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New Program From MP3.com Puts Massive Music Collection and First-Time Functions a Mere Click Away

Premium Listener Subscription Service Lets Customers Enjoy The Music They Want - The Way They Want It - From One Location
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SAN DIEGO, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Online music fans have been waiting for the day when their entire music collection could exist in one place -- just clicks away from their ears and with the functions they want most. Owners of computers, portable MP3 players, CD players, and music lovers everywhere, have good reason to be excited, because that day has arrived.

MP3.com (Nasdaq: MPPP - news) today announced the release of Premium Listener Service (TM) (PLuS(TM)) (www.mp3.com/premiumlistener), an intuitive suite of tools that for the first time gives consumers worldwide access to their digital music collection and puts them clicks away from burning CDs or hearing the latest tracks ... all from one location.

The PLuS Express package from MP3.com (www.mp3.com) offers, for the first time, hundreds of thousands of songs from digital artists plus subscription channels and commercial CDs in a single easy-to-use program. Users can browse the massive near million-song music collection on MP3.com, listen to songs, create playlists, and more.

Audio CDs, and the growing popularity of MP3 CDs, can be created from users' favorite songs directly from their online music collections. Many portable MP3 players now have the ability to be loaded directly from PLuS Express, allowing an online experience that combines the best of online music with a consumer's personal offline audio devices.

Using PLuS Express, music fans can access and manage their online personal music library like never before. CDs from their own collection can be loaded in just seconds through the Beam-It(TM) technology. High-quality song previews from commercially available CDs, can be played and newly purchased CDs can become immediately available in a user's account through Instant Listening(TM) relationships with retail partnerships.

Through PLuS Express, charts and featured songs from MP3.com's massive digital music library can become part of every user's music collection. Additionally, music channels a user subscribes to, such as MP3.com's Classical Music Channel, become part of their music library. Together, these private and public music resources are efficiently combined and presented, allowing the user to organize tracks through playlists and stream the music in lo-fi or hi-fi quality. An integrated search facility spans not only the music in an individual's music collection, but the MP3.com song library and commercially available artists as well.

``Nobody wants to scrap their entire music collection when they sign up for an online music subscription service, which will likely only have a tiny fraction of the music they want to listen to,'' said Michael Robertson, chairman and chief executive officer of MP3.com. ``Consumers want a platform where digital music expands their music collection, by allowing them to combine digital music with the CDs they own and devices like CD-Rs and portable MP3 players, which they use to get the most value from their music.''

CD-burning capability and portable MP3 support are built directly into the PLuS program to facilitate new ways music fans are listening to their music. By clicking on a CD burning icon, PLuS Express users can create custom CD compilations from the music in their free My.MP3 account, which is immediately burned onto their home CD-R unit.

PLuS Express users also can create traditional audio CDs playable in standard CD players. With just a few mouse clicks, a CD of favorite songs can be created that will play in a car or home CD player. Another CD-burning feature is the ability to create an MP3 format CD, allows more than 100 songs to be burned onto each CD. Owners of popular portable memory-based MP3 players will find an icon to load songs from their online account directly to their portable player in a one-click fashion.

``Digital music isn't just about online music, but also about a wealth of new devices that give consumers new ways to listen to their music when they're not connected to the net,'' said Stacy Clark, senior director of marketing at MP3.com. ``PLuS Express integrates support for both portable MP3 players and CD burning. It's designed to give consumers the best possible music experience online and offline.''

PLuS allows immediate access to all MP3.com content. Consumers can access PLuS for $2.99 a month or $29.99 annually. A 14-day, fully functional free trial is offered to interested individuals who want to experience the future of digital music for themselves. To sign up for PLuS, visit www.mp3.com/premiumlistener.

In other news:

On June 13, MP3.com will issue a press release announcing that it has reached a major milestone in digital music. The announcement, issued in audio and video formats, will be hosted by MP3.com's chairman and chief executive officer, Michael Robertson. The announcement will be fun and informative, so log on to www.mp3.com/summit on June 13 to witness history being made.

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For further information please contact Greg Wilfahrt, Director of Public Relations, of MP3.com, 858-623-7280, [e-mail].

About MP3.com

MP3.com, Inc. has created a unique and robust technology infrastructure designed to facilitate the storage, management, promotion and delivery of digital music. As the Internet's premier Music Service Provider (MSP), the company is dedicated to providing consumers with access to music when they want it, where they want it, using any web-enabled device. The company's web site hosts what MP3.com believes is the largest collection of digital music available on the Internet, with more than 967,000 songs and audio files posted from over 150,000 digital artists and record labels. Dedicated to growing the digital music space, the company's products and services include on-demand Subscription Music Channels, an innovative Business Music Services program, a Syndicated Radio program and others. Additionally, through the company's MSP technology initiative and its music InterOperating System, MP3.com is partnering with a variety of forward-looking businesses to expand its digital music strategy. MP3.com's common stock is listed for trading on the Nasdaq National Market under the ticker symbol MPPP. MP3.com, My.MP3, Beam-It, Instant Listening and PLuS are trademarks of MP3.com, Inc. The company is based in San Diego, California. For more information on MP3.com, visit www.mp3.com.