Blazify 9.12.4

Blazify 9.12.4 — playback restored for signed-in accounts, no waiting between songs, and updates from inside the app.

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⚠️ Already on 9.12.3? Read this first

This build is signed with a new key, so Android will not install it over 9.12.3. You have to uninstall first — and uninstalling erases your library unless you back it up.

Two minutes, in this order:

1. Open 9.12.3 → Settings → Backup and restore → Backup. Save the file to your Downloads folder. It holds your liked songs, playlists, history and your sign-in.
2. Download Blazify-9.12.4.apk from this page. It goes to Downloads and stays there.
3. Uninstall Blazify.
4. Open Downloads and tap Blazify-9.12.4.apk.
5. Settings → Backup and restore → Restore, and pick the file from step 1.

Everything comes back, including being signed in.

Why: the key that signed 9.12.3 can no longer be used. Android treats a differently-signed build as a different app, and there is no way around that from inside the app. This is a one-time break — 9.12.4 onwards updates normally, and now tells you when there is something to update to.

A fresh install needs none of this. Just install the APK.

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Songs play again when you are signed in

If songs stopped playing for you, or only worked while signed out, or only worked for a while after reinstalling, this is the release that fixes it. Four separate faults were behind that, all four are fixed, and every one was reproduced on a phone where nothing would play and confirmed there afterwards.

• Signing in no longer breaks playback. The identity that tells the catalogue who is asking was being saved empty, because it is filled in a moment after the sign-in page closes and nothing waited for it. Signed in, the app was asking with nothing at all — which is why signing out appeared to fix it.
• A stale identity now mends itself. That identity is minted once and kept, and it does not last forever. When it expires the catalogue stops answering — every song, every source at once — which reads as Video unavailable on a library that played yesterday. Reinstalling helped because it threw the old identity away. It is replaced in place now, without the reinstall.
• The two spare ways of unscrambling a stream address work again. Both depend on a component that was never handed anything to fetch with, so both had been returning "nothing found" for every song rather than failing loudly enough to notice.
• The app no longer asks for a stream it cannot unscramble. It was naming a version of the site's player script it had no way of reading, so the signature came back minted for one player and was unscrambled with another — a refusal on a step that reported no error at all.

Less waiting

• The next song is ready before the gap. Its address is fetched while the current song is still playing, so the handover has no pause in it. Measured: warmed at 12:49:24, played at 12:49:37, with no resolution work in between.
• A refused stream is caught in one request instead of a failed load. The check made before playing now asks exactly what the player is about to ask, so a song the first source will not serve moves to one that will in about four seconds rather than thirteen.
• Volume levelling is ready when the song starts, rather than being fetched again over the opening bars.

Updates, from inside the app

Knowing a new version existed was as far as this went — what followed was a web page, a list of files, a guess at which one, and an archive to find and make sense of.

• A new version is offered when you open the app, once, with the notes attached, and not again until the next one.
• Settings → Updater → Check for updates asks on demand and downloads it for you, with progress.
• The download goes to your Downloads folder, so it is still there if you have to uninstall first — and it tells you when that is the case instead of leaving you with a bare App not installed.
• The updater had also been asking a repository that isn't this one, reading a release's version from its headline rather than its tag, and looking for filenames this project never publishes. Any one of those was enough to make it find nothing.

Also

• The release notes travel inside the app. Settings → Changelog was nothing but a request to GitHub, so with no connection it was an empty box.
• Notes are rendered as written — bold and italic were being printed as asterisks.
• The update available badge on the About page no longer stays on permanently.

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Install

Blazify-9.12.4.apk · Android 8.0 or newer · universal, no Google Play Services required.

New here? Download and install. Coming from 9.12.3? Follow the five steps at the top.