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Los Angeles, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - May 1, 2006 - According to Napster, it has released the first legal digital music service to offer music fans free, on-demand listening to over two million major and independent-label tracks.

A web-based music player enables Napster music to be heard anywhere online at no cost while allowing purchase of individual tracks, albums and subscriptions to Napster’s premium services.

As part of Napster’s web strategy, the company announced two additional features of Napster.com, NapsterLinks and the soon to be released Narchive, two resources designed to help music fans discover more music and easily share their personal music experiences with other fans.

Napster Chairman and CEO Chris Gorog will formally introduce Napster.com as part of his keynote speech at the 2nd annual MUSEXPO event in Los Angeles.

In addition to listening to free full-length songs and albums, Napster.com members can search through Napster.com’s enormous music catalog and access original artist biographies and exclusive programming features, including over 150 pre-programmed playlists. The new Napster.com may be used with any web browser on PC, Macintosh or Linux operating systems, without downloading any software or plug-ins.

Listening to Napster.com’s music collection requires creating a member name and password and providing a valid e-mail address. Current Napster subscribers can use their existing member name and password. The free music experience is initially being introduced in the United States and will be extended to other territories over time.

Chris Gorog, Chairman and CEO of Napster commented, ”Napster was born of the idea of eliminating all barriers to discovering, enjoying and sharing music and of putting the power in the hands of fans. With a vision to empower music fans in a legal environment, with an open, all-inclusive platform, we are very excited to share our new free music experience at Napster.com.”

In addition to providing free listening to Napster’s massive music library, Napster.com also offers new features designed to encourage the global music community to enjoy a more interactive experience. NapsterLinks is intended to enable anyone to add links to free Napster music to e-mails, instant messages, blogs and websites, enabling them to bring text to life with free music. NapsterLinks are URLs that link to specific songs, albums or artists in the Napster.com catalog that can be created using a simple, free tool available on the web site.

Members may also populate their personal entries with free music links from Napster (NapsterLinks) so all members of Napster.com can simultaneously listen to the artists they are reading and writing about. The Narchive, which will be available as a Beta shortly, offers original biographical information and exclusive photos of artists for anyone to browse. It also features content from some of the foremost authorities in music, such as writer and editor Neil Feineman, who created many of the original featured biographies, and renowned photo archivist Michael Ochs, whose extensive galleries of original photos are featured exclusively in Napster.com.

The Narchive is a community where music fans and experts can all engage in an ongoing, interactive, audio/visual dialogue about anything and everything in the world of music. Rounding out Napster’s comprehensive music offerings are the Napster and Napster To Go subscription services.

Mr. Gorog continued, ”With all the progress the digital music industry has made over the past few years, a digital music model that fully-satisfies everyone - fans, artists, labels and rights holders - has yet to surface. We believe we have taken a significant step toward achieving this goal and are grateful for the cooperative support of the record industry in making this a reality.”

According to the company, with historical visitation of approximately two million unique visitors per month, Napster offers advertisers access to millions of music fans and an association with the most well-known music brand on the web.

For more information about Napster, please visit: www.napster.com.

To learn more about the new Napster launch and executive speech, please visit: www.wsw.com/webcast/cc/naps2/.

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