AOL Unveils New Winamp Version with Enhanced Dashboard and Remote Features.

Personalization and Remote Access Enable Winamp's Global Community to Experience, Access and Manage their Music, Videos and Pictures Anytime, Anywhere for Free

DULLES, Va. -- Building on the global popularity of Winamp, AOL today announced a new version of Winamp featuring enhanced media player capabilities, and 2 new major features - Winamp Dashboard and Winamp Remote. Winamp, the free media player, continues to offer users a full-featured media library, music and video playback, skins and plug-ins, SHOUTcast radio and TV, and integrated online services. With over 57 million monthly unique users, Winamp has one of the largest and most active global communities on the web for users who love all forms of digital media, including music, videos and photos.

Winamp[R] Dashboard enables users a unique ability to customize their experience within the media player, permitting each user to design a dashboard that best meets their needs. Users can pick and choose from a wide variety of widgets that contain both personalized feeds of their own top tracks and albums as well content about artists news and events, top shared playlists, top new albums, top stations, viral videos, and more. Users are able to choose from 35 web feeds they can add to their Dashboard, including Netflix[R] Top 100, RollingStone.com[R], Digg[TM] Nation, Slashdot[R], AOL[R] Music Now, Game Daily[TM], SHOUTcast[R] and many more. Combined with Winamp's ever-increasing libraries of plug-ins and skins, Winamp Dashboard delivers the most personalized media experience on the web.

Winamp[R] Remote is a new feature enabling Winamp users to turn their broadband-connected PC into their own personal media server. Winamp Remote gives users the ability to access their personal collection of music from any internet-connected computer. Support for video and photo sharing and access from internet-capable mobile phones is expected soon. Winamp Remote also contains powerful but easy-to-use tools that let users share listening and viewing experiences with friends. In addition, as part of Winamp's continued push to be the best catalog of music and video on the web, AOL[R] Radio is expanding its Winamp offering by adding 25 original music programmed stations to the hundreds of channels currently available. Both Winamp[R] Dashboard and Winamp[R] Remote are initially being released as beta versions.

"Winamp has had explosive growth over the last 20 months, growing from 33 million to 57 million monthly users. We accomplished that by a renewed outreach to our incredible community and by focused enhancement of the core Winamp experience. With this new release, we wanted to show that Winamp and its development community can deliver truly innovative experiences to consumers. Winamp Remote and Winamp Dashboard are the first in a series of major functional enhancements users will see over the coming months as we work to continue to make Winamp the right choice for serious music and video lovers," says John McKinley, President of Digital Services and CTO for AOL.

Additionally, Winamp users will notice more portable media player support including iPods[R], direct-from-device playback for Plays-for-Sure[TM] devices, the ability to convert unsupported file types to a file type that the user's device can play, more auto-sync options, increased speeds for CD ripping and more superior sound from encoding in AAC and aacPlus.

About Winamp

Launched in January 1998, Winamp (http://www.winamp.com), distributed by Nullsoft, is a world leading advanced media player application with millions of worldwide users. Winamp supports high fidelity playback of CD, MP3, aacPlus, MPEG, WMA, WMV, NSV and other popular digital audio and video formats as well as skins and plug-ins. Winamp and SHOUTcast (http://www.shoutcast.com) were acquired by America Online, Inc. in May 1999 and are part of AOL Music's leading offerings (http://www.aolmusic.com).

About AOL

AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs the country's largest Internet access business, and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC is based in Dulles, Virginia. AOL and its subsidiaries also have operations in Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com.