MUSICMATCH Debuts the Music Fan's Media Player; New XP-Ready MUSICMATCH Jukebox Offers Most Advanced MP3 Management

Business Wire, Oct 23, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2001

MUSICMATCH Inc., a recognized leader in developing personalized music software and services, today announced the latest version of its award-winning MUSICMATCH(R) Jukebox(TM).

MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus 7.0 offers the best in MP3 management, focusing on the needs of the avid music lover. A preview is available now at www.musicmatch.com/beta.

MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus is Windows XP compatible and offers the most comprehensive CD burning solution available for quickly and easily burning customized, high-quality CDs and printing personalized covers and labels. The new MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus also includes Super Tagging(TM), the only automated search and entry resource for tagging huge collections of downloaded tracks, as well as other unparalleled management features for controlling the sound and quality of MP3s on the desktop and on the road.

"Because we focus on what music fans really want, music lovers worldwide continue to choose MUSICMATCH Jukebox as their core MP3 player, burner, encoder and manager," said Dennis Mudd, CEO of MUSICMATCH Inc. "MUSICMATCH invented the digital music jukebox more than four years ago, and with this latest release we've again redefined the digital music landscape."

Best Burner for All Music Files -- Not Just Audio

The improved, most comprehensive MUSICMATCH burning system can now be used through MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus or as a standalone application, allowing listeners to drag and drop all their music files -- MP3s, videos, cover art, sheet music and more -- to burn at lightening speed (up to 24X). And users can now personalize their CDs with custom titles, graphic frames and the ability to list up to 150 MP3 track titles. The program's new SmartSplit(TM) system determines optimal song grouping when burning multiple CDs, freeing listeners from determining how many CDs they need or how to organize tracks when burning entire music collections. Archiving music has never been easier.

Unparalleled MP3 Manager

MUSICMATCH Jukebox takes music management to the next level with Super Tagging, the industry's first automated tagging feature. Super Tagging includes "Tag from filename," where listeners can quickly tag all their untagged files with the same file name scheme. And the "Lookup tags" tool in Super Tagging provides comprehensive, accurate tag info for all those downloaded tracks with incomplete file data. Tagging used to require hours of typing detailed track information, like artist, album title, genre and track number, but now music fans can identify all their MP3s in seconds.

In addition, only MUSICMATCH Jukebox users can maximize and balance the volume of their entire music library and transfer any sound effects to burned CDs and portable MP3 players. Volume Leveling raises and levels all tracks to be played, eliminating volume spikes and dips from track to track. And the Portable Sound Enhancements feature captures any volume enhancement made to a song file, including Volume Leveling and other effects, and sends it along when the track is transferred or burned.

Most Complete Personal Music Management System

MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus is the most complete personal music system available, with new features that music fans want in one MP3 program. Whether the music enthusiast wants to burn, rip (record) and manage their entire music collection or just play their favorite music, MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus is the one place to experience and fully enjoy music at the highest quality. Additional new features include:

-- Create Personalized Radio Station from Playlist -- By simply right-clicking
on a playlist, users can easily create and launch personalized radio stations
that include music from artists in the playlist, as well as from similar
artists

-- Play My Library -- Consumers can randomly play (shuffle) all tracks in their
Music Library in one click

-- Deferred CDDB(R) Lookup -- Music fans can rip one or more CDs offline and
add track info from the online database the next time they're connected

-- Save Streams in Library -- Listeners can now save Internet stream URLs in
their music library, giving them the convenience of organizing all their
downloads and most-listened-to streams in one place

-- Mini-Wand Mode -- Fans can keep the sound in the foreground, but the program
in the background, maximizing desktop space

The 1st Successful Personalized Music Service

MUSICMATCH also offers the perfect service for people who want to enjoy music effortlessly and in entirely new ways. MUSICMATCH Radio MX(TM) is the industry's first near music-on-demand, CD-quality streaming service. Since its inception in May, Radio MX has been a smashing success with more than 48,000 subscribers to date. Radio MX delivers a variety of ways to enjoy favorite music, including creating radio stations based on one or more artist, a year, decade or other timeframe, or a mix of various music formats.

Matching Listeners to Their Favorite Music

MUSICMATCH Jukebox and Radio MX leverage the company's patent-pending personalization technology, which measures the correlations between the listening preferences of its millions of users to deliver relevant music recommendations and personalized streams not available in competing services. MUSICMATCH is the only digital music provider to leverage the listening preferences of millions of music lovers and return this information to consumers through a personalized streaming experience. With more than two billion play events uploaded by its user community to date, MUSICMATCH has the largest database of listening behavior in the world.