Electronic music streaming app Beem gets a seriously cool update

Beem v1.1

Back in early April we reported on the new streaming music app Beem by Windows Telephone Evolution MVP Den Delimarsky. The app taps into Digitally Imported (www.di.fm), the popular electronic dance music site which features everything from Techno to Trance to Chillout to Progressive making information technology quite the value. What's more, both the service and app are completely free and the app doesn't even have whatever ads. Did nosotros mention information technology's pretty gorgeous too?

Beem v1.1

Version 1.1 just hit the Market with a bunch of welcomed new features, some of which are extremely impressive:

A bug set that at present allows you to re-pivot a tile even if it disappears (apparently an Bone bug, but in that location is at present a workaround).
UI tweaks.
Power to search for played songs in the Zune Marketplace.
Power to record the stream and store information technology locally for playback (consider this a DVR implementation for DI.FM).
Ability to set curt recorded music equally a ringtone.
There is now a "Now Playing" selection that allows users to easily bound to the currently playing station.
Added the ability to articulate the music player (in instance you don't want to meet the concluding played content even though it is paused).

The ability to look the vocal up in Zune was something we asked for--subsequently all, we desire to make use of that Zune Laissez passer--so it'southward not bad to see it here. The new characteristic works flawlessly allowing us to search for the song/artist that's currently playing and then download to our phone direct (something that'southward very crawly over AT&T's LTE).

But the ability to locally record whatever is playing is the most impressive. The music is saved within the app for later offline playback and is really quite useful. Non just does information technology record but it shows you how much space in KB it's taking up in real-time. Very cool stuff.

Finally, the rest of the changes are just icing on the cake. The new Tile layout of the stations is quite eye-catching and the app is a must-have for us equally we're large fans of downtempo for our background tunes. If Beem sounds like something upwardly your aisle and then you lot tin grab it right here in the Windows Phone Market (or check out Den's page on the update). The app is on our must-have list for a reason!

QR: Beem

The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android 11

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The AT&T version of Surface Duo is now getting Android xi

Afterwards a very long await, the original Surface Duo is at present eligible to receive its over-the-air Bone update to Android 11. Here is what is new and fixed with the biggest update yet for Microsoft's first dual-screen Android device.