FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- CULVER CITY, CA, September 5, 2003 -- 4Front Technologies and the X MultiMedia System development team are happy to announce the release of XMMS ver. 1.2.8. XMMS v1.2.8 provides the following new features: Translation/Internationalization: * New translations: Belarusiani (be), Welch (cy), Macedoniani (mk), Slovenian * (sl), Bosnian (bs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Georgian (ka), Albanian * (sq) and Uzbek (uz) General: * Ability to queue the next song in the playlist. (use 'q' on the keyboard * over the song title) * IPv6 support added (disabled by default) CD Audio: * Digital Audio Extraction, enables the use of visualization for CD Audio. * Support for more than one drive. * Dropped support for CDIndex (service no longer active) OGG/Vorbis: * Replaygain support. Audio: * ALSA output plugin. * NetBSD/OpenBSD output plugin. Effects: * Support for multiple effect plugins. ABOUT X MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM: The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is developed by 4Front Technologies under the GNU Public License (GPL) and has a large world-wide developer base that contributes plugins and enahancements. XMMS is a cross platform multimedia player that support MP3, Ogg, Wave, CD, MOD, MIDI, and digital audio and Mpeg1, AVI, Mpeg2 video formats. The XMMS plugin API is published under a BSD license that permits proprietary binary-only plugins or plugins that are GPL/LGPL/Open Source compliant. XMMS is distributed with all the major Linux and FreeBSD distributions. It has become the de-facto media player and has won world-wide acclaim as being one of the best media players for UNIX and Linux. XMMS has won numerous awards from Slashdot, Linux Magazine, Linux Journal and others. More information on XMMS is available at http://www.xmms.org. 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, Linux and embedded Systems marketplace. 4Front is the developer of Open Sound System and is released under a BSD like license. 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, Hewlett Packard 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, Cirrus Logic, MIDIMan, ESS Technologies, CMedia and others. More information on Open Sound System and 4Front Technologies is available at http://www.opensound.com. --XX-- Copyright (C) 2003, 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.