Napster Previews New Music Service

Online Music Pioneer Announces Commercial Launch Date of October 29th

World's Largest Digital Music Collection, 99-cent Downloads and Bold Vision for Digital Music Beyond the PC

New York, New York - (October 9, 2003) - Napster, a division of Roxio (Nasdaq: ROXI) today announced the much-awaited Napster 2.0 has begun beta testing and will be available to all music fans in the United States on October 29th. The new service will offer 99-cent downloads to anyone with a PC and the largest digital music library in the world with over 500,000 songs. Napster 2.0 will also feature a series of innovative partnerships that empower consumers to move their favorite music from the PC to digital audio devices, into the living room and their cars. Music fans can begin pre-registering for the service immediately at www.napster.com and get five free downloads when the service launches widely to consumers.

"Napster invented online music and we are reinventing it with Napster 2.0," said Chris Gorog, Chairman and CEO of Roxio, Inc., Napster's parent company. "Napster 2.0 is unequivocally the most complete and comprehensive music service in the world."

Napster 2.0 allows anyone with a PC to freely sample the world's largest and most diverse online collection of music from across all genres. An elegant user interface will allow people to quickly and easily search for and purchase music, discover artists, burn CD's and transfer music to portable devices for 99 cents per song or $9.95 per album. Music fans also have the option to upgrade to Napster's premium service for $9.95 per month, which offers unlimited listening and downloading, 40 commercial-free interactive radio stations and a collection of community features, including the ability to email tracks to friends and share play lists with other Napster users. True to Napster's commitment of an open environment, any visitor to the service can - free of charge and with no obligation - download the new Napster 2.0 service, watch music videos on-demand, listen to 30-second music clips, browse decades of Billboard charts, read Napster's new online magazine, "Fuzz," and take full advantage of the most robust music recommendation engine ever created. Napster 2.0 also allows users to import other music files from their hard drives into the service, enabling them to access all their music in one central location, and will provide members with customer support via both email and phone.

Napster 2.0 will launch nationwide on October 29 with a major celebration at the House of Blues in Los Angeles featuring performances by some of the leading new artists in the nation. Hundreds of music lovers will receive tickets to the exclusive event through radio and fan site giveaways in the coming weeks.

"I've used Napster 2.0 and it's really great," said Shawn Fanning, creator of the original Napster service and an advisor to Napster 2.0 on the user experience. "It has community features and tools for discovering new music that were important parts of the original Napster experience. It's fast, easy to use, and the sound quality surpasses that of the original. Digital music takes a big step forward today."

Central to Napster's vision of allowing consumers to access their music anywhere is a series of partnerships with leading consumer electronics companies aimed at moving online music beyond the PC. Napster today unveiled the first product of its partnership with Samsung Electronics to develop a family of portable audio devices. The Samsung-Napster player has been designed to seamlessly integrate with Napster 2.0, resulting in an extremely easy-to-use experience. In addition to traditional portability, the device includes an FM transmitter that allows users to wirelessly play music through their car and home stereos. Adding further to Napster's distribution, Best Buy will be the first national retailer to carry the new Samsung-Napster player, beginning on October 19. Consumers who purchase the device at Best Buy will also gain exclusive access to the Napster 2.0 beta that debuts today.

Adding further mobility and freedom to the Napster 2.0 experience are partnerships with Microsoft and Gateway that allow music fans to experience Napster from the comfort of their couch using a TV and a remote control. As previously announced, Napster will be the featured music service on Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004. Today Napster and Gateway are announcing that consumers who purchase Gateway's Media Center PC's any time this Fall will receive one month of the Napster 2.0 Media Center version, free of charge. In addition, Gateway later this year will be the only PC manufacturer to ship Napster pre-installed on every consumer desktop PC it sells, including 150 songs pre-loaded on the hard drives of these systems.

"Mobility is the ultimate freedom for music lovers and is at the core of the Napster 2.0 experience," explained Napster President Mike Bebel. "These important strategic alliances allow us to ensure that Napster fans can enjoy their music on their terms. Only Napster delivers on the true vision of the celestial jukebox - the music you want, when you want it, where you want it. It's the future of online music, and we're delighted to deliver it to our customers today."

Napster also enjoys a long-standing relationship with Microsoft's Windows Media Player 9 Series, in which the Napster 2.0 service will be accessible to music fans through the Player's "Services" tab. Additionally, Napster users can utilize the Windows Media Player 9 Series to transfer songs to most of the top-selling portable devices sold in the marketplace today.

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, 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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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.