.0.5 on Windows XP I cannot even see the renderer.

Can you check if you have the option

Code:

enableAVTransport

Set to 'true'.

I haven't documented it very well but that should enable the AVTransport service that Asset needs.

Quote:I am a but confused as I thought the mp3 format could not do gapless?!)

It is MPD that does all the hard work for the gapless playback, all I do is monitor the time left playing for the current track and when it reaches a configurable time I put the next track into the MPD playlist and it takes care of the gapless playback..

PS. The beta version of MediaPlayer will also fix an issue with Kinsky showing a strange volume level for DACs that don't support Volume Control such as the UD110.


Thanks again,

Pete.