This internet based music host service launched in October (2009) with over 7 million songs in their catalog. They are apparently the only service that has agreements with the four major record labels that allow them to play any (yes, any) song in their collection for free. Not a snippet of the song but the whole song!
Here is the catch, if you were waiting, that full length listen is free the first time. If you go to play that song again you get 30-seconds (like iTunes and others). But you can purchase a song to listen to again and again in your computer for only 10-cents.
Here is the difference between iTunes or another application that 'sits' on your computer is that LaLa saves the music on their servers. So you are using an interface/menu that is based in a web browser.
The cool part about this, is that you can log into your LaLa account from any computer that has internet access... so over at a friends house, while visiting family, at your office - you can connect and listen to the music you have in your LaLa collection.
As I mentioned previously, you can 'own' or add any song in their collection to your LaLa account (they call it your collection) for only 10-cents. If you wish to export that song you pay a fee of 89-cents for each song that is exported as an MP3 file (the file format that most portable music devices use). For those who wish to use these songs in their videos - you can extract the file as an MP3 file and bring it into your editor as a file or burn to a CD as well. And I should add, that if you already purchased a song for 10-cents that is deducted for those songs you wish to export as MP3 files!
Thanks to LaLa.com I have been listening to some songs I all but forgot.
This is a really cool find!
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