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VIDEO: Spotify debuts improved MP3 purchases

Spotify will shortly be launching an improved MP3 purchasing experience for tracks on its streaming service. It's always been possible to buy MP3s through a right-click menu, but clicking that just opened a browser window that took you to 7digital's website.

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Which is the best online music service?

With Sky's announcement of the company's upcoming service, Sky Songs, we finally have proof that every man and his dog is getting in on the music scene. As a consumer, though, the picture just gets that little bit more complicated.

If you want all the music in...

BlackBerry music app unveiled by 7Digital

The iPhone has iTunes. Android has Amazon MP3, at least in the States and Nokia has Comes with Music, but until now BlackBerry and Windows Mobile users were sat in the cold.

BlackBerry's now been invited into the warm confines of the party, leaving poor old...

7digital launches in USA and Canada

MP3 download service 7digital has announced an expansion over the pond into the USA and Canada. The UK-based music company has opened websites in North America for both countries that feature content from all four major labels, as well as a host of independents.

HMV snares 50% share of 7digital

HMV has gone 50-50 with 7digital in a major investment in digital music for the high street store. The £7.7 million stake means that 7digital will power all of HMV's music and video downloads in the UK and Canada as well as for eBook readers in Waterstones.

The...

7digital signs pan-European MP3 deal with Warner

7digital has announced that it's signed a pan-European deal with Warner Music that'll allow the former to sell MP3s from the major label across France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy and Portugal, in addition to the already-existing deals in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Austria...

More info on 7digital's BlackBerry app unveiled

A little more has emerged about the 7digital music download application that we brought you news of for the BlackBerry platform.

Angled as a way to help BlackBerry-maker RIM compete in the consumer smartphone market against the likes of Apple and Nokia, the...

Spotify debunks unlimited downloads rumour

Start-up Spotify has denied it has ambitious plans to extend its reach in the music market, by rivalling giants such as iTunes, Napster and Nokia.

That Spotify was planning to launch an "unlimited music download service" for £9.99 per month was reported by Revolution...

7digital to offer chance to buy Spotify playlists

Spotify and 7digital have announced a team-up that will see 7digital's MP3 music downloads available directly through the Spotify application.

This will mean Spotify users can purchase 320kbps MP3 downloads (with some FLAC tracks available) from the 6 million...

AOL updates Winamp

AOL has announced an update to the Winamp media player available now to its 73 million users.

Winamp 5.55 offers a multimedia "artist discovery" experience, a merchandise store plus the opportunity to purchase downloads and ringtones while iTunes and iPod syncing...

7Digital.com teams up with Songbird

MP3 download site 7digital.com has announced a partnership with the open-source, customisable media player, Songbird.

The partnership will see 7digital.com's music store integrated within the Songbird player, and will allow Songbird users in the US and Europe...

7digital.com says Q4 sales up 260%

Some good news in the business world to counterbalance the gloom of the economic downturn - 7digital.com has announced strong figures with Q4 sales up more than 260% from the same quarter last year.

7digital attributes this success in part to the introduction...

MP3-compatible campaign and logo launches

Seven of the UK's music download retailers have launched a campaign that identifies music in the MP3 format.

Angled "to help consumers make the most of the growing availability of music in the universally compatible MP3 format", the campaign will get a logo...

COMMENT: Nokia Comes With Music is not "fatally flawed"

Nokia's just-launched "Comes With Music" service has been slammed as "fatally flawed" by 7digital's CEO Ben Drury, but I think he - and others who have criticised the service - have got it wrong.

The service gives owners of certain handsets unlimited access...

7digital boss slams Nokia Comes With Music

Ben Drury, the CEO of 7digital.com, has issued a statement following the launch of Nokia's Comes With Music service in the UK.

The service is due to go live towards the end of October and promises unlimited access to a library of millions of tracks for a year,...

7digital goes 100% MP3

7digital.com has announced it is now 100% MP3. Following deals with all of the big four labels, 7digital is now providing digital music in high-quality (320kbps) DRM-free MP3 format.

The company says this marks the first time ever UK consumers will have access...

7digital sees 300% sales increase from DRM-free

7digital.com has said that it has seen "rocketing" digital music sales following the introduction of the DRM-free MP3 download format across the Warner Music and EMI catalogues.

In March, 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to offer the Warner Music...

Sony offers 5 free tracks, 5 free vids with certain Walkmans

Sony has announced deals with both Napster and 7digital.com that sees free music bundled with certain Walkman digital media players.

7digital.com voucher cards for five free digital downloads have been placed inside the Walkman "Wirefree" series (the NWZ-A826K...

7digital to sell DRM-free MP3s from Warner

Warner Music and 7digital have announced that MP3 music audio downloads from Warner Music are now available to
7digital.com customers in the UK, Ireland, Spain, France and Germany.

7digital.com will be, in their words, one of the first major European...

7digital says music download biz booming

Kylie, Arctic Monkeys and The White Strips all had top selling albums last year according to 2007 sales figures from online download company 7digital.

Five Radiohead albums also featured in the Top 20 following the release of their back catalogue for digital...

7Digital: We're starting a DRM-free price war

7digital.com has issued a statement saying that it is igniting "a price war" and has challenged online retailers, including Apple's iTunes, to match the quality and price of its DRM-free MP3 downloads.

7digital offers up to high-quality 320kbps format MP3s that...

7digital says DRM-free outsells by four to one

7digital.com has issued information that they say shows consumers greatly prefer their music downloads in MP3 format without the restriction of DRM.

They say that DRM-free MP3 downloads are out-selling other digital formats by almost four to one (where MP3...

amp3digital.com music and video download site launches

Advanced MP3 Players, an online retailer for all things MP3, has expanded their offerings to include a download site.

The amp3digital.com music and video download store is love now offering a range downloads, including DRM-free tracks.

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British download store to "take on iTunes"

Plucky British download website 7digital is going to take on iTunes following its re-launch next week, the BBC reports.

The download site is hoping to entice iTunes customers over by promising improved ease of use and cheaper tracks.

Some tracks...