Sonic Foundry Releases SIREN Jukebox 2.0; New Key Features Include Video Support, a Powerful Media Manager, Internet Radio, and CD Labeling Capabilities

Business Wire, Oct 4, 2000

Business and Technology Editors

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2000

Sonic Foundry(R) Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems, today released version 2.0 of its SIREN(TM) Jukebox software, a full-scale digital media jukebox for the windows-based PC, capable of organizing and playing back an extensive list of file formats including MP3, WMA, WAV, QuickTime(TM), MPEG, AVI, AIFF, and Ogg Vorbis. Streaming video and audio is supported in both RealMedia and Windows Media(TM) formats.

SIREN Jukebox 2.0 was developed with a built-in web browser, permitting users to enter their favorite URLs, search the Internet for additional content, and download media while never leaving the SIREN Jukebox 2.0 application. As a powerful media library manager, SIREN Jukebox 2.0 allows the user to evaluate and assign ratings to their material and sort, group, or filter a large audio and video collection by title, artist, genre, or any other user-specified field.

Additional features include audio and data CD burning, capabilities to design and print CD labels and jewel case covers, and the ability to tune into Internet radio stations from around the world--including over 240 preset channels. Advanced audio features such as 16-band EQ, reverb, and time compress/expand provide a high degree of audio control upon playback.

"This flexible and powerful software jukebox offers the most robust music and video library management functionality on the market today," said Jeff Conover, vice president of marketing for Sonic Foundry. "The user-friendly interface is incredibly easy to navigate and allows users full control of their digital media experience."

About Sonic Foundry

Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry is a leading developer and marketer of digital media and Internet software tools, services, and systems. Its award-winning products and services are used worldwide for multimedia and Internet applications including audio, video and film post-production, broadcast production, and digital content creation. The Company's products and services offer media consumers everywhere the ability to create and capture media, edit the content, and deliver the information via fixed media channels or electronic distribution.

Sonic Foundry's Media Services Division offers premium solutions for delivering audio and video content online. The division provides the industry's most powerful combination of proprietary technologies incorporating high-end encoding, webcasting, syndication systems, content and digital rights management, and consulting services.

Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for the Company's products, the Company's ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services, the effect of new competitors in the Company's market, integration of acquired businesses and other risk factors identified from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.