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App news: Spotify, We7, Deezer, Mobile Roadie

By | Published on Thursday 3 May 2012

Spotify

Ah, a Spotify development without a pointless press conference. Hurrah! Perhaps they are learning. Spotify has updated its iOS app so that it works on iPads as well as iPhones.

When the streaming service announced its recent press event in New York, which it turned out was to reveal a lacklustre sales transaction with Coke, many thought it would actually be used to announce the popular music platform was finally reaching the Apple tablet device. Spotify say that the new iOS upgrade also offers some extra functionality and fixes some past bugs that occasionally caused the app to crash. Of course the option of listening to music via Spotify on Apple mobile or tablet devices is only open to full ten pound a month subscribers.

Elsewhere in app land, We7 has also announced a major update to its free-to-use Pandora-style radio app, available on both iPhone and Android, which allows users to download tracks and themed ‘stations’ for offline listening, share their favourite stations via social networks, and rate tracks up and down so that the app can learn their musical tastes and deliver songs accordingly.

More appy news from streaming music land, and while Deezer hasn’t launched an app today, it has announced the release of an API which will enable other developers to build music-based apps that utilise the streaming firm’s system. And not only will app developers have access to Deezer technology and content via the API, if their apps result in any users signing up for an account with the streaming platform, the firm will pay the app maker a £9.99 finder’s fee. Two Deezer ‘hack days’ have been announced in Paris and Berlin on 15-17 May and 6-8 Jul respectively.

And finally from the busy CMU app desk this morning, app maker Mobile Roadie announced earlier this week the launch of two new products – an iPad app kit and mobile website kit – which enables content owners and brands to easily create apps for the Apple tablet or websites designed for consumption via a smartphone’s web browser. The tech firm already offers platforms to make it easy to create apps for iPhones and Android devices.



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