Alliance Entertainment to Provide All Music Guide Information to pressplay's Online Subscription Service

Business Wire, Oct 16, 2001

Business Editors/Entertainment Writers

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2001

Alliance Entertainment, a leading provider of business-to-business infrastructure services to the home entertainment product marketplace, today announced that pressplay, the online music service company, has licensed Alliance's All Music Guide (AMG) database and will deliver extensive artist and album information as an integrated feature of their online music subscription service.

The comprehensive metadata and editorial content provided by AMG will enhance the functionality and navigation of the pressplay service. With complete discographies, artist biographies, album reviews, genres and styles, and similar artists and influences, AMG will contribute to creating an engaging experience for music fans.

"We are excited to be a part of this new and exciting online music service. The combination of the robust content of the All Music Guide with pressplay's innovative new subscription service will deliver compelling entertainment to music enthusiasts," said Alliance Entertainment President and CEO Eric Weisman.

"Our partnership with Alliance Entertainment enables pressplay to offer the full range of benefits of the All Music Guide to our members. With AMG's extensive artist and album information, the pressplay service will feature exhaustive content for fans of all genres," said pressplay President and CEO Andy Schuon.

About Alliance Entertainment Corp.

Alliance Entertainment Corp.(www.aent.com) is a leading total solution provider of business-to-business infrastructure services which are essential to transact commerce in the home entertainment product marketplace. Through its Distribution and Fulfillment Services Group, Alliance offers an extensive product inventory (including CDs, cassettes, DVDs, videos, video games and related merchandise), e-commerce fulfillment capabilities and innovative technology and support services for today's marketplace. Through its Media and Internet Services Group, Alliance is a leading distributor of digital entertainment through Digital On-Demand (www.reddotnet.com). In addition, Alliance is 2/2/2 a leading content provider through the All Media Guide (AMG) databases. AMG's customers license its e-commerce enabling entertainment databases to support their Internet retailing businesses. AMG is also a developer of proprietary Web Sites for music (www.allmusic.com), movies (www.allmovie.com), and games (www.allgame.com).

About All Media Guide (AMG)

All Media Guide has created the world's largest and most comprehensive information databases for music, video, DVDs, and video games. With coverage of both in-print and out-of-print titles, the massive AMG archive includes reviews, biographies, ratings, images, titles, credits, essays, plot synopses, and thousands of descriptive categories. All content is original, written expressly for AMG by a worldwide network of professional staff and freelance writers specializing in music, movies and games. The AMG databases--All Music Guide, All Movie Guide, and All Game Guide - are licensed by major retailers and Internet content sites and are available to the public through its websites (www.allmusic.com;; www.allgame.com) and through its series of books: All Music Guide, All Music Guide to Rock, All Music Guide to Country, All Music Guide to Jazz, All Music Guide to Blues and All Music Guide to Electronica.