Live365 and Audioramp Announce Strategic Partnership
AUDIORAMP’S IRAD FAMILY OF PRODUCTS WILL FEATURE
LIVE365’S RADIO STATIONS
FOSTER CITY, CA - April 16th, 2001 – Live365, the world’s largest Internet broadcasting community with over 30,000 Internet radio stations, and AudioRamp, Inc., a leading provider of Internet stereo products and services enabling users to acquire, manage and interact with their favorite music, today announced a strategic partnership for content delivery.
The partnership will provide more than 30,000 of Live365’s Internet stations to the iRADTM family of products, OEM audio partners, and to the company’s MyAudioRamp.comTM Web site allowing consumers to search through and listen to any of the streaming broadcasts available in Live365’s comprehensive directory.
“The partnership between AudioRamp and Live365 will give iRAD users easy access to the largest selection of Internet radio stations worldwide,” said Dan Sheppard, president of AudioRamp. “This further solidifies AudioRamp’s goal of providing audiophiles with dynamic and personalized access to audio content surrounding their favorite artists or genres, all from a single touch-point.”
“Live365 continues to develop partnerships that reflect our goal of making Internet radio available, anywhere and at any time,” said John Jeffrey, EVP corporate strategy and general counsel of Live365. “We are excited about working with AudioRamp to offer our listeners another access point to our diverse offering, thus freeing listening from the PC.”
ABOUT INTELLIGENTAUDIOTM
Developed exclusively by AudioRamp, IntelligentAudio technology is an unique embedded client/ server based connectivity solution that leverages devices, servers, a website, ISP and the open architecture of the Internet to turn a consumer’s passive listening experience into a dynamic and personal one based on there listening behaviors, actions and preferences. AudioRamp’s IntelligentAudio technology is embedded into the iRAD family of Internet Stereos, the MyAudioRamp.com website and the company’s iPAN Internet Personal Audio Network and can be licensed for additional audio devices.
ABOUT AUDIORAMP
Founded in 1999, AudioRamp, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet stereo's enabling users to acquire, manage and interact with Traditional & Internet Audio and Online Content from a single music solution. Powered by IntelligentAudio™ technology, the Company’s iRAD Internet stereos enable users to play AM/FM, Standard & MP3-CD’s, Streaming & MP3, store their CD music collection to the units hard disk drive and connect online to the Internet or MyAudioRamp.com (a personalized music website) to sample, access and purchase music, news, merchandise, web events, and promotions, without the use of a PC. With the company’s iPAN network, a secure (DRM), peer-to-peer Internet Personal Audio Network that connects to the iRAD and a PC-based software application called iPANManager, users can access and manage their music and then distribute selections, play-lists and/ or their entire catalogues to any of their other personal devices. With AudioRamp’s unprecedented three-part solution, audio enthusiasts can conveniently get access to the music and related resources they Want, Where they want it and When they want it. For more information on the company visit their web site at www.audioramp.com or call (949) 789-1140.
About Live365
Live365 (www.live365.com) is the world’s largest broadcaster of streaming MP3 content on the Internet, with more than 30,000 free stations available for users to listen to at anytime, and innovative proprietary technology for users to broadcast their personal, unique tastes or talents to a worldwide audience. Rated one of the largest aggregate network streamers in a recent report issued by Arbitron, Live365’s “Studio365” tools empower traditional radio stations, record companies, community groups and others with a free and easy solution to streaming audio over the Internet. A leader in the development of Internet radio through wireless channels, Live365 created the first streaming MP3 player for the PocketPC platform. Founded in July 1999 in Foster City, CA, Live365 has been named one of the “Top 6 Killer Apps” of streaming media by Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, one of the world’s top international investment banks, in its May 2000 report “Internet, Broadband, and Enhanced TV.”
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