7digital music store app headed to Windows Phone in January

Earlier of this year, 7digital brought its music store with about 13 million track-strong music to BlackBerry Playbook. And now, with the help from Microsoft, this company confirmed that it plans to release the music store app for Windows Phone 7.5 devices in January, 2012.

The app itself will seemingly be similar to those found on other platforms (Metro UI styling aside), including the ability to preview tracks before purchasing, and lower quality files that can be downloaded over 3G and later upgraded when a WiFi connection is available. In addition to that rather large music library, 7digital's store is also notable for offering many of its tracks in 24-bit FLAC format, with the standard offering being 320kbps MP3 files -- 7digital also claims to now have 3 million customers.

What's more, the company also announced today that it will begin expanding its North American operations in the next year, complete with some new offices and a new president of 7digital North America: Vickie Nauman, who came to 7digital from Sonos and has been serving as VP until now. The press release is after the break.