Attention Newbies!!!!
One aspect of the 70,000 Tons cruise is there is no offical app for the cruise. This is a shame because with 60+ bands and over 200 events onboard how the hell are you going to keep track of it all!
Fear not, the 70K community has come to your rescue. For the 9th cruise in a row you can download the 70K Bands app for your iOS or Android phone or tablet. Every year over the last 9 cruises new features, improvements, and refinements have been made to the app, so this is now a well polished tool with lots of features and ease of use conviences added. The app is free, open source, and community maintained.
What features are offered
The app actually has 2 different feature sets, and you get both in the same tool
Pre-Cruise
You get timely push notifications to your device as bands are announced
You get a list of currently announced bands
You can click through to get details of those bands including
- Links to the Official Site, Metal Archives, Wikipedia, and Youtube for the band
- Ability to flag as Must See, Might See, or Wont See
- And after a bit (we need to write them), entertaining and informative descriptions of the bands
All of this is a native, multi language app
After the running order of all bands is announced (2-3 days before sail normally), the interface changes to the running order, and the feature set changes
- You get a list of all 200+ events on board, with events dropping of the active list as they end
- You get an alert 10 min before events you indicated you were interested in attending start (this can be customized)
- Optimized for being on a cruise ship with no, or poor internet access
- Ability to customize the schedule in multiple ways (by band preference, by show preference, etc)
There is a lot of functionality here built up over the years
Here is written documentation
https://docs.google.com/.../1pkqCSj1Yv-E6r5V7L...
Here is a video walkthrough
https://youtu.be/e4QW_vPA6nw
Every Tuesday I will make a post on the official 70K Bands facebook page (and other locations) with the stats of who has marked what bands as favorites and other fun stats about what is going.
All stats gathered by the app are 100% anonymous and are only used for community purposes.
Since I don't know your email or other personal data..nothing is really tracking you and nothing is EVER sold.
Check out the app today!
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... m.Bands70k
iOS
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/70k-bands/id958759290