NimbleMusic Launches First Comprehensive Ripping & Loading Services

NimbleMusic Launches First Comprehensive Ripping & Loading Services

Innovative Services Address the Increasing Demand for Portable & Personal Media

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- NimbleMusic, LLC(TM) announced today that it has launched several new services to help consumers convert and load their music, photo, home movie and DVD collections onto today's personal media players like the video iPod(R) and Sony's PSP(TM). This is the first such service offering -- to convert every media type, under one roof -- of its kind in the US.

"NimbleMusic's philosophy is that no personal media gets left behind in the iPod era," said Peter Haimovitz, president of NimbleMusic. "Do-it-yourself conversion, ripping and player loading is time-consuming, technically challenging and easily left undone or incomplete. Making the process simple -- by staying on top of evolving technology, streamlining the ordering and service packaging, and delivering the highest quality conversions -- is NimbleMusic's value," continued Haimovitz.

"Today's powerful new personal media players -- extremely portable and brimming with storage -- is the ideal platform on which the soundtrack and cinema of your life converge. Our all-media approach to conversion and loading makes the whole tedious process simple," asserts Haimovitz. "NimbleMusic's services enable its customers to preserve and easily transport all of their personal media."

NimbleMusic new media ripping and loading services include: DVD & CD ripping, LP & Cassette to Digital Conversion, and Videocassette & Film to Digital Conversion. Device loading is included in all services. Supported players include: Apple iPod, Sony PSP, Creative Zen Vision. NimbleMusic will also load external/portable hard drives, Mac Mini's, media PC's, or media servers.

Lisa Greenberg, a regional business manager from Apple's Business Agent Program, says, "NimbleMusic's business model is terrific, these services provide real value to our iPod customers."

NimbleMusic's Services

DVD Ripping Service: Most people don't have the right technology, the know-how, or the time and patience to convert their DVDs into the appropriate digital formats to play on their iPod or other personal media player.

Service includes: custom packing kit to safely ship your store-bought DVDs; DVDs are converted to your personal media player's required digital video file format; new digital video files loaded onto your portable media player, external/portable hard drive, Mac Mini, media PC, or media server.

James Mellett of Newburyport, MA had 20 DVDs converted and loaded onto his video iPod. "I tried to do this myself. What a mistake that was. I wasted countless hours and my blood pressure still hasn't recovered. NimbleMusic's DVD to iPod loading service was fantastic. They sent me a box that contained a DVD spindle to load my DVDs on to and packing material for my iPod. I received my loaded iPod and DVDs back from them in three days."

CD Ripping Service: Anyone can rip a CD, but if you have over fifty, it becomes tedious, very time-consuming and more than likely poorly done.

Service includes: a custom packing kit to safely ship your CDs; CDs are converted to MP3 or equivalent; new digital library organized by song, artist, album and genre is loaded onto your personal media player, MP3 player, external/portable hard drive, Mac Mini, media PC, or media server; digital song library is burned onto DVD-Rs for easy back up and loading onto your computer. This popular, high-quality service has been available since October of '05.

LP & Cassette Conversion Service: Converting old records and tapes to digital music files take a lot of time, patience, equipment and technical know-how.

Service includes: custom packing kit to safely ship your records and tapes; physical cleaning of each LP or cassette; LP/cassette tracks converted to lossless (WAV, AIFF) or compressed (MP3, AAC) digital formats; filtering software to remove most pops/clicks/scratches on LPs and hiss build-up on tapes; album tracks burned to audio CD, song tracks burned to data DVD-R or both; new digital library loaded onto your personal media player, MP3 player external/portable hard drive, Mac Mini, media PC, or media server; your records and tapes repacked and shipped back.

Sara Ferguson of Thetford, VT, a repeat customer said, "It's amazing how my music listening experience has been transformed now that I have all my music in digital format. The process was quick, professional, and most importantly, the NimbleMusic staff was careful with my precious LPs and cassette tapes."

Film to Digital Conversion Service: Converting home movies (8mm, Super8 and 16mm) to the digital format of your personal media player or burning a playable DVD requires sophisticated video equipment, special software, a fast computer, a lot of hard drive space and a good bit of technical know-how.

Service includes: custom packing kit to safely ship your movie reels; transfer of your film using our unique digital film transfer to ensure that the quality of your film is completely maintained; technology that guarantees the most exact transfer of your movies so that no color, light or speed is compromised in the transfer process; music, titles, backgrounds added to converted film; movies converted to MP4 format, burned onto playable DVDs or data DVD-Rs and loaded onto your personal media player, external/portable hard drive, Mac Mini, media pc or media server.

One of NimbleMusic's beta customers for its film to digital conversion service, Kevin VanKirk of Washington, DC said, "I gave NimbleMusic 20 reels of 8mm film that my dad shot of our family in the 60s to convert and load onto my video iPod. I was blown away by the quality of the digital conversion, not to mention that I am watching bits of family history on my iPod, whenever and wherever I go. Preserving these family treasures was one of the smartest things I've ever done."

Video Tape to Digital Conversion Service: Converting old videocassettes to a playable DVD or to the format of your personal media player requires lots of time and a good amount of audio/video/computer savvy.

Service includes: custom packing kit to safely ship your videocassettes; converts and preserves your movies in the MPEG2 format which is used for DVD and high definition video; movies converted to MP4 format, burned onto playable DVDs, and loaded onto your personal media player, external/portable hard drive, Mac Mini, media PC media server.

"We've left no media out of our new conversion and ripping services," says Haimovitz. "The new players demand it. You can and should take it with you!"

Pricing & Availability

All of NimbleMusic's conversion services are available now. Pricing is based upon the quantity and type of conversions requested. Please see the company website (http://www.nimblemusic.com/) for specific pricing information.

About NimbleMusic, LLC

NimbleMusic LLC(TM), an Apple Authorized Business Agent, is New England's premier media ripping and loading service provider. Founded in 2005 -- by technology and media professionals with a passion for the digital media lifestyle -- NimbleMusic(TM) is a privately held digital media services company based in South Royalton, VT. NimbleMusic uses advanced technology to convert CD, LP, Cassette, Home Movie and DVD collections into portable digital media libraries.

NimbleMusic's R&D team will be constantly scanning the technology/media horizons to develop complementary services to enhance and enrich the lives of its customers.

For more information about NimbleMusic, visit http://www.nimblemusic.com/ or call 802-763-7715

Contact:
Peter J. Haimovitz
802-763-7715
peter@nimblemusic.com

Source: NimbleMusic, LLC

CONTACT: Peter J. Haimovitz of NimbleMusic LLC, +1-802-763-7715,
peter@nimblemusic.com

Web site: http://www.nimblemusic.com/

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