Lala—the music streaming business Apple purchased in late 2009 over Google—will officially be shut down at the end of this month. Lala was an interesting company in that it allowed users to purchase one of over 7 million songs for $.10. Buyers had unlimited access to purchased songs on the web while an official download to your hard drive would cost the usual $.79 to $.89.

Apple is trying to make it even easier for people to get involved in the iTunes ecosystem and enjoy the content available on the service. They have now launched a web based sort of iTunes Store that they are calling iTunes Preview. This system allows users who don’t have iTunes installed on their computer to still discover content shared through iTunes links.