Adaptec's Toast 4 Deluxe for All Your Burning Desires.

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 1999--

Adaptec's Toast 4 Deluxe, now includes seamless burning of authorized MP3 files to audio CD, CD Spin Doctor (turn LPs into CDs), access to the CDDB online Disc Recognition Service, and the ability to download and burn encrypted Liquid Audio music files.

Other new features in Toast 4 are PhotoRelay, a robust media cataloging application, and support of USB and ATAPI (IDE) CD-R/RW drives.

"Our customers have made Toast the number one CD recording software product for Macintosh," said Tom Seaman, group marketing manager for Adaptec's software products group. "For the past year, Adaptec has been very focused on building the first Deluxe Edition of Toast, packed with powerful new features for burning audio, image, and data CDs."

What's New About Toast 4 Deluxe

For the music enthusiast, Toast 4 Deluxe now offers Disc-at-Once recording, and MP3-to-CD audio burning capabilities. With the new Liquid Audio Music Player, users can download encrypted music files from Liquid Audio's Web site, and burn music CDs to be played on their stereo CD player. Users will also have access to CDDB's unique Disc Recognition Service, where artist, album and song title information are automatically available for use, eliminating the need for users to manually type in titles. Another new audio feature is the CD Spin Doctor application, which allows users to take old LPs, clean up hisses and pops, add hi-fidelity back, then burn to CD.

For the creative professional, Toast 4 Deluxe includes PhotoRelay, a robust media cataloging application that is ideal for organizing and storing digital images to CD. PhotoRelay is the easiest and fastest way to view, organize and present the typical user's growing number of photos, images, movies, sounds, fonts and other media files on CD. PhotoRelay provides fast access to media files archived on disk, CD-ROM, or any other storage device, and can be used to create CD digital photo or Web Albums (HTML).

Toast 4 Deluxe also offers expanded drive support for USB and ATAPI CD-R/RW recorders from manufacturers such as LaCie, QPS, Freecom and many others.

Pricing and Availability

Adaptec's Toast 4 Deluxe will be available in Fall 1999, and carries a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $99 with a $20 mail-in-rebate for U.S. and Canadian owners of eligible CD Recording software. Customers can sign up at http://cdr.adaptec.com/signup to be notified via email when Toast 4 Deluxe becomes available. Email inquiries can be sent to [e-mail]. Customers who purchase Toast 3.5 after July 12, 1999 can visit the Adaptec web site http://cdr.adaptec.com for information about special upgrade pricing.

About Adaptec

Adaptec (Nasdaq:ADPT) moves the world's information with host bus adapters, RAID and software products that speed data to and from computers, peripherals and networks. Founded in 1981 and with headquarters in Milpitas, Adaptec is a global design, manufacturing, sales, service and distribution company. More information on Adaptec's CD Recordable software is available at http://cdr.adaptec.com or http://cdr.adaptec.com/signup, for other Adaptec products visit our web site at http://www.adaptec.com.

About CDDB

CDDB, Inc. operates the largest online database of audio CD information in the world found at www.CDDB.com. CDDB, Inc. is an Internet enterprise of Escient, Inc. on the Web at www.escient.com, a recognized pioneer and leader in developing convergence technologies that combine consumer electronics, computing power, and the Internet in powerful, yet simple ways.