NEXTUNE PAYS CONSUMERS TO PLAY THEIR DIGITAL MUSIC.

NexTune, a Redmond, Wash., start up is offering consumers over $50,000 in free music to help build its Music Recognition database. NexTune is building the most comprehensive song identification system for digital music recognition. Until now, online music databases such as Gracenote(TM), the FreeDB and The All Music Group(TM) have only provided CD level information. NexTune is launching the first song level database that provides detailed song profiles, such as tempo, style, vocals, moods and even instruments contained in a song. When you combine NexTune's song profile database with its patent pending music play-listing technology, consumers now can create play-lists comprised of hundreds of songs in a matter of seconds.

Unlike other online database systems, NexTune offers the music consumer a 10 cent credit towards music purchases from their built in CD music store for every song profile they submit from their music collection. For the music consumer, it pays to play. NexTune has published over 500,000 songs that consumers can profile using the NexTune play-list software.

Michael DuKane, NexTune president, stated, "Technology companies have done a good job at solving the storage and portability issue surrounding digital music. But they have done little to actually empower the music consumer with the ability to create custom play-lists based on the characteristics of a song. We take play-listing music to a whole new level. Our system lets you build play-lists based on your mood or attitude. The idea of the music lover having to drag and position songs in a list to achieve a smooth flow is asking a lot from someone who simply wants to enjoy their music collection. We make it simple for consumers who combine our patent pending song profile system with their music collection to make a play-list that would challenge some of the world's best professional music programmers."

NexTune is the only music software that integrates both Apple's Fair Play technology with Microsoft's(TM) DRM technology to play both iTunes(TM) purchased music and songs purchased from other music sites featuring Microsoft's "PlaysForSure"(TM) technology. Consumers can play-list both music formats back to back in the same play-list. This is a major step at freeing the consumer from the limitations imposed by the technology companies, while at the same time respecting the rights of the music publishers and artists.

Michael DuKane explains, "We didn't crack anyone's DRM, we simply leveraged their technology by building the only player that incorporates the competing DRM technologies into a single application. We went even further by building the NexTune player around our own proprietary play-list technology to provide the most powerful play-listing music player ever introduced. And, this is only the beginning. We will soon release NexTune 3.0 in a few short months that will incorporate compatibility with the most popular portable digital media devices including the iPod(TM). The NexTune promise is full and complete compatibility across all platforms."

NexTune is also the only music software that features a built in CD music store that lets users buy new and used CDs in addition to allowing them to sell CDs they don't want anymore for instant credit. Users of the NexTune software can use the credits to buy CDs they do want in the NexTune Music Store.

Michael DuKane outlines the future of NexTune to also include a digital music download store. He explains, "We are all about music and we're all about compatibility. It is what the entire music industry should be committed to and require of all digital music services. Conflicting technology only supports the technology companies and has a damaging effect on the music business. Our digital download music store will follow these same principles and only offer cross platform compatible music. The introduction of NexTune is living proof you can have cross compatible technology without sacrificing the protections of DRM. The music industry just has to take a united stand and make it a licensing requirement of technology companies who choose to be in the music business."

About NexTune, Inc. -- NexTune, Inc. is a music marketing company leveraging technology to improve the personal music experience. NexTune provides music retailers with a new model for distribution; record labels the opportunity to increase revenues with its new and used CD tracking system; and music consumers with a complete music management, playlisting, and programming experience.

For more information, visit http://www.nextune.net or call 425/869-9095, ext. 31.