10 cents legal music tracks for your iPhone? You better believe it!

Posted by james on October 22nd, 2008 at 09:41pm Comments

Lala.com, a music downloads service that was launched at the beginning of this year, is now offering a new and rather interesting way to listen to music: they are offering over 6 million tracks from 4 major records labels and many indie labels for only 10 cents a track.

Too good to be true, you might say, and you would be partially right. The caveat of this offer is that those tracks can’t be downloaded onto one’s computer or portable music player, but rather have to be streamed via the internet. The upside is that the program remembers which tracks you’ve purchased, so you could listen to them as many times as you like. For only 10 cents per track.

Regular, downloadable tracks retail for 89 cents (or 79 cents if you’ve already purchased the streamed version), which is still 10 cents lower than what the iTunes music store charges. And unlike iTunes, Lala’s music tracks come without DRM protection.

Another cool feature that Lala offers, is that users are able to transfer their MP3’s and iTunes database to Lala, which will match the tracks you own to their own database, creating a list of tracks that you already own, thus enabling you to easily (and freely) add them.

Yet another cool feature is that you can listen to any track or album once for absolutely free, without having to purchase it. That offers users a chance to sample new music free of charge.

So where does the iPhone come in? According to a Lala.com representative, the company is currently working on a native iPhone app for Lala, that will allow users to easily use the streaming 10 cents per track option on their iPhone or iPod Touch devices. Lala will offer more details and launch dates for their iPhone app soon.

In the meantime you can go to Lala.com’s website and test this service — currently the company offers 50 free tracks as a gift to new subscribers.

Thanks to Gizmodo.

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