It's a sad day. LaLa is dead.

Googer

Lifer
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Just got sad new to my inbox:



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This is an automated message. Please do not reply.

Dear **** *******,

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

©2005-2010 la la media, inc. All rights reserved.
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Sad, In my opinion Lala was the best music service on the internet, I got much more enjoyment out of it than iTUNES will ever provide.

http://www.lala.com/




FROM: http://www.lala.com/shutdown

The Lala service will be shut down on May 31, 2010.
Service Available through May 31, 2010
You will be able to access and play all music in your Lala collection through May 31, 2010. Any mp3 songs purchased and downloaded from Lala will continue to play as part of your local music library. You can continue to purchase mp3 songs through May 31st using your wallet balance or other payment methods.

As of today, web songs, wallets, and gift cards are no longer available for purchase on Lala. Uploads have been discontinued, and we are not accepting new users for the service.

Refunds and Credits
Web songs. In appreciation of your support, you will receive a credit in the amount of your Lala web song purchases for use on Apple's iTunes Store.

Wallet balances. If you have an outstanding wallet balance on May 31st, we will also issue you an iTunes Store credit for that amount. If you prefer to have your wallet balance refunded to you via check, you must make that request by May 31st.

Unredeemed Gift Cards. Gift cards can be redeemed on Lala until May 31st. The gift card amount will be added to your wallet balance, and included as part of your wallet balance refund.
 
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0roo0roo

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she lives...

Sorry, nsfw image removed. -Admin DrPizza
 
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QueBert

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Now I'm curious... what was in the image that was removed?

Google Images, it's a chick, not Carmelo Anthonys wifey but some other female named Lala, never heard of her until this thread. The pic moved was PG-13 not sure why it got removed but such is ATOT sometimes...
 

Fritzo

Lifer
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I read the title and thought this was about the Tellytubbies.


Same here! :D

RIP:

Lala.jpg
 

Anubis

No Lifer
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tbqhwy.com
i should come out of my hole more often i had never heard of lala before they announced it was shutting down
 

Googer

Lifer
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i should come out of my hole more often i had never heard of lala before they announced it was shutting down

Enjoy it while you still can.
It's was like pandora but better. You could stream very high quality (320k?) mp3 files to your computer. (pandora's upgraded $$ account allowed for 192k max) Lala is clearly higher.

It was like iTUNES. But sold mp3's for 10 cents each.

It was like an old record shop, you could trade or buy used cd's for very cheap.

Apple buys out cheaper competitor (lala, the walmart of MP3 biz). Now Apple can maintain their dominance on the downloadable music market.

Register for a free lala account today and experience what could have been before it's too late.

http://www.lala.com/


EDIT:
Take some sample tracks for a spin.

Pink Floyd: Money
http://popup.lala.com/popup/576742248995940975

Michael Jackson: Thriller
http://popup.lala.com/popup/504684650713660642

Michael Jackson: Number Ones (I have the cd, sounds very close to the remastered version) Try Thriller 2003, hear a difference.
http://www.lala.com/#album/504684633539785354/Michael_Jackson/Number_Ones
 
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Googer

Lifer
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Apple bought it just to kill it?

Begin your Apple boycott now.. They are worse than what the DOJ thought of MS in the 90s. But being a bunch of tree lubbing, earth hugging hippies that apple is, our highly liberal government probably wont touch them; no matter how wrong they are.

APPLE SUCKS ASS
 
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Babbles

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I have been a fan and user of Lala for a little while now and I am exceedingly pissed at Apple right now. While most people seem to think that computing is going to the cloud, much like what Lala was doing with their music service, Apple decides to screw people over and take a few steps back.

Innovation my ass.