...wonder if we will see a LaLa app supporting streaming over WiFi![]()
it's already in the que awaiting approval. They also have developed Blackberry, Android and Palm Pre apps that I am sure now will go away.
...wonder if we will see a LaLa app supporting streaming over WiFi![]()
You know what's wrong with these online services? Lossy codecs. Most of them are 128k MP3. They ought to be shot for pushing such junk. If they were selling 24/192k tracks downconverted direct from the 8-bit DSD master I'd be buying. I don't need Red Book compatible tracks on a download, and I can always downconvert to 16/44k any time I need to.
is this why they wanted that large server farm thing out in texas or were ever it was. I see no issues at all with this just adds more music to the libary. Shame i live in the uk. yes we have lastfm but pandora and this lala service seem to offer more options. Of course we have to wait for the legal issues to be resolved so the rest of the world can use this service
So again, why is everyone happy about this? Apple will likely take LaLa's backend and incorporate to iTunes and then shut LaLa down. So for consumers this is not a good thing.
I don't know why so many are happy about this. I love Apple hardware as much as the next around here, but I can see no good coming from this purchase. Will Apple keep LaLa's lower song prices? Doubt it. Even if they want to the music labels will ask Apple to renegotiate. Will Apple allow users to listen to an entire song, not just a random 30 sec. snippet? Not likely.
So again, why is everyone happy about this? Apple will likely take LaLa's backend and incorporate to iTunes and then shut LaLa down. So for consumers this is not a good thing.
A lot of kool-aid drinkers around here. Lala is a great service. It's not going to make iTunes better, just make songs more expensive. And as for stream on the iPhone or touch, memory is easier to come by than battery life. You can't stream music long before your battery takes a hit. You can play from RAM for hours & hours.
Power Mac G4 Cube?
Other than that in the last decade what else have you got?
Whatever Apple touches usually turns to gold, especially services such as this.
The Newton's only failure was being ahead of it's time.
I still will never rent music.
And still I don't care. 1.29 a song or 9.99 an album is no skin off my nose. If you have access to that much music, you won't have the same appreciation for the songs. I also like to physically own things (or digitally in this case.) Would you rent CDs and give them back? No.
Macs cost a lot more when the cube came out. At the time you could not buy an iMac with a G4 processor, so if you wanted a G4 mac the cube was the budget model compared to the G4 tower. For $800 less you got a G4 mac that didn't have as much expansion capability as a tower. This is similar to current differences between the mac mini and the mac pro.
You know what's wrong with these online services? Lossy codecs. Most of them are 128k MP3. They ought to be shot for pushing such junk. If they were selling 24/192k tracks downconverted direct from the 8-bit DSD master I'd be buying. I don't need Red Book compatible tracks on a download, and I can always downconvert to 16/44k any time I need to.
Apple HiFi
Apple has become evil and they are buying Lala to destroy. I never use iTunes to buy music because it is expensive and have no way to listen to a whole song before buying. Apple has become an evil empire because of people like me who don't mind getting shafted by apple periodically buying their overpriced products and recommending them to everyone I know.