7digital brought its 13 million track-strong music store to the BlackBerry Playbook earlier this year , and it feels like it now has another new platform in its sights. The corporate confirmed today that it plans to release a music store app for Windows Phone 7.5 devices in January, apparently with a bit help from a partnership with Microsoft. The app itself will seemingly be akin to those found on other platforms (Metro UI styling aside), including the power to preview tracks before purchasing, and lower quality files that may be downloaded over 3G and later upgraded when a WiFi connection is obtainable. As well as that rather large music library, 7digital’s store may be notable for offering a lot of its tracks in 24-bit FLAC format, with the quality offering being 320kbps MP3 files — 7digital also claims to now have 3 million customers. What’s more, the corporate also announced today that it’ll begin expanding its North American operations within the new year, complete with some new offices and a brand new president of 7digital North America: Vickie Nauman, who came to 7digital from Sonos and have been serving as VP before. The click release is after the break.
7digital expands its device reach to Windows® Phone devices including the Nokia Lumia series
Windows® device users can browse 7digital’s 17 million strong music catalogue, download and listen without leaving the app
App may be available over 35 countries including US, Europe and Asia.
London, UK, 6th December 2011 – 7digital, the leading digital media company, today announced its mobile service could be available in 2012 on Microsoft’s new range of Windows Phone devices.
The 7digital Windows Phone app is a download store that provides users access to 7digital’s 17 million strong catalogue of top quality MP3 tracks. Users can browse, preview, purchase and download music to their Windows Phone, anytime, anywhere.
‘All-in-one’ app features include:
Discover – Users can browse music by genre and new releases in addition to look for artist, track or album names. 7digital’s top track and album charts also are available
Preview – 30 to 90 second previews of all tracks are available in before purchase
Purchase – An in-app store for users to simply browse, purchase and download music straight to their Windows device whilst still hearing their music
Download – Tracks will download in a compressed, lower quality format when using a cellular network, for fast listening. When a WiFi connection is on the market, the purchased track can also be upgraded to a whole MP3 320kbps quality file
Synch – Users can access and synchronise tracks they’ve stored locally on their device, in addition to from their 7digital cloud locker into the 7digital app player
Listen – Playlists may well be created and managed from inside the application.
“We’re continuing to peer demand from customers for access to their music on all their devices, whatever the manufacturer or operating system. With the launch of our Windows Phone app, we’re continuing to work towards the realisation of our vision to give anytime anywhere access to music for our customers” comments Ben Drury, 7digital CEO.
“7digital customers now have access to their high-quality music on an entire new range of mobile devices. In addition to Windows Phone devices, 7digital can be available natively at the Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets, BlackBerry devices, and may be downloaded as an app for all Android devices”.
“7digital is ‘platform agnostic’ and by working closely with Microsoft on its Windows devices we’re in the direction of our goal of having the ability to present our customers access to their entire music collection on all in their devices, any time they need to access it.”
The applying is out there to Windows mobile users in 35 territories including UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden and Norway. Track currency and pricing is localised for users in each region.
Further information on 7digital’s mobile applications is on the market at 7digital.com/mobile.
The 7digital Windows app uses the Windows Metro UI and is compatible with Windows 7.5 ‘Mango’ OS and above.
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7digital To Expand North American Operations
Vickie Nauman appointed President of 7digital-North America to expand and grow 7digital’s global business
London, UK, 6th December 2011 – 7digital, the leading digital media company, today announced the corporate could be expanding its North American operation and opening US offices beginning January 2012 in keeping with its growing business.
Leading the stateside effort may be newly appointed President of 7digital North America, Vickie Nauman, who have been serving as Vp since Q4 2009 when the corporate acquired its US and Canadian music rights. Nauman will oversee business development, strategy, partnerships, label relations, and marketing. As a partner-friendly company, 7digital seeks to expand its growing base of clients and strategic partners that currently includes T-Mobile USA, HP, RIM, Samsung, Songbird, AOL’s Winamp, and Fantrail. By using 7digital’s platform, hundreds of world clients have built music initiatives on 7digital’s API platform (Application Programming Interface), designed to simplify the mixing of music into third party efforts.
“The last two years was filled with constant change within the digital landscape, and we’ve been steadily building our profile and partnerships within the US and Canada,” comments Ben Drury 7digital CEO and co-founder, “Vickie has led these efforts and should now lead an expanded presence with new staff and office. We glance forward to with the ability to provide enhanced services to our customers and partners in 2012.”
Commenting at the North American business, Nauman says, “The united states market has its own dynamics and wishes, and because the digital music market evolves, it’s getting tougher in finding neutral, strategic partners, that’s exactly the role we fulfill. Now we have established an important choice of North American-based clients in addition to a growing business selling 320K MP3s on 7digital.com. Everyone wants a best-in-class experience, a whole music catalogue, and a mixture of music ownership and cloud-based services, and we’re uniquely positioned to deliver this globally.”
Nauman joined 7digital from Sonos, where she established global partnerships between wireless digital music system for the house with music companies Last.fm, Spotify, SiriusXM, RadioTime, Pandora, Rhapsody, Napster, and Deezer. Sooner than Sonos, Nauman managed a world and media-focused consultancy CrossBorderWorks, created the net services for boutique Seattle
radio station KEXP, served at the product team of MusicNet at RealNetworks, and earned a 2006 MBA in the course of the London School of Economics, Manhattan University, and HEC-Paris, within the collaborative executive program TRIUM.
All technology and platform operations will remain within the company’s London headquarters and a small team will manage all partnerships and business within the North American market. Nauman will remain based in L. a., and the team will likely have presence on both the west and east coast in addition to maintain its dedicated North American team in London.
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