Searching workarounds to Kinsky and Kazoo bugs

[eseb63]

Hello,
I encounter a bug for each, but didn't find a solution and the Linn forum is closed : do others have the same problems or found a workaround ?

Kinsky (Windows version) : when playing an album or a work having movements, it stops after the first track : i have to request playing for each other track.

Kazoo (Windows version) : multiple spaces are discarded in the title to keep only one ; for example, with this displayFormat setting Title.displayFormat={$Title^$Movement_Rating^__________[^]__________ "$Movement_Art-Rating^__________(^)} spacing is ignored.

(i had to use "__________" instead of spaces because they are also discarded here)

any idea ?

Remark: i use Foobar2000 as renderer (with BubbleUpnp Server for Kazoo, to create an OpenHome renderer)

[simbun]

(16-06-2025 20:45)eseb63 Wrote:  Kazoo (Windows version) : multiple spaces are discarded in the title to keep only one ; for example, with this displayFormat setting Title.displayFormat={$Title^$Movement_Rating^__________[^]__________ "$Movement_Art-Rating^__________(^)} spacing is ignored.

HTML will collapse multiple spaces so try replacing each with the html non-breaking space entity ' ' e.g.

Code:

Title.displayFormat={$Title^$Movement_Rating^          [^]                 "$Movement_Art-Rating^          (^)}

Not pretty but it should work. You may be able to slim it down by alternating ' ' with space e.g. "       "

(16-06-2025 20:45)eseb63 Wrote:  Kinsky (Windows version) : when playing an album or a work having movements, it stops after the first track : i have to request playing for each other track.

I use Upplay on Windows so I can't help with Kinsky I'm afraid.

[eseb63]

(17-06-2025 10:15)simbun Wrote:  HTML will collapse multiple spaces so try replacing each with the html non-breaking space entity ' ' e.g.

Code:

Title.displayFormat={$Title^$Movement_Rating^          [^]                 "$Movement_Art-Rating^          (^)}

Not pretty but it should work. You may be able to slim it down by alternating ' ' with space e.g. "       "

thanks for the reply, but it doesn't work : " " is shown as litteral.

[simbun]

(17-06-2025 10:37)eseb63 Wrote:  thanks for the reply, but it doesn't work : " " is shown as litteral.

It looks like the handling differs by control point and element!

BubbleUPnP correctly renders multiple spaces, but displays " " as literals in all tags except for Comment, where it displays the contents as HTML (for which " " is required).

   
   

[eseb63]

(17-06-2025 12:05)simbun Wrote:  It looks like the handling differs by control point and element!

yes, Lumin App has no problem too

and for Linn products, Kazoo App handles multiple spaces correctly, but Kazoo for Windows doesn't...

[simbun]

(17-06-2025 13:54)eseb63 Wrote:  

(17-06-2025 12:05)simbun Wrote:  It looks like the handling differs by control point and element!

and for Linn products, Kazoo App handles multiple spaces correctly, but Kazoo for Windows doesn't...

The Braille Pattern Blank unicode character ('⠀') works in BubbleUPnP and Upplay: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2800

[eseb63]

(18-06-2025 08:06)simbun Wrote:  The Braille Pattern Blank unicode character ('⠀') works in BubbleUPnP and Upplay: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2800

but it's shown as a white blank rectangle in Kazoo Desktop.

good news for Kinsky : i saw in this post that stopping playback after the first track was a regression introduced in version 4.3 ; i found here a 4.2.3 version and it works normally ; i don't find release notes for Kinsky : i hope this version doesn't contain other ennoying bugs.

[simoncn]

I am runnng Kinsky 4.3.14 for Windows and I don't see this problem when playng to an OpenHome renderer. If the renderer is not OpenHome, playback stops after each track.

[simbun]

(18-06-2025 21:02)eseb63 Wrote:  but it's shown as a white blank rectangle in Kazoo Desktop.

What is Kazoo Desktop as I can't find anything about it on the web?

I installed Linn Kazoo from the Microsoft Store and it rendered the unicode character correctly, equivalent to that of a space.

[eseb63]

i use Foobar2000 foo_upnp plugin , with Bubbleupnp Server to create an openhome renderer but Kinsky desktop (last version) still stops playback after each track : 4.2.3 version works well with the same settings.
did you use another openHome software renderer ?