Crist Drive

We just released a new version of Serenade on the App Store (version 1.7) and we're happy to bring you 2 nice new features:

Easier Twitter sharing. We're using the new Twitter goodness in iOS 5 to make Twitter sharing super easy and more reliable. It'll automatically import all the accounts you've setup on your iPhone and you can just tweet your best songs to your Twitter friends. You need iOS 5 on your iOS device, just connect your device to your Mac or PC and follow the onscreen instructions in iTunes.

You can now also control AirPlay directly from Serenade. If we detect that you have AirPlay speakers around, we'll show the AirPlay icon and you can send choose to stream your songs to any of them.

We also made some improvements to the Facebook sharing and various other bugs. Please let us know how you like it on our Forums or by leaving a review on the iTunes Store. Thank you so much!

The latest version of Serenade is now available for Free on the App Store. The good news: we fixed bugs with the Facebook login part, and are now using the "Single Sign On" feature of Facebook so you can login with just one tap with you have Facebook installed on your device, no need to enter your credentials anymore! We also greatly improved the creation of links to the iTunes Store, fixed issues with the Grooveshark links and we also added the #nowlistening hashtag by popular demand!

Now one bad news... we had to take out the Lyrics feature from Serenade. The API we were using shut down without any notice (!) which explained the bug in Serenade. We tried hard to find a replacement API without success. If you're not familiar with Lyrics, there's copyrights on them, and you basically need to pay to have good data. We cannot afford it since Serenade is free, so we took the decision to remove the feature, until we can find a reliable replacement for a good lyrics feature.

We hope you enjoy Serenade 1.6 and that the bugs you were encountering have been fixed. As usual please leave reviews about this latest version on the iTunes Store and feel free to send us feedback on Twitter @cristdrive or on Get Satisfaction. Thanks for your patience!