FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- CULVER CITY, CA, September 21, 1999 -- 4Front Technologies and the X MultiMedia System team are happy to announce the release of XMMS version 0.95. XMMS is a multi-format audio player capable of playing .wav, .au, .mod, .mid and .mp3 (MP3 Audio) files. XMMS v0.95 provides the following new features: o Visualization Support (VIS Plugins) o Equalizer shade mode. o Number of stability fixes for the mpg123 plugin. o Changed the Effect plugin system to make it more flexible. o Better mouse-wheel/keyboard support. o Support for reading ID3v2 tags. (read only) o Added HTTP authorization (http://user:pw@host) o Info about the mpeg stream in the file info box. o Option to recognizing files by content. (mpg123 input plugin) o If a new url has no "http://" prefix, one is prepended to the string. o Random select skin on play funktion. o User defined pause between songs. New Plugins: o Cin Video player input plugin (Quake2 Movies). (input) o Blur Scope (Visualization) o Spectrum Analyzer (Visualization) o OpenGL Spectrum Analyzer (Visualization) With the support of the VIS plugins, XMMS now matches the capabilities of the popular MS Windows application WinAmp(TM). XMMS is released under the GNU Public License and has been widely hailed as one of the best multimedia applications for Linux. ABOUT 4FRONT TECHNOLOGIES: 4Front is a privately held company with development facilities in California, Finland and Sweden. 4Front's main focus is on developing audio solutions for the UNIX and embedded Systems marketplace. Open Sound System has become the "de-facto" audio API that is now distributed with Linux and FreeBSD kernel sources and licensed by companies like SCO, Wind River Systems and endorsed by SUN Microsystems. Open Sound System provides a cross-platform audio API with device drivers for over 250 brand name sound cards from vendors like Creative Labs, Yamaha, Crystal Semiconductor Aureal, ESS Technologies and others. More information on Open Sound System and 4Front Technologies is available at http://www.opensound.com --XX-- Copyright 1999, 4Front Technologies. All rights reserved. Open Sound System is a trade mark of 4Front Technologies XMMS and X MultiMedia System is a trade mark of 4Front Technologies Linux is a registered trade mark of Linus Torvalds UNIX is a registered trade mark of X/Open Company Ltd. All other trade marks that appear in this document are acknowledged and owned by their respective owners.