1) No subscription requirement. I'm not convinced that the average consumer spends $120 a year on music and wants that expense every month of paying for a MOG, Spotify or Rdio.
2) Extremely low per-song price made "impulse" buys easy.
3) Matching your library to their catalog without uploading.
4) A really nice web interface. Extremely good for 2 years ago. Amazon's is so-so, and I haven't tried Google's yet (looks good from screenshots). I doubt Apple will do one at all.
I forgot all about that, yes that was a killer feature as well. That turned out to be the killer feature for Google's music search as well, and made it infinitely less valuable when Lala went away.
1) No subscription requirement. I'm not convinced that the average consumer spends $120 a year on music and wants that expense every month of paying for a MOG, Spotify or Rdio.
2) Extremely low per-song price made "impulse" buys easy.
3) Matching your library to their catalog without uploading.
4) A really nice web interface. Extremely good for 2 years ago. Amazon's is so-so, and I haven't tried Google's yet (looks good from screenshots). I doubt Apple will do one at all.