EZCD.com Joins the Earjam.com Ranks to Offer Custom CD Compilations via the Earjam IMP — Internet Music Player

Business Wire, April 10, 2000

Business Editors, High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000

Earjam.com(tm), a leading developer of software and services for the Internet music market, today announced a comprehensive partnership with EZCD.com, a leader in the custom compilation CD market.

Through Earjam.com's IMP (Internet Music Player) software, music fans worldwide will be able to find, preview and purchase nearly 250,000 songs from over 20,000 artists and more than 500 record labels from EZCD.com's extensive music catalog.

"By teaming up with Earjam.com, we can specifically target promotions and music to match our customers' distinct musical tastes," said Jeremy Kagan, CEO and President of EZCD.com. "We're thrilled that this innovative software will be a forum for offering tracks from our broad catalog of emerging bands, as well as chart-climbers like Fat Boy Slim, The Chemical Brothers and The Get Up Kids."

"EZCD.com has been on the forefront in offering custom CD compilations," said Dave Ulmer, president and CEO of Earjam.com. "With our unique Audiobot technology in the Earjam IMP, this alliance gives artists a wider outlet for selling their music by linking music lovers directly to the content they crave."

About Earjam IMP

Earjam.com's new IMP software provides music fans with a direct connection to the music and artists they like, while making it easy to find, download, play and burn music off the Net. The Earjam IMP(tm) is the world's first free universal Player/Burner that solves the problem of conflicting music file formats, security measures and hardware standards, by supporting all popular formats and hardware devices. Users can play MP3s, Windows Media files, audio CDs, plus over a dozen additional formats, and transfer their music to popular devices such as the Diamond RIO and Creative Nomad, as well as burn CDs they can play in any standard CD player. The Earjam IMP automatically handles all downloading, ripping, unlocking and transcoding, without requiring any user interaction or technical knowledge. The consumer simply selects the music they want and sends it to the desired device.

About the Earjam Audiobot Technology

The Earjam IMP also makes it simple for music fans to find the music they like, using Earjam's patent-pending Audiobot(tm) technology that spiders across the web using user-defined preference filters. Music links, including graphics, video and descriptive text, are then delivered directly to the user's desktop, to preview, buy, download and burn. The Earjam(tm) Audiobot secure communication layer acts as a conduit between consumer's preferences and Internet content, enabling artists to reach out to their existing and new fans, while completely protecting the consumer's anonymity.

About EZCD.com

Volatile Media Inc, which operates EZCD.com, EZMP3.com and EZGamer.com, is the leader in the custom distribution of music, games and entertainment content. Consumers can buy custom compilation CDs at EZCD.com, download songs from EZMP3.com, buy custom videogame demo CDs on EZGamer.com, or learn more about the artists from the site's extensive library of information, sound clips and videos. With approximately 100 different genres to choose from and a collection of nearly 250,000 songs, over 20,000 artists and more than 500 labels, EZCD.com allows consumers to purchase any combination of songs and customize the track order and title -- it really is Music Your Way(tm).

EZCD.com has established relationships with labels and distributors such as Beggars Banquet Group, 32 Jazz, Deep South, Bluejay Records, Crank!, Saul Goodman, Knitting Factory Records, J-Bird, Vagrant Records, Irma Records, Century Media and The Orchard. Corporate partners include American Express, BMG Special Products, Liberty Travel and Clairol. EZCD.com also operates dozens of stores for leading music, games, lifestyle and entertainment sites and partners including SOHH.com, Fastmusic.com, Clubplanet.com, JamBands.com and more for cutting edge reviews and news.

About Earjam.com

Founded in October 1999, by executives from the CD-Recording and Internet software application markets, Earjam.com, Inc. (www.earjam.com) is a privately held corporation and a leading supplier of Internet music software and services to the online music market. Earjam.com is an active member of SDMI, the Secure Digital Music Initiative, and DiMA, the Digital Media Association, and is dedicated to making it easy for mainstream music consumers to find, download, play and burn music off the Net. Earjam.com has distribution or technology agreements with EMusic.com, INTERVU, Oak Technology, Inc., Mitsumi, Thomson/Fraunhofer IIS, QSound, CDDB, Microsoft Corporation, Diamond Multimedia, Epitonic, The Orchard, Muze, myplay.com, and Creative Technologies, and is a member of MP3.com's and CDNow's affiliate networks.

Note to Editors: Earjam, Audiobot, Earjam IMP and Earjam.com are registered trademarks of Earjam.com, Inc. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners.