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I miss Lala, at least the final streaming iteration. It had iTunes Match for FREE years ago. You would upload your library to Lala, they would decide what they
by RandallBrown 14y ago
I miss Lala, at least the final streaming iteration. It had iTunes Match for FREE years ago. You would upload your library to Lala, they would decide what they already had and just let you stream that, then anything they didn't have would get uploaded. It was iTunes in the cloud. Their webapp was phenomenal, especially by 2009 standards.
I had big expectations for Lala after Apple bought them. I thought they might actually get a true iTunes in the cloud built.
- ceworthington 14y ago+1 to this. I am on Rdio now for $10/mo, and I easily would have paid Lala the same monthly fee for their service. I assume they were in bad shape because they had to pay every time someone streamed a song, and not enough of their users wound up paying them for streaming access. Too many loss leaders.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoWhat I liked about LaLa is that you didn't have a monthly fee, and browser-only purchases were dirt cheap, $0.10 for most songs if I remember correctly. I don't listen to enough music to make Radio or Spotify worth it for me, but I could buy a couple of albums to listen in the browser for 2 or 3 dollars every now and then.
- acdha 14y agoThis is what MP3.com offered in 1999. The only difference was the legal agreements so the record companies wouldn't sue on dubious grounds.