Pepper for Windows Phone receives massive update, further bringing music to life

Pepper

Pepper is a pop Windows Phone app hither in the UK (www.pepper.so). The service is essentially a music social network that helps you check out live events and gigs across the country with friends you lot know and share interests with. Venues and events are listed with times, artists and other details that make it that much easier to become downward and enjoy local music.

Besides available for iOS and Windows eight, Pepper remains within the Microsoft ecosystem using Windows Azure for backend systems and releasing new updates to Windows 8 and Windows Phone first. Since the Windows 8 version of Pepper has been released, the team behind the service has worked difficult to completely rewrite the Windows Phone application, sharing code from the desktop app.

Pepper

While the complete rewrite is past far the largest change in the latest release, we're as well looking at an array of new features. Login with Facebook integration is now possible when starting up the app for the first time. The visitor will connect through your business relationship to open a Pepper contour, but fear non as no sensitive information is stolen. Once you're connected and logged in, yous're good to become.

The update focuses on improving the social features, every bit well as the overall UI. If yous're a frequent user and accept but just updated to version ane.vi.9.153, you'll discover the new await and experience. Don't fear that alter is bad, however. The structure of the app itself remains untouched, but optimised. Searching through Pepper is at present much more streamlined and it now performs more than efficiently, likewise as sporting Hither Maps integration when looking at locations.

Pepper

Trending artists enables you lot to stay on top of who's popular and worth checking out. This listing (pictured above) is regularly updated to reverberate which artists the Pepper community is interacting with the nearly. When non stalking your favourite bands, to keep up-to-appointment with friends' interactions, the activity feed will show the post-obit:

New Friends
Favourites
Events added to agenda
Check-ins
Shouts
Photos

When actually visiting an outcome and watching a band perform live, ane tin can "check-in" in then "shout" near the consequence, which effectively opens upwards a discussion thread where other attendees can engage in conversation, sharing photos and more than. When not at an upshot, SoundCloud back up has been added with over 55,000 tracks available to play through the app.

Adding artists and venues every bit favourites will open new possibilities with the service taking what you like or honey (the rating system is out of 3 stars) and promoting events that you're more likely to savor. The best function well-nigh the service is that it works on the spider web also. If y'all share an creative person or effect and whoever clicks the link on social media websites doesn't have the Pepper app, they'll be taken to the website and the respective profile folio (with an icon to launch the apps).

Artists are besides tagged when sharing from Pepper.

This update is only for Windows Telephone viii for the time being. The Windows Telephone seven.x version will exist updated within the coming weeks. You can download Pepper from the Windows Phone Store (also available for Windows 8). It'southward only targeting the UK but nosotros'll have some rather exciting news for U.s.a. consumers (as well as other markets) later this week.

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