did i tell you all the reasons why lala is amazing?
Holy crap, the best thing about Lala is that it's extremely social.
You add your friends, and you can see all their listens, ratings, favorites...
you can send each other songs easily, recommend albums, buy each other music.
It's a streaming music service.
here's how it works, though.
You can listen to anything you want for free.
If you want to listen to it unlimited, you have to 'add it to your collection.' -- it's usually around $0.09 a song.. or around $0.90 an album.
the music collection itself is extremely vast and very well organized.
No duplicate song names, no duplicate artist names.
very organized.
so if you do add music to your collection, it's totally organized.
there's a web-based player that's really intuitive.
you can create playlists and share them.
you can browse people's playlists and easily "add this playlist to my collection."
So if someone puts up this awesome 50 song playlist, you can bookmark it and play it again.
you can easily tweet or facebook what you're listening to, which is fun.
and it has a "music mover"
that sits in your system tray and will sync your MP3 collection with Lala -- You get unlimited space!
you can upload all your music to it and stream it from anywhere!
you can also edit tags from within the player.
And they're building a mobile app, so you can listen to your library from your phone!
and personally, for an independent artist, it's amazing for me.
it's by far the easiest way for people to listen to and purchase my music.
oh you also have the option of actually buying the MP3 version of a song if you /want/ to download it.
If you want the mp3, normal rates apply (around $0.99).
but i've found i don't NEED the mp3s... i'm always online, so streaming is totally preferred for me now.
i don't have to WORRY about any of that.
if i have something I absolutely NEED on my harddrive, i'll download it. but it's rare.
and lala also has a great way of actually giving royalties to directly to the aritsts, so, you're supporting the music community TOO.
it's also super easy to "queue" songs to the end of what you're currently listening to.
and queue albums, too. if you hover over a play button, a queue link always appears.
OH! you can also go to someone's profile, look at their "most listened to" or "highest reviewed" songs and just start playing them back to back.
so it's super easy to hear your friends' favorite songs.
so BOOM. that's why lala RULES.
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