timoknapp/sound-on-fire

🔊☁️ 🔥📺 A Flutter based SoundCloud App for your Fire TV

SoundOnFire

A Flutter based SoundCloud App for your Fire TV.

Getting Started

In order to get started with SoundOnFire on your FireTV, you need to do the following:

• Download the latest Release from one of those:
  • GitHub
  • Microsoft App-Center
• Install the .apk on your FireTV
  • (easiest) install Downloader by AFTVnews on your FireTV, open it and enter tinyurl.com/sof-release, then read, understand and confirm the security prompts. (You can also enter 40787, but this requires an extra step to install the AFTVnews Downloader browser addon if you haven't already.)
  • with your Android Smartphone using this App
  • with your computer or another FireTV App read here
• Once the SoundOnFire App has been installed on your FireTV, a small modal will pop up on the bottom right of your screen. Otherwhise you will find the App under: Home > Your Apps > All Apps > SoundOnFire

In-App Update

On every App start, it will automatically check for new releases of SoundOnFire. In case of a new version being available, it will open a modal like the following. You will then have three option: Don't show again, Dismiss or Update (recommended)

Roadmap

This is currently the roadmap, please feel free to request additions/changes.

Feature	Progress
Stop playing when App crashes/closes/pauses	✅
FireTV remote hardkey support (Play/Pause, Rewind, Forward)	✅
Playlist mode (Continue playing, when track finished)	✅
Screensaver disabled when playing	✅
Comprehensive Footer (Current Track, Play/Pause, etc.)	✅
In-App Update	✅
Autofetch search results	✅
Smartphone as Remote (Paring via QR)	🔜
Store favorites locally	🔜
Use Slider to scroll through track	🔜
Build Version for AppleTV and MacOS	🔜

Remote Control via Smartphone

The main idea with this is to simply use your smartphone as a remote control for using SoundOnFire. The first draft of the this will focus on using it as a keyboard such that you could search for tracks using your smartphone keyboard.

In case you are more interested in this feature you can go here and have a look the diagrams.

Known Issues

• BUG: ✅ #27 Tracks longer than ~ 40 minutes will stop unexpectedly and next track continues. Its a known issue and it seems to relate to an unexpected connection loss of the stream. The logs show the following error:
  • W/MediaHTTPConnection( 3979): readAt 36823797 / 7435 => java.net.ProtocolException: unexpected end of stream

Contribution

PRs Welcome!

Privacy

Read here

sound-on-fire's Issues

SoundCloud profile?

I assume SoundCloud APIs do not allow logging in by 3rd party apps and/or list playlists by specific profiles, right?

I'm searching for an alternative on Fire TV that allows navigating playlists, likes etc. from my profile, to have a convenient way to access my music.

I do not want to copy paste or type and search stuff, as it feels unproductive.

login

That may help you
https://gist.github.com/blackjack4494/c67adb54aaf2db79f394279fc9d76bb6
if you want to implement login. Private sets/playlists like soundcloud weekly will be available then. Also higher quality songs if you have a subscription

changing tracks automatically after around 40 min

was listening to long sets (1.5 hr+) and twice it happened after around 40min it skipped to the next track in the playlist. Will try to play some more long sets and see if this is a persistent issue

Bluethooth Keyboard not working

in search.

Thanks for your grate App!

RFE: App listing icon

would be great if there was an icon to recognise the app in the list. right now the generic grey box is displayed and since there is no app name anywhere its difficult to recognise the app.