SoundTracking, our 2011 FlashFWD recipient for Best in Mobile & Tablet, announced some major updates today for Android and iOS.
The popular and free music sharing/discovery app is already a go to for those who want to easily share what tracks they’re listening to, in the moment, across multiple social channels. And while some of the updates noted in today’s announcement seem to be a bit late to the game…
…Like the addition of hashtags (so hip)…
Others though show a genuine elevation of the platform’s capabilities. I particularly like the new tools for song requests and music dedications, which add a much more personal element to the service. As their blog states:
Want to ask a friend what their favorite jam is right now? Now you can send song requests privately on SoundTracking and they’ll get a personal notification from you. Ever wanted to send a follower a song or dedicate a music moment? Just send a song dedication and that follower will receive a note that you’ve dedicated music to them. While we’re all having fun broadcasting our music taste and life moments to our SoundTracking followers, this new set of messaging features is a fun way to directly and privately communicate with friends through songs.
Coming from someone who is regularly called out for accidentally advertising my musical guilty pleasures (I may have recommended Carly Rae one too many times through Spotify, sue me), this kind of private, personal touch is a nice addition.
Other new features include:
- SoundTracking in both iOS and Android are now translated in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Korean. All you need to do is install the new update and you should see the translated app automatically if your device is set to those languages already.
- In the Android version, you can post music moments using songs that we might not have in our song database, when using Now Playing or MusicID. We may not have every song known to man in our database, but we wanted to let you add to your music timeline anyway.
- Getting popular and wanting to manage your presence on SoundTracking? You can now delete your own posts and comments, comments by others on your posts, and block users you might not want to interact with.
- Want to embed your favorite music moments into your blog or website? You can now go to your web profile at SoundTracking.com and grab an embed code for any of your posts and just copy & paste into your website.
You can download SoundTracking for free HERE
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