As you probably already know, I'm as intrigued with music-related technology (web/software based) as I am with the music itself. For the most part, I believe that most digital music distribution models have it wrong, though they've been making strides with going DRM-Free. However, if I were to imagine a service that I would pay to use, that would be Lala. This article pointed me to it and I'm somewhat impressed with their business plan. To quickly summarize...
- Listen to any song once for free
- Choose to listen to it unlimited times online for 10¢
- or Choose to buy the song (DRM-Free) for .79¢
- Finally... it integrates with your current library for songs you already own
Not bad.
LaLa, The Black Sheep Of Music Startups, Just May Have The Right Formula
by Michael Arrington on December 16, 2008LaLa doesn’t get nearly as much attention as the other streaming music services, probably because they actually charge users to listen to music. Sites like MySpace Music, Imeem and Last.fm all stream music for free these days. But LaLa only lets you listen to a song once. After that, you have to “buy” it for ten cents to listen to it as many times as you like, and add it to playlists.
Seems like a non-starter, right? But wait, there are a few reasons why LaLa has a real chance at success. First, they have an absolutely exceptional user experience, which was completely relaunched in October (and we loved it). Unlike all of the other services, LaLa gets you to the music you want to hear as quickly as possible, whether it’s... [From LaLa, The Black Sheep Of Music Startups, Just May Have The Right Formula]
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