Lala, a web music startup that lets you buy and build your msuic library in the cloud, will be releasing an iphone app that streams the songs from you library on the cloud to your iphone.
While some of Apple’s traditional iPods have massive storage capacities, many people have abandoned them favor of iPhones, which offer more functionality but much less space for the money (most people have either 8GB or 16GB models). And given that these devices are also used to store applications and video files, many of us find us having to pick and choose which songs we want to carry around with us.
With Lala, you don’t have to worry about that. The app streams the songs from Lala’s servers, in much the same way Pandora
does. But unlike Pandora and similar radio apps, you can chose any song from your music library whenever you want.
Unfortunately, it still may be a while before everyone can get their hands on the app. Lala says that there isn’t any concrete release date for the iPhone application, explaining that it still needs work on a number of fronts. For one, the app still has obvious bugs (some text fields don’t update correctly, and sometimes a button won’t work). But perhaps more important, it sounds like the company may still have some legal hurdles to wrangle, and it also needs to fine tune its monetization strategy. Hopefully it won’t be too long - this app would be a boon for users with large music libraries, and would also offer a huge boost to the Lala service as a whole.
Here is the video of Techcrunch’s demo of the lala iphone app: