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The idea of uploading and storing "my music" seems antiquated; what difference does it make if my bits are copied over there vs sharing access to the exact same
by krosaen 16y ago
The idea of uploading and storing "my music" seems antiquated; what difference does it make if my bits are copied over there vs sharing access to the exact same bits? Given that they acquired lala.com, I hope they go with their model: you "buy" a streaming album cheaply (was ~$0.10 per song) and get unlimited streaming for good, except this time they wouldn't get acquired and refund my money for lousy itunes gift certificates :) And if in addition to the right to stream unlimited, they let you sync offline to your mobile device ala rdio or spotify, then they have a winner.
- kenjackson 16y agoThe idea of uploading and storing "my music" seems antiquated; Except for at least a few issues: 1) Encoding quality. For CDs I ripped from the encoding quality is pretty high. I'd like the option to playback with my higher encoding quality. 2) Probably 1/5 of my music collection doesn't exist in iTunes. 3) I've never bought anything rom iTunes, so they'd have to determine what music I had locally. That seems like its fraught with peril.
- krosaen 16y agoyeah, good points. I think lala was pretty good about granting access to music you already owned: - they matched your collection and automatically granted you "ownership" to anything they had license to - anything they didn't, the desktop app actually uploaded it to host on their servers so you could still host it I can't remember the encoding quality but it was good enough for quality headphones / programming for my taste.