u/azcoyotedog

Hello, there seems to be some confusion here regarding Sparkle subscriptions.

If you purchased a lifetime subscription of Sparkle back when it was available on the Google Play Store, you DO NOT need to access the Sparkle Assistant App or Sparkle Website.

If you purchased a lifetime subscription to Sparkle back when it was available on the Google Play Store and wish to install it on another device, you can download the APK file here and install Sparkle on other devices as your lifetime subscription allows 5 installs.

If you do not have a subscription to Sparkle and wish to purchase one, you may use your android phone or tablet and purchase a Sparkle Subscription using the Sparkle Assistant app available in the Google Play Store. You can also download the current version of the app as well. Please note: the Sparkle Assistant app is not available in the Google Play Store on streaming devices, only on an android phone or tablet.

If you do not have an android phone or tablet, you may use the Sparkle Website and purchase a Sparkle Subscription and also download the current version of the app. If you have a web browser installed on your streaming device, you may use the Sparkle Website on your streaming device browser if that option is convenient for you.

If you only purchased a monthly or yearly subscription of Sparkle using either the Sparkle Assistant app or Sparkle Website there is no need to worry as your subscription auto-renews.

At this time, Sparkle is not available on Apple TV.

I hope this post helps those of you who may be confused about Sparkle Subscriptions. If you have subscription questions, feel free to reach out to the developer u/sparkle-hk.

Please limit any questions or comments to this post to the subject of subscriptions.

Thank you for being a Sparkle user and we hope you enjoy using Sparkle Player!

My apologies to this community.

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Greetings, I just searched the Google Play Store on my android tablet for the copycat Sparkle TV - IPTV Player and unless I’m mistaken, I think Google took it down or they are expecting technical difficulties. When I click on the search results for the copycat, I get a “Something Went Wrong” error message?

I also searched for it on my iPhone at play.google.com and the result was:
We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.

Would someone please search the Google Play Store on an android phone or tablet and confirm if you are getting the same error message?

Hopefully this means the copycat app is gone for good!

Thanks,
azcoyotedog

Hello Sparkle Player users, here is a step by step tutorial on how to set up a USB External Drive for Sparkle DVR Recordings. This should work on most Android streaming devices.

Open your device settings and go to System / Storage.

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​Insert your USB External Drive into your streamer device (making sure you have nothing important on it as it will be formatted) and select it.

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​To the right you will see Erase & Format as Removable Storage, select it.

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​Click on Erase & Format as Removable Storage and you will then see this screen:

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​Click on Format

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​When formatting is completed, your USB External Drive is now ready to be used as external storage.

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​To double check that the drive is accessible, open a file manager app. File Manager + is an easy to use Free File Manager app that is available in the Google Play store.

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​Click on the USB External Drive Icon and you should then see folders already saved on the drive.

Congratulations, you have successfully set up your USB External Drive for additional storage.

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​Now lets set up Sparkle Player so you can save your recordings to this USB External Drive, open Sparkle Player and go to Settings and scroll down to DVR.

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​Click on DVR.

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​Scroll down to the Playlist DVR Location you wish to set up and click on DVR Location Disabled.

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​Now select your USB External Drive.

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​Click on your USB External Drive, you will be prompted to select a storage location, click on Browse.

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​Now scroll down to the DOWNLOAD folder.

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​Click on the DOWNLOAD folder and then click on Done.

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​You have now selected the location where your Sparkle Player Recordings will be saved.

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​Now do a TEST RECORDING. Open the program guide for the playlist you have just set up and select a future program (I would suggest a 30 minute program for testing).

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​Click on the future program you selected. You will be prompted to either record This Program or Entire Series, for testing, select This Program.

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​You should now see REC in the program name. This tell you that you have scheduled a future program to be recorded. After the program time has elapsed, open your DVR Recordings and play the recorded program. Please note, if you see "recorded with errors, go ahead and play the recording anyway. If there were no issues with playback, you are good to go! If there were issues while playing the recording, this doesn't mean your Sparkle Player DVR setup is bad, it just means something went wrong with the stream during the recording session.

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​I hope this tutorial will help those users who are new to IPTV or having issues with external drives on their devices and Sparkle Player DVR.

Feel free to reach out with any questions, but lets keep the questions to the subject of this Reddit thread.

Thank you and happy recording!

azcoyotedog

What exactly do you get extra for the paid version? Thanks

I was messing around with this launcher yesterday on my Google 4K Streamer, how to you add a Shortcut? There is a category for Shortcuts and it’s toggled to show, but it’s not visible because nothing is in it yet, so how do I create a shortcut and add it to the shortcuts category so the category will be visible ?? Thanks