Sent to you by David via Google Reader:
We've been playing around with lala for several days now and haven't had too many qualms with the service. Yes, we have our own extensive music collection, access to sites like Pandora or MixTape.me (developed by Adam) but lala has a few notable services of its own to recommend it.
You can choose to listen to songs by typing in an artist (LadyGaGa), theme (Christmas), or genre (Jazz), and lala will pull up a listing of tunes matching your search results. Without registering, you can listen to any song by clicking on the play button, but if you've taken the 30 seconds to register, you can hit play on a whole album to listen to while you go about your internet musings.
At first we were annoyed with the idea of not being able to listen to things more than once, but the more we started to play, the more we really got into the swing of things. There's been so many albums we've passed on downloading, not having heard the whole album, and it's been kind of refreshing to listen to new things outside of our own record collection.
It's an easy interface to look at and operate, and might allow you to check out a new release album before deciding to download or buy it for real. Lala isn't a brand new service by any means (it was originally a CD-trading service, incidentally), so if you've been using it recently, let's hear how you like it in the comments.
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