Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31

dirk and a large number of other distressed readers let us know that Apple is shuttering Lala, the music service they bought last December, on May 31. "Apple will transfer any remaining money in a user's account to iTunes, and will credit users (via iTunes) for any web songs that were purchased. It's a real shame, as Lala was a much better music service, offering songs in straight MP3 format. Its web service was innovative and ahead of its time. And it was one of the few places that would let you listen to an entire song to sample it (after one complete listen, you then could only hear a 30-second sample)." Reader Dhandforth adds: "10-cent favorites will now cost 9.9x more. What's worse, a community of music fans (followers and followees) will disappear on May 31. Evil. Sigh."

Comments

Oblig. Grammar Nazi

[essjaytee]

It's? Really?

Re:Oblig. Grammar Nazi

[mrpiddly]

Grammar errors are less distressing than blatantly subjective writing.

Kinky

[geekoid]

Well I left home just a week before
and I'd never ever cd's before
but Lala smiled and
took me by the hand
and said "Dear boy
I'm gonna make you a man"

Then Apple broke her spine,
and I'll never trade cd Again.

oh my Lala, la-la, la-la, la la Lala!