Gigbeat 1.1 - Now Available

We are very excited to announce that Gigbeat 1.1 is now available in the Android Market. This release has tons of new features and lots of fixes for issues found in 1.0.

Here’s a summary of what’s new!

* You can now check-in to concerts using foursquare from any Gigbeat event detail page! All the concerts that you check-in to will be listed under your My Gigs screen as past gigs. 

* In addition to revamping our initial user experience, we have added the ability to login to Rdio and pull the artists you have in your collection. You’ll notice you have the ability to add all your artists from a particular source or manually select artists from these lists by starring the artist.

* We made several improvements to the performance of event loading in the app. There was a bug in the 1.0 version of the app that wouldn’t let you scroll past a certain date for some artists, but this has now been fixed. We also added the setting to allow you to sync content over wifi only or to disable loading images to save on bandwidth.

* You can now track multiple cities and also follow the upcoming schedule at your favorite venue! You’ll receive artist on tour near you notifications for any of your starred cities, allowing you to keep up with what’s happening all around you. When viewing a location’s calendar or a venue’s calendar you can select a date to filter the results by clicking on the calendar icon in the action bar.

* We added a homescreen widget that let’s you cycle through your upcoming gigs right from your phone’s homescreen. Clicking on an event will take you to the details screen.

* We greatly improved the search results screens for both cities and artists. You will now see results for your search instead of just the top result from the search. 

* We added a brand new featured section of the application. For the launch of Gigbeat 1.1 we hand picked some favorite bands that we think everyone should check out, you’ll find this list under ‘Staff Picks’. You can also see which of the Grammy Nominees are on tour right now by heading over to the featured page.

We hope you enjoy the new release of Gigbeat. Let us know what you think of it and if you run into any issues send over an email to support@gigbeat.fm and we will gladly help!

Thanks!

-Team Gigbeat

5 months ago  /  3 notes