Divide By Zero - a blog by Kamran Ayub

If you don't know about Lala, you're missing out. I heard about it on Buzz Out Loud and decided to give it a try, it's awesome.

Basically, there are several things you can do:

• You can buy albums/songs as "streaming only" versions for only 10 cents. Albums cost 80 cents.
• You can buy the MP3 for 89 cents. If you bought the web only version, then it's only 79 cents to upgrade.
• You can listen to any album or song the first time for free.
• You can match your collection to Lala's and access your collection online anytime, anywhere for free.
• Oh yah, it's DRM free.

I think what really makes Lala great is the ability to listen to any song or album you want for free the first time. This really does it for me since I like to listen to all sorts of artists but Amazon/iTunes/everywhere only has 30 second previews which are useless. With Lala, I can listen to the whole album before buying. The quality is also great, I'd guess 128kbps.

The other thing that makes Lala awesome is the ability to buy web only versions of the song. This is great because it's cheaper at the expense of not being able to put it on my MP3 player.

Of course, if you buy the web songs… you have to hope that Lala stays in business to keep your songs. I would assume that if it happened that they had to close, they'd refund your songs.