Lala's New Music Service: Stream What You Already Own, Buy What You Don't
The music service Lala went through some tumultuous times over the past few years. It started out as a way of swapping CDs by mail, then tried to break into the digital music arena by purchasing Woxy.com, and now it's shown back up to the party in a new suit with the beta version of an updated Lala.com.
Lala is now selling DRM-free MP3s for 89 cents each, as well as streaming-only "web songs" for a dime each. The latter's a bit of a sticky proposition--it's nice that you can get a streaming album for under a buck in most cases, but it feels a bit like paying for a version of imeem.com, which provides essentially the same service for free. The one advantage here is that songs in your imeem playlists can occasionally disappear as profiles shutdown or have full streaming rights stripped, whereas you'll always have access to your Lala web songs, since Lala pays liscensing fees to the RIAA and imeem doesn't. You can also listen to any song or album once for free if you're just looking for new music, and Lala provides an intelligent suggestion engine to provide plenty of fodder for exploration.
But forget all that, because in my opinion it's not the one feature that's truly worth signing up for. Lala will scan your hard drive for music you already own--even DRM'ed iTunes songs--and unlock them as web songs in Lala's own catalog, meaning you can listen to your music anywhere you have a web browser. It's similar to the now-defunct My.Mp3.com, except it's entirely legal. They're giving you credit on their site for owning your own music, which is a refreshing attitude and ensured that I was stumbling over myself getting to the "sign up" button. There's even rumor that a relevant iPhone app supporting these streams is coming sooner rather than later, which would give you the same mobile functionality as a Simplify server, without the need to leave your home PC/server on all the time (or at all).
There are two things to keep in mind about this, however: one, you're limited to what's in Lala's catalog, which is extensive at around 6 million songs and growing, but not exhaustive, so your more obscure musical gems may not be available. Second, unlocking the songs depends a lot on the quality of your ID3 tags and/or metadata, so if you've ripped a bunch of your own CDs but haven't tagged them, you can save yourself a lot of time by using iTunes or any other music application with Gracenote/CDDB support to automatically pull album info before you use Lala's Music Mover tool. However, if you've got a lot of time on your hands, you can upload your unmatched songs to Lala. But note that all of this is for streaming through a browser on other computers only--even if you upload music to Lala, you won't be able to download it to another computer unless you buy a digital copy.
But still! Those of us with work laptops are rejoicing at the thought of being able to stream our home music collections without the need to muck about with server settings or RDP/VNC access. And the arrival of an iPhone/iPod touch app means the virtually unlimited capacity of a Simplify server without any setup beyond the initial uploading of your music.
Check it out for yourself and sign up for beta access at Lala.com.
--Aric A.
Bob Mulholland on October 22, 2008 at 03:55 PM
Just for the record: ".89 cents" is not "89 cents".
".89 cents" is eighty-nine one-hundredths of a penny.
.89 cents = $0.0089
89 cents = $0.89
Is this really that hard for people to grasp? It's basic currency math.
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