MUSICMATCH Jukebox Software Ships With HP Jornada 560 PDA Series

Offering Extends Worldwide Digital Music Alliance and Gives Millions of HP Customers Freedom to Enjoy Digital Music On and Off the Desktop

MUSICMATCH Inc., a recognized leader in developing personalized music software and services, today announced the expansion of a two-year worldwide software distribution alliance with Hewlett-Packard Company that will put the award-winning MUSICMATCH(R) Jukebox(TM) software in the hands of HP Jornada 560 PDA series customers.

With this latest agreement, MUSICMATCH Jukebox is now the featured jukebox software with the HP Jornada 560 PDA series and the default digital music jukebox on all HP Pavilion notebook and home desktop PCs.

MUSICMATCH Jukebox provides customers with a complete personal music system for experiencing the best in digital music. MUSICMATCH Jukebox makes it quick and easy for music fans to manage their digital music collections as well as create and transfer custom playlists of favorite MP3 music to the HP Jornada 560 PDA series for listening enjoyment anywhere. Music fans can also easily play, record, organize and discover new music with the MUSICMATCH Guide and listen to thousands of streams of personalized music with MUSICMATCH Radio MX, both of which are integrated into the MUSICMATCH Jukebox interface.

"MUSICMATCH has worked together with HP with one key objective in mind -- to make it easy, fun and exciting for music fans to experience the benefits of digital music," said Dennis Mudd, CEO of MUSICMATCH Inc. "HP Jornada 560 PDA series customers will enjoy the freedom of digital music that MUSICMATCH Jukebox has given to millions of existing HP customers around the globe for the past two years."

"MUSICMATCH has consistently demonstrated a keen understanding of what consumers want from digital music, and we are pleased to offer HP Jornada customers the latest version of MUSICMATCH's award-winning digital music jukebox," said Kok Khoon Lim, general manager of HP's Jornada organization. "Featuring MUSICMATCH Jukebox on HP PCs and peripherals provides our customers with one of the most powerful, versatile and exciting digital-music systems available."

More than 10 million copies of MUSICMATCH Jukebox have shipped with HP PCs and peripherals in the past two years. MUSICMATCH Jukebox became the default MP3 and audio CD player on all HP Pavilion home desktop PCs in November 1999, followed by HP Pavilion notebook PCs and previous versions of the HP Jornada PDA series running color Pocket PC software.


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