I got this in my inbox yesterday:
"Dear Cecilie H.,
The Lala service will be shut down on May 31st.
In appreciation of your support over the last five years, you will receive a credit in the amount of your Lala web song purchases for use on Apple's iTunes Store. If you purchased and downloaded mp3 songs from Lala, those songs will continue to play as part of your local music library. Remaining wallet balances and unredeemed gift cards will be converted to iTunes Store credit (or can be refunded upon request). Gift cards can be redeemed on Lala until May 31st.
Click here or visit Lala.com/support for more information, or to view Lala's Terms of Service.
Thank you.
Lala
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Damn you, iTunes (Apple)! What happened to your "little brother complex"?
As much as I love Apple gadgets I HATE iTunes for its paranoid "thief-thinks-everyone-steals" modus operandi. Why can't iTunes - and the music industry for that matter - understand that the best way to make people buy more music, is to make it easy to find more (related) music that people will like?! Which means: Let people listen on the web for free to explore music (like last.fm used to very good for, now less so, sadly).
My husband and I have bought just about ALL the music for the past 10 years after we stumbled upon it somewhere on the internet (most likely last.fm's "what your friends are listening to" & "what your neighbours are listening to"), the same goes for concerts.
Do we REALLY have to do it like we did in the 1980-90's: Go into a physical music shop, scroll through the piles of albums, bring some to the music bar/desk and ask them to play some tunes from each? Do we really need to pretend that the internet and digital music never happened?? Wake up iTunes/Apple!!!!
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