Music Industry Veterans Join Earjam.com Management Team; Scott Hunter and Todd Souvignier Round Out Internet Music Software Company.Business Editors/Internet & Entertainment 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)--March 21, 2000 Earjam.com, a leading developer of software and services for the Internet music market, today announced that Scott A. Hunter and Todd Souvignier joined the management team. "With Scott and Todd's experience and relationships in the music arena, Earjam is well positioned to bring all the pieces together to fuel the commercial expansion of the online music revolution," 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. Scott A. Hunter As Vice President of Business Development, Hunter will rely on his unique experience in music journalism, online commerce and strategic management to forge partnerships with online music resellers, record labels and music portals. "I'm excited to be a part of Earjam's efforts to bring a wide selection of music to online consumers," said Hunter. "By making it easy for people to find, purchase and enjoy popular music, it's a win-win situation for both the music industry and Earjam's customers." In 1995, Hunter founded RockLove and RockLove.com, a publication and online music destination that has featured interviews with members of the Rolling Stones Rolling Stones, English rock music group that rose to prominence in the mid-1960s and continues to exert great influence. Members have included singer Mick Jagger (Michael Phillip Jagger), 1943–; guitarists Brian Jones , Jefferson Starship Jefferson Starship was an American rock band popular in the 1970s and 1980s. It developed from San Francisco-based psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane. History Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship , Guns & Roses and the Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American rock band that formed in the early 1970s and was based out of New York City. The group consisted of David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. among hundreds of other music superstars. As president, Hunter will lead all business, editorial and operational efforts of the company to generate an audience of hundreds of thousands of loyal followers. Prior to RockLove.com, Hunter was the Regional Vice-President of Evans, Inc., a Chicago-based apparel and outerware retailer. Todd Souvignier Todd joins Earjam.com as Director of Programming, where he will manage the process of delivering customized music selections to Earjam IMP(tm) (Internet Music Player) users via a combination of patent-pending Audiobot(tm) technology and his cadre of EJs. Consumers can then download, play and burn the music they like without the hassle of searching multiple online locations. "With Earjam, I have the rare opportunity to foster a connection with music lovers using powerful technology and good old fashioned human beings," said Souvignier. Prior to Earjam, Souvignier pursued his passion for music and technology as Vice-President of Marketing first at OSC O.S.C. n. short for Order to Show Cause. (See: Order to Show Cause) and then at Arboretum arboretum: see botanical garden. arboretum Place where trees, shrubs, and sometimes herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. An arboretum may be a collection in its own right or a part of a botanical garden. Systems. Souvignier authored several cover stories and byline articles for Electronic Musician, Guitar for the Practicing Musician, MacAddict and other magazines. He is also the songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist for the industrial band War in America and his music has appeared on the 1995 Full Throttle (LucasArts) computer game soundtrack. 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 is the world's first free universal Player/Burner that solves the problem of conflicting music file formats, security measures and hardware standards, by supporting all popular formats and hardware devices. Users can play MP3s, Windows Media 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 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 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 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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