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!

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