Forget Pandora ! Lala streams your music from it's servers

[nmhusa]

www.lala.com

Registered with the service. Used the music match software to register the 6000+ songs on my harddrive. Using Skyfire on my TP2, I can access my complete catalog of music via Lala and stream any song, playlist etc from the Lala server without my home PC being turned on. Even better there isn't an App for that on the iPhart.

Also allows connection with Facebook, Twitter etc for those of us that are socially connected that way.

[boggsie]

Originally Posted by nmhusa

www.lala.com

Registered with the service. Used the music match software to register the 6000+ songs on my harddrive. Using Skyfire on my TP2, I can access my complete catalog of music via Lala and stream any song, playlist etc. Even better there isn't an App for that on the iPhart.

Also allows connection with Facebook, Twitter etc for those of us that are socially connected that way.

Interesting; so does your PC have to be on and connected in order to stream, or do they stream from their servers, based on knowledge / inventory of your music catalog?

I think one of the nice things about Pandora, is that it permits (permitted?) streaming of songs that you didn't own.

Thank you for sharing!

Best regards,
-boggsie

[mr_musiq07]

Is there a mobile app for this? And Technically Apple has Home Sharing on iTunes...It's a helluva beast!

[NIKKG]

Originally Posted by mr_musiq07

Is there a mobile app for this? And Technically Apple has Home Sharing on iTunes...It's a helluva beast!

Please don't you dare mention Apple or iTunes on this site or the losers here will call you a Troll.

[Phen0m]

I think apple owns lala ironically..

[nxtech3]

Originally Posted by NIKKG

Please don't you dare mention Apple or iTunes on this site or the losers here will call you a Troll.

This is the second thread in as many days i have seen this Troll mention nerds and losers. We are all part of a community, friends, some would even go as far as saying family. If you dont have anything constructive to add why dont you stop wasting time by writing non-helpful posts.

As far as lala, its pretty decent, couple of artists it couldnt find, but overall i would use it in conjuction with Pandora.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by boggsie

I think one of the nice things about Pandora, is that it permits (permitted?) streaming of songs that you didn't own.

Exactly.

It has always been possible to stream music (or video or pics ar anything else stored on your hard drives) from your home computer using ORB so that's really nothing new.

To me, Pandora rocks because it comes up with music I don't already own & sometimes comes up with song versions I haven't heard before.

~John

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by mr_musiq07

Technically Apple has Home Sharing on iTunes...It's a helluva beast!

yea & it works just fine but why do people always think it's necessary to bring up the iphone/itunes etc??

Can't anybody ever post a new app without saying "& you can't do this on an iphone"?? Most of the time when they say that, they are dead wrong & who cares anyway??

I also don't quite understand why everybody here hates itunes so much. I have a 2nd gen ipod touch, my 9 year old daughter has a nano & my son has a video ipod so obviously we use itunes all the time. itunes works super, doesn't force us to buy anything & does not interfere with my WM phone setup in any way, so why all the hate??

~John

[nmhusa]

Lala lets you play any song in its catalog without owning it. It also lets you buy songs to play on the web or download to your PC.

Unlike Pandora, you can create playlists and replay songs in any order (or at least thats what I was able to do on a free account).

Then the best part is that your home PC or drive with all your music DOES NOT need to be on when you are streaming music from Lala servers, i.e. after Lala music id checks that you actually have a digital copy of any song (via the downloadable application), you can legally listen to any of your music collection streamed from the Lala servers on any internet connected PC, or your TP2 (as I have done via Skyfire). Try it out and post your results.

[nmhusa]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

I also don't quite understand why everybody here hates itunes so much. I have a 2nd gen ipod touch, my 9 year old daughter has a nano & my son has a video ipod so obviously we use itunes all the time. itunes works super, doesn't force us to buy anything & does not interfere with my WM phone setup in any way, so why all the hate??

~John

My mostly hate relationship with itunes stems from the manner in which it manages music on my drive. At it's default settings it likes to do things that are unlike any other music program. Additionally, it is a resource hog, running multiple services in the background for ipods, quicktime etc that I have no interest in. Perhaps for a Mac user it might be a decent music program (possibly due to the lack of better alternatives), but on the PC, with the multitude of options out there, itunes is too limiting a program for my own use.