free Web-based music browser

Lala.com is an Internet brand that has reinvented itself as the digital-music scene evolved, but has never enjoyed much traction in the Web marketplace. It hopes to change that.

On Tuesday, the CD-trading site turned free Web-based music browser relaunched as a mixed breed of sorts, trumpeting the digital download functionality of Apple's iTunes Store and the free music-streaming benefits of MySpace Music -- without ads.