Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek recently blogged that “we’ve admittedly not made it easy for our users to buy music. That’s an area we need to improve”.Well, that improvement didn't take long – Spotify is going live today with new purchasing features in its desktop application.Music Ally got early access to see how it all works. It's tied in with Spotify's existing retail partner 7digital.From today, every track on Spotify that's also in 7digital's catalogue will have a clear Buy button next to the track name (see pic above – click to make it larger). Albums will also have a Buy Album button below the cover artwork.Already, this is a step up from the way buying songs previously worked – you had to right-click on a track to see if it was available to buy, before being shunted into your web browser to do the buying.Which is where the second change comes in – clicking on the new Buy buttons doesn't take you to a website any more: it pops up a window within the Spotify application itself (pic on right – click for larger).You're shown the quality of the MP3 downloads (256kbps in the case of the Muse album we [...]
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