4FRONT TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES NEW 3D AUDIO TECHNOLOGIES AND A WINAMP PLUGIN OSS/3D Software Plug-in for Winamp Targetted at audio appliance and Internet Streaming Media sector Culver City, CA - March 13, 2001 - 4Front Technologies, a leading supplier of digital and analog audio solutions for the Linux and UNIX Operating System platform, announced today the launch of its new OSS/3D technology. The OSS/3D technology is being showcased as a plugin for AOL's Winamp MP3 player that runs under Microsoft Windows. OSS/3D comprises of a set of 3D audio algorithms that provide stereo seperation, spatialization, depth perception, bass boost, and speaker correction. Such technologies while currently available as separte products cannot match OSS/3D's abilities to chain such effects and algorithms into a pipeline architecture. OSS/3D works with standard 2-speaker based soundcards. Currently MP3 players provide a very mediocre sound on a pair of standard headphones or a computer speakers. But with OSS/3D these same players can be made to sound like true home stereo audio equipment. "With the introduction of OSS/3D for Winamp, 4Front Technologies intends to showcase its proprietary 3D audio technologies to a wide audience. These technologies will be available to audio appliance manufacturers who wish to provide more feature rich audio products and provide a product differentiation in a market that is mostly saturated with standard stereo audio output", said Dev Mazumdar, president of 4Front Technologies. More information on the OSS/3D is available at http://www.oss3d.com and the Plugin for Winamp can be purchased online at an introductory price of $10.00. About 4Front Technologies 4Front Technologies 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. 4Front's Open Sound System has become the "de-facto" audio API for UNIX and is distributed with Linux and FreeBSD kernel sources under the GNU Public License (GPL). Open Sound System has been licensed by companies like SCO, Hewlett Packard, Wind River Systems and endorsed by SUN Microsystems. The commercial version of Open Sound System sold by 4Front Technologies is also bundled in Linux distributions from Corel, Caldera, SuSE and MIZI, Holon Software and MandrakeSoft. Additional information on Open Sound System is available at http://www.opensound.com The X Multimedia System (XMMS) project is developed under the GNU Public License (GPL) by 4Front Technologies. XMMS is a cross platform multimedia player that supports MP3, Wave, MPEG1 Video, VideoCD, Amiga MOD, MIDI, and other digital audio and video formats. It also provides MP3 streaming playback support over the Internet and provides visual graphics synchronized to sound output. It also provides complete control over GUI layout and design. XMMS has received many prestigious awards as the most popular media application on Linux from Linux Journal, Linux Magazine and SlashDot.Org. More information on XMMS is available at http://www.xmms.org Notices: OSS/3D is a trademark of 4Front Technologies. All copyrights mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Copyright © 2001, 4Front Technologies.