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Larry Kenswil Resigns from Roxio Board of Directors

Santa Clara, California - (November 14, 2003) - Roxio®, a division of Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, announced today that Larry Kenswil resigned from its board of directors. Mr. Kenswil, President of Universal Music Group's eLabs, joined the board in July after Roxio acquired the PressPlay service from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.

"Larry was a great asset to us while we prepared to launch the new Napster service," said Chris Gorog, Chairman and CEO of Roxio. "His expertise in the music space was invaluable to our launch efforts and we appreciate his ongoing support. We look forward to continuing our relationship with him and with Universal, our largest content provider, as the Napster service evolves."

"The Napster service has established itself as a compelling legal online music service and I am looking forward to continuing Universal's relationship with Napster," said Larry Kenswil.

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, customer demand for the Napster service, Napster's relationship with content providers, 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, failure to maintain key corporate relationships, general economic conditions and undetected errors 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 August 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. Copyright © 2003 Roxio, Inc. All rights reserved. Roxio, the Roxio tagline and Napster are registered trademarks of Roxio, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks used are owned by their respective owners.

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