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It's been a little while since we haven't updated you but we have good reasons. Voilà! has been updated to 1.4 a few weeks ago, bringing you the ability to use the Twitter Geotagging feature to directly attach your location to your tweet. Clients like Seesmic Web will then display your location address and map next to your tweet directly in the timeline. We also added more control on your privacy, and you can now choose the precision of the location you're sending to your Twitter Profile. You can also change the type of map displayed in Voilà! just like in the Maps application of your iPhone.

We also released the 1.3 version of Serenade today with the ability to share a song with a link to Grooveshark so your users can directly listen to the full song directly in their browser (like here, for example). Users also asked the ability to add the very popular and always trending #nowplaying hashtag when sharing on Twitter.

Now what? As you probably know, Apple introduced the iPad a couple of weeks ago. We're really excited by this new type of device, that is going to change the way you use a computer. Of course, the iPad is going to allow us to bring Serenade to the next level, and we'll share more about it with you, very soon. Stay tuned!

We're really happy about the new version of Serenade that just landed on the App Store, since it's the biggest update so far. We included features that we think makes Serenade the best social music player on the iPhone:

Sing, Sing, Sing!
Do you want the lyrics of the song you're listening to? Just tap the Mic button on the top-right of the screen and we will display the lyrics from Lyricsfly.com if we find them. It's very easy to do, and you can know check out the lyrics before sharing a song, or a specific part of the song.

More sharing
If you don't want to share a link to the iTunes Store, you can now choose to link to Youtube or Spotify. We'll build a search link for those services and there's a very high chance that the song you're listening to will show up at the top of the results. We still prefer you to use iTunes (because that's how we earn money!) but if you want other links, you know have the choice to.

I'm listening to...
You can now add a prefix before the information of your song, like "I'm listening to" or "I really like" so you message is already personalized and you can share a song even faster. We'll add custom prefix in the next version.

Hashtags
When you share on Twitter, you can now add Hashtags next to your message. For now, we have 3 types of Hashtags: #serenade (to help us make some buzz about Serenade), the artist or band name of the song you're sharing and #musicmonday if you're sharing a song on on Monday.

We also made improvements to the Facebook sharing, and fixed other little bugs. As always, let us know what you think and if you like using Serenade, please write a little review about us on the App Store.