Moving my music collection to the Cloud with Lala
I recently found Lala, a free service which lets you take your music collection with you, so you can listen to it anywhere using a web browser.
They have more than 7 Million songs, it's easy to find new music, but my favorite feature is the ability to have my music collection, of 45 thousand songs, on any device connected to the Internet: My machine at work, my cell phone, my laptop. The ability to walk into my friends home and turn on a play list is convenient.
Lala also sells songs, provided as 2 options. You can either listen to the song online (10 cents), or download and keep as a DRM-free (non-copy-protected) MP3 file (89 cents). If you purchase a song to listen to online, and decide later you want to own it, you can buy it for the difference (79 cents).
The free Music Mover tool quickly uploads music from your computer to your Lala collection, and is smart enough to compare what you have and what files they already have, so when I added a few thousand songs, only a handful needed to be uploaded.
I'm enjoying listening without any commercial interruptions, and their website is also ad-less. The interface is similar to iTunes, and pretty easy to figure out.
Lala gets an A, for providing a useful and entertaining service via the Internet, and for keeping our office rocking.
They have more than 7 Million songs, it's easy to find new music, but my favorite feature is the ability to have my music collection, of 45 thousand songs, on any device connected to the Internet: My machine at work, my cell phone, my laptop. The ability to walk into my friends home and turn on a play list is convenient.
Lala also sells songs, provided as 2 options. You can either listen to the song online (10 cents), or download and keep as a DRM-free (non-copy-protected) MP3 file (89 cents). If you purchase a song to listen to online, and decide later you want to own it, you can buy it for the difference (79 cents).
The free Music Mover tool quickly uploads music from your computer to your Lala collection, and is smart enough to compare what you have and what files they already have, so when I added a few thousand songs, only a handful needed to be uploaded.
I'm enjoying listening without any commercial interruptions, and their website is also ad-less. The interface is similar to iTunes, and pretty easy to figure out.
Lala gets an A, for providing a useful and entertaining service via the Internet, and for keeping our office rocking.