Pepper for Windows Phone updated with general fixes; get involved to add your local venues

Pepper is a gratis music discovery service available on iOS, Android, Windows 8 and Windows Phone. While Pepper has been effectually since Windows Phone seven, the team backside the service has simply just launched Pepper in the US. It has taken some time, but one should non underestimate just what their end goals are - to not only enable consumers to bank check out and attend local events at known venues, simply detect new music in the process.

Today an update has been released to the store. We're as well calling out to US consumers who would like to get involved and lend a hand by seeding some local venues they'd like covered by the Pepper squad. Head past the break to read more than.

Here's what's new in version 1.7.6.196, which is now available:

Bug causing the app to crash while performing the Here & Now Search (pace 3) has been resolved
Ticket currencies are now displaying correctly, based on the land that the particular venue is located in
'Location Services Disabled' message box no longer shows for those who have location services enabled, when the app is waiting for the first location to come up from the device. User may exist prompted with 'location not constitute' message if it takes likewise long
Improved calculations to allow users to bank check-in to events when they have poor accuracy on their current location. This should solve issues on checking in at venues that may be underground, or made of building material affecting indicate.
Fixed bug causing issues when attempting to connect Twitter accounts.

Go involved and provide information

You may call back our commodity some time agone asking the customs to help out the Pepper squad while they prepared for the US launch. Now that the team are well and truly locked on to united states, they're still working hard on edifice the central database of venues and events nationwide. This is where you lot guys come in. Practice y'all enjoy the app and use it to visit local venues? If then, they're interested to larn of locations they don't currently cover.

For the time being, the Pepper squad would like to notice out the following on whatever venues y'all're aware of:

Venue proper noun
Boondocks
State
Website / phone number
Whatever further details y'all believe might be useful

Y'all can enter the above information over on our forum in the designated thread (more information in the thread - please practise not exercise so on this article in the comments as it'll carve up the data up).

Fancy trying out the service itself? You can download Pepperfrom the Windows Phone Store for free.

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