[2] Earjam.com and myplay.com To Connect Desktop Music Lovers With New Online Digital Music Services.Entertainment Editors CANNES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000 Earjam IMP (Internet Music Player) To Give Users Free Access to myplay Service, Including 250Mb of Online MP3 Storage Earjam.com, a leading developer of software and services for the Internet music market, today announced a co-marketing and co-development relationship with myplay.com. Myplay.com is a new Web-based service that gives Internet users an easier way to acquire, store, organize, and share their MP3 and other digital music files. Earjam.com and myplay.com will work together to integrate myplay.com's online services with Earjam's client software solutions, enabling consumers to easily, and legally, upload CD content to their personal myplay storage locker, and to download their MP3 collection to their desktop, where their Earjam IMP will burn their tunes to a standard CD that can play in any CD player. All Earjam IMP users will receive a free myplay locker, which includes 250Mb of online storage for their burgeoning music collection. Earjam is exhibiting its products and services at MIDEM (www.midem.com) the premier music industry festival in Cannes, January 22 through 27. A special preview version of the Earjam IMP will be available for free download from www.earjam.com on February 15, 2000. Interested beta testers may sign up on www.earjam.com in the &uot;betazone&uot;. &uot;Our relationship with Earjam.com will significantly ease the world's transition from physical CDs to digital music,&uot; said David Pakman David Pakman (born February 2, 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Internet and Radio news and politics personality best known for politics website Hear the Issues. He also hosts "Midweek Politics with David Pakman" locally on Valley Free Radio in Northampton, Massachusetts, and , Co-Founder and SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul of Business Development of myplay.com. &uot;By integrating our services with Earjam.com's IMP software, we can now offer millions of new consumers the ability to easily store and manage their CD collections online and burn their online collections to standard CDs.&uot; &uot;The online music revolution has profoundly changed how consumers interact with their music collection,&uot; said Dave Ulmer Dave Ulmer came up with the concept of the GPS Stash Hunt (now called geocaching) and introduced it to the world on May 2, 2000, the day after President Clinton turned off Selective Availability (SA), the intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signals , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Earjam.com. &uot;Unfortunately, the speed of this technology shift has been challenging for consumers faced with multiple file formats and conflicting hardware standards. Our relationship with myplay.com is a big step forward towards enabling consumers to listen to their favorite music wherever, whenever they desire.&uot; About the 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 is the world's first free universal Player/Burner that solves the problem of conflicting music file formats, security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security and hardware standards, by supporting all popular formats and hardware devices. Users can play MP3s, Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. files, audio CDs, plus over a dozen additional formats, and transfer their music to popular devices such as the Diamond RIO This article is about the american country band. For the MP3 player brand, see Rio (digital audio players). Diamond Rio is an American country music band formed in 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. 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(TM) 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 Audiobot(TM) 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 myplay, inc. Launched in the fall of 1999, myplay (www.myplay.com) is the legal and industry-supported Web-based service that simplifies the digital music experience for the consumer. Myplay provides customers with a 'virtual locker' where they can store, share, organize and download their MP3 and other digital music files from anywhere in the world. The company has strategic partnerships with EMusic.com, Tunes.com, Dreamworks Records and Artemis Records. It has received funding from respected venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] IVP IVP abbr. intravenous pyelogram IVP (Intravenous pyelogram) The use of a dye, injected into the veins, used to locate kidney stones. Also used to determine the anatomy of the urinary system. and Integral Capital Partners, and investment bank Allen &Company. Based in Redwood City, CA, with an office in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , myplay can be contacted by phone at 650/620-6900 or by e-mail at info@myplay.com . 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 (Secure Digital Music Initiative) A set of rules for securely distributing digital music over the Internet. Announced in February 1999, it is backed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal, the top five , the Secure Digital Music Initiative Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) was a forum formed in late 1998, comprised of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, ostensibly with the purpose of developing technology specifications that protected the , and DiMA, the Digital Media Association, and is dedicated to making it easy for mainstream music consumers to find, download and record music off the Net. Earjam.com's partners and licensors include EMusic.com, CDNow, Hollywood Stock Exchange, INTERVU, Oak Technology, Inc., Thomson/Fraunhofer IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. , QSound, CDDB (CD DataBase) An online music database service from Gracenote, Emeryville, CA (www.gracenote.com). Developed in the mid-1990s by Ti Kan and Steve Sherf and officially known as MusicID, the CDDB is widely used to find album and song titles for the tracks on a CD. , MP3.com, Microsoft Corporation, Diamond Multimedia, Muze, myplay.com, and Creative Technologies. Note to Editors: Earjam, Audiobot, Earjam IMP and Earjam.com are registered trademarks of Earjam.com, Inc. |
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