Spotify and 7Digital join forces

Spotify has teamed up with music download site 7Digital to enable people to buy the tracks they listen to on the service.

Spotify is a Swedish internet radio station, which lets users create and listen to a playlist of songs. These can be free if users are happy to listen to adverts. Those that don’t want to be disturbed by adverts can pay a £10 monthly subscription.

However, until now people have only been able to use the service to stream songs rather than download them. This means they haven’t been able to transfer the track onto an MP3 player.

To download the tracks they are listening to on Spotify, users can now click on the 'Buy From 7Digital' link. This will take them to the 7Digital website where they can buy MP3 files from a catalogue of six million tracks.

7Digital also said users would be able to purchase all the tracks on the playlists they had created on Spotify.

Daniel Ek, founder of Spotify, said: "Spotify is a great way to listen to and discover music and, through integration with 7Digital, our users can now take their digital music with them wherever they go.

"We're committed to developing the world's largest streaming music catalogue, and 7Digital's huge catalogue of high-quality MP3 downloads makes them an ideal partner for us.”

Single tracks from the 7Digital website cost from 89p. Albums are priced from £3.