Hello Chompers,

We’re strong believers in the power of sharing on social networks. It’s been something that’s always been baked into the essence of Chompin. Discover what your friends are listening to and share what you like. While we love Twitter, we found that people really wanted Facebook to share music with their friends. You spoke and the Gnomes listened.

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We’re proud to announce full Facebook support in the latest version of Chompin for the iPhone. Login with Facebook to see what your friends are discovering and share music to your Facebook wall. The tracks are playable directly in your post!

To celebrate the new feature and to say thanks for all your support the app is now available for free in iTunes.

We’re already hard at work getting Airplay support ready for the next version. If there are other features you’re interested in, please let us know. We love your input!

Thanks,

The Gnomes

Hey Chompers,

The Gnomes are good listeners and hard workers. We’re proud to announce the latest release of Chompin for Android, version 1.0.5. We understand that many of you like the notifications feature we released in 1.0.4. We also heard from several of you that you’d like more control over this feature. 

With that in mind we redesigned the Settings screen a bit and added the ability to control notifications messages from the application. Yay!

We fixed a few reported FC bugs and added higher resolution graphics for newer phones (i.e. EVO and Droid X). We also noticed that in newer releases of the Amazon MP3 application they block our ‘buy MP3s’ feature. We’re a little baffled as to why Amazon would decide to do this - not sure if they don’t like Gnomes or just made some ‘undocumented enhancements’. Allowing external applications to launch and search the Amazon store (even without affiliate integration) should be good for users and for Amazon’s bottom line. We’ll keep trying to bring this feature back because we think it’s good for the music ecosystem and good for our users.

If you notice any bugs, want to submit a feature request, or want to learn more about the gnomes, please feel free to drop us an email. 

As always, keep discovering new music!

- The Coastal Gnomes

Hey Chompers,

More goodness coming from the busy gnomes at Chompin. Last release we put out a poll asking for input on our next set of features. The feedback that we got definitely validated some of our thinking and we’re happy to announce 4 new features.

First, buy concert tickets for touring bands! A lot of great music flows through the Chompin system on a daily basis. Many of these bands are touring and we’re firm believers in the live music experience. Sample some hot new tracks, buy MP3s from and artist on Amazon, and get tickets to a live gig (via our friends at Bandsintown). Snap! Press and hold any track to access this feature in the ‘Discover More’ menu. 

Second, search for artist on Google. Here at Chompin we believe things should always be simple. When you find a track you like it should be easy to save, share and get more. Part of getting more can mean you search for information about a band/artist. Now with one simple step you’re able to search Google for any artist you discover on Chompin - the music will keep playing and you can keep rockin. Press and hold any track to access this feature in the ‘Discover More’ menu. 

Third, as you get more friends on Chompin we want to make sure you can filter their discoveries and find cool music. Lots of friends means lots of chomped tracks. Now when you’re in the Friends tab you can filter by friend or by date chomped (look for filters under the application menu). Working hard to make discovery through your friends easy and clean.

Fourth, wouldn’t it be great to know when new music is added to Chompin? We thought so too! With this release we’ve added background push notifications that let you know exactly when new music is added to the main Discover tab and when your friends chomp new tracks. Look for this in the Android status menu at the top of your screen.

Along with these new features we’ve made general performance improvements and fixed some isolated bugs and crash scenarios. Can’t ever be too fast or too stable!

If you notice any bugs, want to submit a feature request, or want to learn more about the gnomes, please feel free to drop us an email. 

As always, keep discovering new music!

- The Coastal Gnomes

Our first update to Chompin has hit the Android Marketplace. We’ve made several improvements and fixes:

• Now using Twitter oAuth for account linking (see below)
• Tighter integration with Twitter for sharing of tracks
• Fix some crash scenarios based on your feedback
• Improved playback caching for slow and intermittent networks
• Performance improvements
• @mention of your friend added to your Tweets when you share a track discovered through said friend.

Because we moved Twitter’s new login system you will have to login again once you’ve installed this new version. You can read more about why Twitter is requiring this change here.

We’re just a couple gnomes on the coast in California trying to make it easier to find good music.

We have a great pipeline of new features in the works, and would love to hear what you want. Let us know what you think!

The gnomes are proud to announce the v1.0 launch of Chompin for Android.

• Discover, Chomped, Friends, and Search tabs.
• Track playback and skip features.
• Twitter login to share with friends and see friend’s chomped tracks.
• Send messages with registered applications on your Android device.
• Support for offline/airplane mode.
• Optimizations for low bandwidth connections.