Comments on: Lala Opens Music Locker and DRM-free MP3 Store http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-10/lala-opens-music-locker-and-drm-free-mp3-store/ All your digital media goodness. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Pete http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-10/lala-opens-music-locker-and-drm-free-mp3-store/comment-page-1/#comment-83602 Pete Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:31:00 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=5263#comment-83602 I've been a lala member for years. Originally, they were a used CD trading service - I've traded about 50 CDs. For about $1.75 per disc, you can get as many CDs sent to you as you send away to others. I was able to clear out some of the cruft from my collection, and it was nice. However, CD trading slowed way down, and they bought WOXY when they were about to be shut down. Free streaming music was nice, but unsustainable (they didn't have anything as good as Pandora...) and they've now re-positioned themselves a third time. Now, while trading is still performed on a limited basis, they are focused on being a place to buy music for streaming and for DRM-free download. My main hope is that they release an iPhone / iPod Touch application, similar to the Pandora application, so that I can listen to my purchased (whether through free credits or by $0.10/ea) streaming music on my iPod. Otherwise I'm stuck only listening to it when I'm willing to tether my ears to a computer, which isn't as often as you'd think. The "match the songs" feature is a great idea, but may be begging for trouble with the record industry... What is to stop people from "matching" the gigs of music they got from Napster back in the day? I’ve been a lala member for years. Originally, they were a used CD trading service – I’ve traded about 50 CDs. For about $1.75 per disc, you can get as many CDs sent to you as you send away to others. I was able to clear out some of the cruft from my collection, and it was nice. However, CD trading slowed way down, and they bought WOXY when they were about to be shut down. Free streaming music was nice, but unsustainable (they didn’t have anything as good as Pandora…) and they’ve now re-positioned themselves a third time. Now, while trading is still performed on a limited basis, they are focused on being a place to buy music for streaming and for DRM-free download.

My main hope is that they release an iPhone / iPod Touch application, similar to the Pandora application, so that I can listen to my purchased (whether through free credits or by $0.10/ea) streaming music on my iPod. Otherwise I’m stuck only listening to it when I’m willing to tether my ears to a computer, which isn’t as often as you’d think.

The “match the songs” feature is a great idea, but may be begging for trouble with the record industry… What is to stop people from “matching” the gigs of music they got from Napster back in the day?

]]> By: Mari Silbey http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-10/lala-opens-music-locker-and-drm-free-mp3-store/comment-page-1/#comment-83597 Mari Silbey Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:16:57 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=5263#comment-83597 Reminds me of the Slacker Premium service. For $10/mo you can favorite any song in your radio streams (custom and pre-packaged) and it is instantly accessible any time. That's more money than Lala, but with Slacker you don't need to be online. Slacker saves any favorited songs to my Slacker mp3 player. In other words, the song is downloaded but captive on my player and my PC. Love the "match the songs" feature for Lala. Simple. Brilliant. Reminds me of the Slacker Premium service. For $10/mo you can favorite any song in your radio streams (custom and pre-packaged) and it is instantly accessible any time. That’s more money than Lala, but with Slacker you don’t need to be online. Slacker saves any favorited songs to my Slacker mp3 player. In other words, the song is downloaded but captive on my player and my PC.

Love the “match the songs” feature for Lala. Simple. Brilliant.

]]> By: MikesTooLz http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-10/lala-opens-music-locker-and-drm-free-mp3-store/comment-page-1/#comment-83595 MikesTooLz Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:20:42 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=5263#comment-83595 hey dave, hows it going? hey dave, hows it going?

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