EZCD.com Joins the Earjam.com Ranks to Offer Custom CD Compilations via the Earjam IMP -- Internet Music Player.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 Earjam.com(tm), a leading developer of software and services for the Internet music market, today announced a comprehensive partnership with EZCD.com, a leader in the custom compilation CD market. Through Earjam.com's IMP (Internet Music Player) software, music fans worldwide will be able to find, preview and purchase nearly 250,000 songs from over 20,000 artists and more than 500 record labels from EZCD.com's extensive music catalog. "By teaming up with Earjam.com, we can specifically target promotions and music to match our customers' distinct musical tastes," said Jeremy Kagan, 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. and President of EZCD.com. "We're thrilled that this innovative software will be a forum for offering tracks from our broad catalog of emerging bands, as well as chart-climbers like Fat Boy Slim, The Chemical Brothers and The Get Up Kids." "EZCD.com has been on the forefront in offering custom CD compilations," 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 of Earjam.com. "With our unique Audiobot technology in the Earjam IMP, this alliance gives artists a wider outlet for selling their music by linking music lovers directly to the content they crave." About 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(tm) 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 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 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(tm) Audiobot 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 EZCD.com Volatile Media Inc, which operates EZCD.com, EZMP3.com and EZGamer.com, is the leader in the custom distribution of music, games and entertainment content. Consumers can buy custom compilation CDs at EZCD.com, download songs from EZMP3.com, buy custom videogame demo CDs on EZGamer.com, or learn more about the artists from the site's extensive library of information, sound clips and videos. With approximately 100 different genres to choose from and a collection of nearly 250,000 songs, over 20,000 artists and more than 500 labels, EZCD.com allows consumers to purchase any combination of songs and customize the track order and title -- it really is Music Your Way(tm). EZCD.com has established relationships with labels and distributors such as Beggars Banquet Group, 32 Jazz, Deep South, Bluejay Records, Crank!, Saul Goodman, Knitting Factory Records, J-Bird, Vagrant VAGRANT. Generally by the word vagrant is understood a person who lives idly without any settled home; but this definition is much enlarged by some statutes, and it includes those who refuse to work, or go about begging. See 1 Wils. R. 331; 5 East, R. 339: 8 T. R. 26. Records, Irma Records, Century Media and The Orchard. Corporate partners include American Express, BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass Special Products, Liberty Travel and Clairol. EZCD.com also operates dozens of stores for leading music, games, lifestyle and entertainment sites and partners including SOHH SOHH Support Online Hip Hop (rap music website) .com, Fastmusic.com, Clubplanet.com, JamBands.com and more for cutting edge reviews and news. 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 Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private 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, play and burn music off the Net. Earjam.com has distribution or technology agreements with EMusic.com, INTERVU, Oak Technology, Inc., Mitsumi, 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. , Microsoft Corporation, Diamond Multimedia, Epitonic, The Orchard, Muze, myplay.com, and Creative Technologies, and is a member of MP3.com's and CDNow's affiliate networks. Note to Editors: Earjam, Audiobot, Earjam IMP and Earjam.com are registered trademarks of Earjam.com, Inc. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners. |
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