Napster Gives Away Free MP3 Player Providing Turn Key Portable Music Solution

Napster Gives Away Free MP3 Player Providing Turn Key Portable Music Solution

Company Offering Free 512MB Flash Music Player to Fans Who Sign Up for Three Months of Napster To Go Portable Subscription Service

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Napster, Inc. (NASDAQ:NAPS) announced today that music fans will receive a free 512MB flash-based compatible MP3 player when they purchase just three months of the company's award-winning Napster To Go portable music subscription service. The company also announced that Napster's popular 1GB MP3 player it began offering in June is now available for just $50 with the same three-month service agreement.

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Napster To Go is the world's first portable music subscription service and allows music fans to fill and refill compatible MP3 players with their choice of tracks from Napster's 2 million plus song catalog for just $14.95 a month. The new offer brings the cost for a comprehensive, turn-key digital music solution to less than $50.

"By giving our subscribers a free Napster MP3 player they can immediately begin enjoying unlimited downloads with Napster To Go and not have to worry about hardware," said Chris Gorog, Napster's chairman and CEO. "When music fans subscribe to Napster To Go they will never have to pay $1 per track again and can download and transfer as much music as they want to our free Napster MP3 player."

Music fans can sign up for a three-month service agreement to receive the Napster MP3 player at www.napster.com/special_offer.html. The free 512MB MP3 player is a new offering, featuring the same design style and features of the 256MB player previously offered. The 1GB flash based portable media device introduced in June offers not only greater storage capacity but also features a color LCD screen, FM tuner, six equalizer settings, support for both WMA and MP3 files and can be used to view JPEG files and play MPEG4 videos.

Priced at just $50, the 1GB device has received positive reviews by gadget sites CNET.com and DAPReview.net both of which noted that the device is feature-packed and offers excellent battery life, making the additional cost of purchase worth the investment. To read the full reviews, please search for Napster from CNET's editors' reviews pages at http://reviews.cnet.com/ or at http://www.dapreview.net/.

About Napster

Napster, the pioneer of digital music, offers the ultimate interactive music experience. With an expanding roster of offerings including free, Web-based music listening and sharing, subscription and portable subscription services, and an advanced mobile music platform, Napster creates better ways to discover, share, acquire and enjoy music -- anytime, anywhere. Napster is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, London, Frankfurt and Tokyo.

Becky Farina
Napster
310-281-5000
becky.farina@napster.com

Natalie A. Svider / Rose Maciejewski
Ruder Finn, Inc.
310-882-4006 / 310-882-4002
svidern@ruderfinn.com /
maciejewskir@ruderfinn.com

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CONTACT: Becky Farina of Napster, +1-310-281-5000,
becky.farina@napster.com; or Natalie A. Svider, +1-310-882-4006,
svidern@ruderfinn.com, or Rose Maciejewski, +1-310-882-4002,
maciejewskir@ruderfinn.com, both of Ruder Finn, Inc., for Napster, Inc.

Web site: http://www.napster.com/special_offer.html

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