Lately I've been interested in finding ways to stream music to/from portable devices and computers, I recently found Lala. Lala is an online music store that allows you to buy web songs/albums. Web songs are only 10 cents to buy and you can listen to the song as many times online (not a download) and a web album is the same, but range from around 50 cents to $1.50. What is even better is that buying a web song or album, deducts that cost from the full download. So if you wanted to listen to a new song or album online for awhile before making a full purchase, you won't have to worry about paying twice for something you already have. I have actually found that most individual songs are either 79 cents or 89 cents, with very few 99 cent songs. Even albums are occasionally cheaper than other music stores like iTunes and Amazon.
Now what does all of this have to do about streaming your music? Well every song or album you buy is put in your online library. You can go on any computer, sign into your account and start playing a song. So simple and nice because of the easy access. However, the fun doesn't end there because you are also able to upload your music library from your computer. With the free Lala Music Mover application, you just effortlessly select your music folder and it does the rest of the work. So you can have access to your entire music library from any computer with internet (and flash).
Since it uses flash you can not use Lala with a mobile device (
at least not yet), but with Lala's merger with Apple there may be hope for an iPhone app soon. So tell me what you think of it. I'm definitely going to be using this site often for my music purchases. Thanks for reading and I hope this was useful to you. If you do want to sign up, please use this link:
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