Apple to Shut Down Music Streaming Service Lala

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Apple to Shut Down Music Streaming Service Lala
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The Apple-owned service is no longer accepting new users and, according to a message on its website, come May 31 it will cease operations for existing members as well.

TUAW writes that Lala users with outstanding credit balances will have those balances transferred over as iTunes store credit. Users will also "receive a credit in the amount of your Lala web song purchases for use on Apple's iTunes Store," the site says.

While Lala will soon no longer be in service -- and there's still no word from Apple on its plans for integration -- Apple could still very well have plans to use the technology to power an iTunes in the cloud.

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