Opera and Spotify have partnered to make it easier for users to listen to their favorite music, podcasts, and more while browsing the web.

It has long been possible to listen to music from within Opera's browser. If you go down its sidebar, you'll see a player icon where you can choose from Apple Music, Spotify and Deezer and then log into any of them with your account details.

Opera announced that Spotify is now the default streaming service in its flagship desktop web browser, Opera One R2.

"People love listening to music and podcasts while at their computers. Now, with Spotify in the sidebar of Opera One, everything's right there at your fingertips – you can shop, write, plan a trip, all while never having to stop listening to your favorite music and audio via the browser's floating multimedia player,