Napster Offers FREE Trial Of Premium Service, Introduces New Napster Burnpak and Expands Retailers Of Pre-Paid Cards For The Holidays

Napster Debuts New "Burnpak" at Retail; Increases Availability of Pre-Paid Music Cards to Nearly 20,000 Locations, with Addition of RadioShack

Long Angeles, California - (December 2, 2003) - Napster®, a division of Roxio (Nasdaq: ROXI), today announced a series of special holiday offers allowing music fans to give and get the gift of music:

• Consumers who log on to Napster.com in December will get a free three-day trial of Napster's popular premium subscription service. The free trial gives music lovers three days of unlimited listening to the largest music catalog available online, access to 40 on-demand radio stations and all the community and music discovery features Napster has to offer - at no cost. As an added holiday bonus, consumers who subscribe to the premium service after their free trial ends will receive an added gift of 5 free tracks that can be burned to CD or transferred to the Samsung-Napster Player, or more than 40 other portable music devices.
• Holiday shoppers can add RadioShack, one of the nation's top consumer electronics retailers, with stores in nearly every neighborhood in America, to the list of retailers featuring the pre-paid Napster Music Card, which already includes RiteAid, Best Buy, CompUSA, Kroger, Safeway, ExxonMobil, Duane Reade, Diamond Shamrock and Speedway/ SuperAmerica. The Napster Card, developed in partnership with InComm, offers 15 downloads for $14.85, allowing music fans - for the first time - to easily stuff stockings with Napster's digital music, without the need for a credit card. Retailer commitments will total nearly 20,000 locations by year's end.
• Rounding out the company's holiday offerings is the retail availability of the easy-to-use Napster Burnpak®, an affordable digital music product which couples the best-selling burning software, Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator™ 6 Starter Kit, with Napster, the most popular name in online music, in one convenient box. The Burnpak allows music fans to produce their own CDs, complete with custom labels, and add music to their photos and videos. Consumers who purchase the Napster Burnpak, priced at $29.99, also get to choose five free tracks from Napster that they can download, burn to CD or DVD and share with loved ones. The Napster Burnpak is available at leading retailers including Best Buy, CompUSA and Fry's Electronics.

"Digital music will undoubtedly be at the top of many consumers' wish lists this holiday season," said Roxio CEO, Chris Gorog. "These new offerings make Napster easily available both online and at retail, where the Roxio brand is extremely strong, and they're a great way to make online music available to a broader audience."

Napster 2.0 raises the bar for online music. It enables fans to freely sample the world's largest and most diverse online collection of music, featuring over half a million songs. The revolutionary, easy-to-use interface allows users to quickly and easily download tracks, transfer songs to portable devices or burn them to CDs for just 99 cents per track or $9.95 per album. In addition to the free online magazine, Billboard charts, music videos, song clips and the ability to email tracks to friends and browse other members' collections, serious music fans have the added option to upgrade to a premium service that offers unlimited listening and downloading, over 40 commercial-free radio stations and a collection of interactive play lists and community features, all for just $9.95 a month.

About Napster

Napster® is the world's most recognized brand in online music. Napster has content agreements with the five major record labels, as well as hundreds of independents. Napster delivers access to the largest catalog of online music with more than 500,000 tracks spanning all genres and artists from Eminem to Miles Davis. Napster is a division of Roxio, Inc., (Nasdaq: ROXI), the Digital Media Company, provider of the best-selling digital media software in the world. Napster has offices in Los Angeles and New York.

About Roxio

Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, develops and markets the best-selling digital media software in the world. Roxio offers award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing and has an installed base of over 150 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, through leading retailers, through Internet partnerships and through direct sales at www.roxio.com. Roxio's parent company, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com) is the leader in digital media software and provides a broad range of software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users and technology partners. Sonic's products range from professional DVD authoring systems and interactive content delivery technologies that are used to produce the majority of Hollywood movies released on DVD, to the award-winning Roxio- and Sonic-branded CD and DVD creation, playback and backup applications that have become the premiere solutions for consumers and business users worldwide. Sonic's AuthorScript® is the de facto standard for CD and DVD burning and formatting and has been licensed by major software and hardware manufacturers, including Adobe, Broadcom, Microsoft, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony, and many others. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.

Safe Harbor Statement:

Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this press release, in particular matters related to future revenue and expenses, customer demand for our software products and for the Napster service, Napster's relationship with marketing partners and hardware manufacturers are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties such as failure to attract new customers, slow growth in demand for online music distribution generally and for the Napster service in particular, intense competition in the software and online music distribution industries, failure to maintain key corporate relationships, general economic conditions and undetected errors in our software products and in the Napster software and service that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Additional information on these and other factors are contained in Roxio's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the SEC on November 14, 2003, copies of which are available at the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Roxio assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release.

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