Purchases and downloads could be transferred to a CD or compatible digital music device.
Bell Sympatico and Microsoft partnered to launch the Sympatico/MSN Music Store on July 31, 2006.
Powered by Hip Digital Media Inc., the store initially offered 850,000 songs, but with ongoing support, this has risen to over 2 million.
The store was designed as MSN Music's portal in Canada, and featured various Microsoft integrations such as Bing and Hotmail.
When initially launched, the Sympatico / MSN Music Store offered their catalogue of songs on a pay-per-download basis (similar to that of iTunes).