MyerEmco AudioVideo and Riptopia Partner to Offer Turnkey Digital Media Solutions

MyerEmco AudioVideo and Riptopia Partner to Offer Turnkey Digital Media Solutions

WASHINGTON, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading mid-Atlantic A/V specialty retail chain MyerEmco AudioVideo has partnered with Riptopia to offer their customers the industry's leading CD ripping service. The purpose of the union is to save their customers the time, energy and special technical knowledge required to transition their entire CD collections into organized digital music libraries for play on digital media centers, music servers and iPods purchased through MyerEmco AudioVideo.

Gary Yacoubian, President of MyerEmco said, "MyerEmco AudioVideo is thrilled about the partnership we have begun with Riptopia. We view the services they (and now we) provide as an enabler to engage our specialty customers in the exciting and expanding world of digital music files and all the products and systems that world brings along with it."

"Riptopia is delighted to be working with MyerEmco because of its reputation as a bellwether within the Audio Video industry," said Riptopia President Kurt Beyer. "Riptopia's team of computer and digital media experts, combined with MyerEmco's 50 years of experience in providing customers complete home audio and video solutions, is a powerful combination as the AV industry transitions to the digital age."

By applying Riptopia's commercial approach to converting CDs into digital format, MyerEmco AudioVideo and its customers will receive --

* Professionally tagged digital music libraries organized alphabetically
by artist, album, song and genre.
* Quick 48-hour processing time on orders of 1,000 CDs or less.
* Digital music libraries that are compatible with all MyerEmco AudioVideo
products.
* Largest available database of album art and clean tagging/metadata
available -- including 62 million unique song tracks in 80 different
languages -- provided through Riptopia's partners Gracenote and Muze.
These are the same partners used by Apple Music Store, Yahoo Music
Engine, RealPlayer, SonyBMG and Microsoft.
* Riptopia's patent-pending Nirvana technology -- providing the highest
quality digital music conversion.

Riptopia's premiere CD ripping service is available at all 10 MyerEmco AudioVideo stores in the DC-area. To learn more about the MyerEmco AudioVideo-Riptopia partnership, visit http://www.myeremco.com/ or http://www.riptopia.com/.

ABOUT MYEREMCO AUDIOVIDEO

MyerEmco AudioVideo is a 10-store specialty audio/video chain and custom installation designer/installer located in the greater Washington, D.C. market. The company celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2005.

ABOUT RIPTOPIA, INC.

Founded by a talented team of information technology professionals, Riptopia, Inc. is a National digital processing and CD ripping service with digital music processing centers in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, CA. Riptopia, Inc.'s industrial strength ripping servers create organized digital music libraries in a variety of standards including MP3, WMA and WMA lossless and FLAC. Riptopia Inc.'s partnership with Gracenote and Muze provides the standard in digital metadata and CD recognition technology with the cleanest metadata DB of over 62 million titles. Riptopia, Inc. provides uploading service onto a variety of digital music equipment including media centers, music servers and iPods. For more information on Riptopia, Inc., visit http://www.riptopia.com/ or call 800-874-4921.

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Source: Riptopia, Inc.

CONTACT: Ellen King of Riptopia, Inc., +1-202-464-8703

Web site: http://www.riptopia.com/
http://www.myeremco.com/

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