A fast, native SoundCloud player for Amazon Fire TV.
Search, play and discover music from the couch, no account required.

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Features

• Made for the remote. Every screen is built for D-pad navigation, with a floating, translucent on-screen keyboard. Bluetooth keyboards work too.
• Search everything. Instant suggestions while you type, then a full results page that keeps loading as you scroll.
• Your library, no login. Enter a SoundCloud username to import its public likes and playlists. They stay in sync every time the app opens.
• Recommendations that learn. Your mix, Because you liked…, From your playlists and More from… rows are built on the TV from your likes, playlists and listening, and get better the more you play.
• Endless playback. When the queue runs out, related tracks keep playing.
• Big-screen Playing Now. Full-resolution cover art, a minimal transport bar, and an ambient mode that fades the UI away.
• Remote friendly. The play/pause, rewind and fast-forward keys work on every screen.
• Small and quick. A ~3 MB native app that starts in under a second on a Fire TV stick.

Install

SoundFire is sideloaded. It isn't in the Amazon Appstore.

With Downloader (easiest)

1. On the Fire TV, enable Settings → My Fire TV → Developer options → Install unknown apps for Downloader.
2. Open Downloader and enter:

   https://github.com/1lawl/soundfire/releases/latest/download/soundfire.apk
   

3. Install, then open SoundFire from Your Apps & Channels.

With ADB

adb connect <fire-tv-ip>:5555
adb install -r soundfire.apk

APKs are published on the Releases page.

Using SoundFire

Remote	Action
D-pad / OK	Move and select
Back	Close the keyboard or go back
☰ Menu	Jump to Playing Now
⏯ / ⏪ / ⏩	Play-pause, back 10 s, forward 10 s

To personalise the home screen, choose Import your likes in the header and enter a SoundCloud username, for example 1lawl for soundcloud.com/1lawl. Only public data is read, and no password is ever needed.

Build from source

Requirements: JDK 17 or newer and the Android SDK (platform 37).

git clone https://github.com/1lawl/soundfire.git
cd soundfire
./gradlew assembleRelease          # app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk
./gradlew installRelease           # or build and install to a connected device

Release builds are signed with the debug key so they can be sideloaded straight away. Use your own keystore for anything you distribute.

How it works

Layer
UI	Jetpack Compose. Layouts are authored at 1920×1080 and scale uniformly to any TV resolution and aspect ratio, inside the TV-safe area.
Playback	Media3 ExoPlayer streaming SoundCloud's AAC HLS. Stream URLs are resolved just in time and refreshed if they expire mid-track.
Data	SoundCloud's public web API, the same one soundcloud.com uses when you're signed out.
Recommendations	An on-device taste profile (Room) weights likes, playlists, plays and skips, then ranks SoundCloud's related tracks, stations and artist catalogues against it.

Privacy

SoundFire has no accounts, analytics or ads. Your listening history and taste profile never leave the TV. The only network traffic is to SoundCloud, to fetch music.

Disclaimer

SoundFire is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by SoundCloud. It only plays streams SoundCloud makes publicly available: tracks that need SoundCloud Go+ or are protected with DRM are shown as unavailable, never bypassed. Support the artists you listen to.

Acknowledgements

• Inspired by sound-on-fire by Timo Knapp (MIT).
• Inter typeface by Rasmus Andersson, SIL Open Font License (see licenses/).

License

MIT © 2026 1lawl