From:	 Rhett Glauser <rhett@lineo.com>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: MP3.com selects Lineo to manufacture business media server
Date:	 Tue, 7 Aug 2001 8:21:00

MP3.com selects Lineo® to manufacture the next-generation Business Music
Media Server (BMMS) after evaluating the solutions of 12 different supplier
candidates. The BMMS has been used by companies such as Petco and Rubio's
to play in-store music and advertising MP3 files for visiting customers.

The BMMS is based on the Lineo SecureEdge™ internet appliance platform
which runs Lineo uClinux™ microcontroller software. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MP3.COM SELECTS LINEO TO MANUFACTURE 
MEDIA SERVER FOR ITS BUSINESS MUSIC SERVICES

Lineo Will Also Provide Added Support for BMS Partners

SAN DIEGO --August 7, 2001-- Beginning this fall, subscribers to MP3.com's,
Inc. (Nasdaq: MPPP) Business Music Services will begin receiving a new
media server designed by MP3.com™ (www.mp3.com) and Lineo®, Inc. The
next-generation player at less than half the size of the existing media
player retains all of the current features plus added enhancements such as
keyboard access and troubleshooting capabilities. To view the Business
Music Media Server (BMMS) product, visit www.mp3.com/product_hardware. To
learn more about the BMMS, visit www.mp3.com/bms_products. 

"The product is extremely reliable and designed for easy installation
at the store level," said Steven Scott, director of Business Music Services
at MP3.com. "We met our core engineering and performance objectives with
this product - providing a media server that will cost less than a commercial
tape or CD player and provides low-cost installation, continual play,
low-touch operation and performance reliability in a retail operation
environment."

The new player is based on the Lineo SecureEdge™ internet appliance platform
and uses a Lineo uClinux™ embedded operating system that's more advanced
than its predecessor, with new features and a quicker startup. The Business
Music Media Server (BMMS) is designed to deliver two independent music
or advertising programs simultaneously, while downloading content from
MP3.com's Business Music Services site (www.mp3.com/bmscentral). As MP3.com's
Business Music Services expands into the global marketplace, the player's
applications were created to accommodate international applications.

"Input from our early partners Petco and Rubio's contributed to refinement
of this truly powerful, scalable, low-cost solution," said Bob Simril,
vice president of Business Music Services at MP3.com. "By leveraging the
many years of combined business music expertise with talented and committed
engineering resources, we have created what we believe is the new standard
for global, web-based business music and audio ad distribution."


"The Lineo SecureEdge internet appliance platform, running uClinux, will
be provided for MP3.com through Lineo's ISO9000 contract manufacturing
capabilities to create the most reliable yet inexpensive device in the
shortest time possible," said Bryan Sparks, chief executive officer of
Lineo. "The media server design went from concept to prototype in only
nine weeks." 

Lineo is scheduled to operate a fulfillment center in Salt Lake City to
support MP3.com's Business Music Services. The Lineo Fulfillment Center
is slated to be the distribution, shipping and receiving hub for new BMMS
players. The center will receive orders for new installations, configure
BMMS players and ship them to installation destinations. Through fulfillment
center operation, Lineo becomes a vertically integrated supplier to MP3.com,
providing the hardware, system software and other value-added services
to the MP3.com Value Added Reseller (VAR) network. Lineo is scheduled
to develop follow-up designs for MP3.com while providing ongoing product
design, manufacturing, fulfillment and post-sale service for the MP3.com
global VAR network. MP3.com will drive the BMMS while delivering audio
programming to subscriber business establishments. 

MP3.com's Business Music Services (www.mp3.com/bmscentral) is a subscription
program that makes highly customizable music and audio messaging available
to a variety of businesses, including restaurants, fashion retailers,
supermarkets, convenience stores, salons, offices, big-box retailers and
a variety of other business establishments. The services provide subscribers
with the ability to control the music as well as audio advertisements
throughout multiple locations. 

This flexibility affords businesses the ability to select music and messaging
for specific demographics within an individual location or an entire chain
of stores by simply accessing a web-enabled, password-protected MP3.com
Internet account.

In addition to Business Music Services (www.mp3.com/bmscentral), MP3.com
provides a variety of innovative, business-related offerings explained
in greater detail at www.mp3.com/b2b. Among these offerings is Radio Services
(www.mp3.com/mp3radio), a multitiered program designed to bring the power
of digital music to traditional radio outlets. The company's Music Licensing
Program (www.mp3.com/musicsupervisor) is comprised of various services
intended
to allow music supervisors to shop for talent from the vast pool of MP3.com's
artist community.

MP3.com's Mobile initiative (www.mp3.com/mp3mobile) continues to help
shape the future of music distribution via wireless devices. And Audio
Hosting (www.mp3.com/audiohosting) is designed to empower companies that
want to add music to their offerings with access to the same high-quality
technology that MP3.com relies on to deliver more than 1 million songs
a day to music fans.

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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 1 million songs and audio files posted from over 165,000
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 is a trademark or service
mark of MP3.com, Inc. Other trademarks or service marks referenced herein
are the property of their respective owners. The company is based in San
Diego, California. For more information on MP3.com, visit www.mp3.com.

About Lineo
Lineo®, Inc. provides embedded systems, real-time and high availability
solutions that include software, hardware reference designs and professional
services. Lineo's solutions allow OEMs to create devices and systems that
interact with the Internet while helping OEMs to reduce system requirements,
per-unit costs and time-to-market. The company's key product lines include:
Embedix™ (embedded Linux system software), uClinux™ (embedded Linux for
MMU-less processors), SecureEdge™ (Linux-based Internet appliances including
VPN Internet routers, network attached storage and firewalls), RTXC™ (general
purpose and DSP real-time operating system), BeaconSuite™ (x86 development
toolkit), RTXC™ Quadros™ (a real-time operating system for multi-processor
devices) and Availix™ (mission-critical high availability Linux cluster
solutions).

Press only, contact:
Rhett Glauser
Lineo, Inc.
Tel: 801-426-5001 ext. 351
rhett@lineo.com

Greg Wilfahrt
MP3.com
Tel: 858-623-7280
pr@mp3.com