Comments on: Droidisk – Playing music

By: John Reekie

John Reekie — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:44:29 +0000

Hi, I used a USB OTG adapter and a regular USB to micro-USB cable. You will find these on Amazon, eBay etc.

By: BRIAN FROEBER

BRIAN FROEBER — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:57:56 +0000

How did you link the Nexus 7 and NX4 together??? So the music’s played on the Nexus 7 and then decoded through the NX4?

Links to anything you used to link them please! Thanks!

Trying to setup a small music system on my desk at work

Thanks!

By: John Reekie

John Reekie — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:14:18 +0000

It appears that the Tidal UI in Volumio is there now but requires a paid subscription. At any rate, the BubbleUPnPServer install is the best approach as it will work with any DLNA renderer.

By: John Reekie

John Reekie — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:03:41 +0000

Hi Seb, glad you found it useful 🙂 I think for Spotify you need to use the Volumio web interface and install the Spotfy plugin there (requires a premium subscription IIRC).

By: Seb

Seb — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:04:05 +0000

John, I wanted to say this has been a great help! In a few hours I was able to go trough P1 and P2, right now I’m playing some Tidal tracks trough my Odroid and Rpi3 right now!

BubbleUNpn seems a little crowded, but we will see how we get along. Any tips for streaming Sportify with this config (Odroid w/ minim + renderer)?
Thanks again!

By: John Reekie

John Reekie — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 07:36:55 +0000

Thanks Jacques, that’s good info. I gather there are some differences but I’ll try it sometime.

By: Jacques Distler

Jacques Distler — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 21:32:33 +0000

"Hi Jacques, to stream Tidal to Volumio, you need to use BubbleUPnP Server (at least, I can find no way to do it without)." There are Tidal, Qobuz and GMusic plugins for upmpdcli. They are optional installs: apt-get install upmpdcli-qobuz upmpdcli-tidal upmpdcli-gmusic You'll also need to configure these by hand in upmpdcli.conf. The Volumio people have long-promised a GUI for this, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

By: John Reekie

John Reekie — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:15:54 +0000

Hi Jacques, to stream Tidal to Volumio, you need to use BubbleUPnP Server (at least, I can find no way to do it without). For the Android tablet running the BubbleUPnP app, I don’t think you do. The Android tablet is intended as an example of other renderers that you can use, since I’ve mostly talked previously about using an RPi. Hope that helps, let me know how it works out for you if you put a server together 🙂

By: Jacques Distler

Jacques Distler — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:24:29 +0000

Perhaps you could say, again, what the role of BubbleUPnP Server is in this setup.

If I understand correctly its function is to turn a vanilla UPnP renderer into an OpenHome renderer. (It also does transcoding for ChomeCast, but you’re not using ChromeCast here and MinimStreamer provides integrated transcoding ability for MinimServer.)

* Volumio 2.x (in your previous writeup of a Raspberry Pi as a renderer) is an OpenHome renderer, so doesn’t need BubbleUPnP Server.
* In this writeup, you’re using BubbleUPnP on an Android tablet as an OpenHome CP/renderer. Does that require BubbleUPnP Server?