Casady & Greene has designated MP3.com, Inc. as its exclusive Music Service Provider (MSP). This strategic partnership, which involves Casady & Greene's MP3 player and encoder, SoundJam MP, enables Macintosh users to store and manage their music online. SoundJam MP will be MSP-enabled to give nearly 50,000 users on-demand access to more than 67,000 artists and over 424,000 songs and audio files posted on the MP3.com web site (http://www.mp3.com).

"This agreement will afford SoundJam MP users the ability to play and manage their music in a single application," said Michael Robertson, chairman and chief executive officer of MP3.com. "We've always been firmly committed to Music Services accessible on the Macintosh platform and I believe SoundJam MP to be an ideal solution for Macintosh users. MP3.com's MSP partnership with Casady & Greene extends the online digital music space on the Macintosh platform and offers Mac users an incredible listening experience."

The MSP partnership with MP3.com will also allow Casady & Greene to deliver personalized services to its SoundJam MP users, such as automatic updates on new releases from their favorite MP3.com artists and information on upcoming concerts.

"Every SoundJam MP customer will have access to MP3.com's breadth of music services," said Luisa Bowling, Director of Internet Sales and Marketing for Casady & Greene (http://www.casadyg.com). "This agreement puts a personal library of artists, songs and music genres at our users' fingertips."

"Casady & Greene and other MP3.com partners will display their MSP-enabled products at the MP3 Summit 2000. The online digital music technologies of tomorrow are being developed today and implemented by industry leaders attending this conference," added Robertson.

For information on the MP3 Summit 2000 in San Diego June 20-21, visit
http://www.mp3.com/summit

MP3.com is pioneering a revolutionary approach to the promotion and distribution of music. MP3.com uses the Internet and file formats that make music files smaller, which enables a growing number of artists to distribute and promote their music worldwide while enabling consumers to conveniently access this expanding music catalog. MP3.com's site contains over 424,000 songs and audio files from more than 67,000 artists. MP3.com believes this represents one of the largest collections of digital music to be found on the Internet. Consumers can search for, listen to and download music free of charge. In addition, MP3.com is recognized as the premier online Music Service Provider (MSP) which allows users to access, manage, and listen to their personal music collection anytime and anywhere in the world, using any web-enabled device or application. For more information on MP3.com, visit:
http://www.mp3.com

SoundJam MP is a full featured MP3 player and encoder for Macintosh, allowing users to easily build custom music playlists that can track music by artist, track, song, music style, track length, date recorded, and other variables. SoundJam MP also includes a 10 band graphic equalizer that allows users to control the quality and tone of music manually or by using preset music styles: Jazz, Rock, Classical and more.

Charles W. Moore

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July 05, 2009