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Snaptune: FM Radio Powers New Way to Shop for Music Online

Snaptune, Inc. today announced the release of Snaptune(TM) One, a radical, new software product that 'downloads' complete songs, talk shows, interviews and live sessions directly from FM radio to a PC.

Snaptune One doesn't just record the radio; it isolates and identifies complete songs, talk shows and other interesting segments automatically.

Users simply pick their favorite local radio stations from a complete list for their location, and Snaptune does the rest. Snaptune One displays a list of the songs playing on the radio as it finds them. Users can sort them, play them, write them, burn them, or transfer them to an iPod or other media player. Snaptune uses advanced pattern matching techniques to find songs without any reference to play lists or other external data allowing it to work on almost any radio station anywhere in the world. Within a week hundreds of songs are typically available, and the list keeps growing from there.

Snaptune One can even podcast directly across a home network to iTunes on a user's laptop and from there onto an iPod. Every morning a user's iPod can be primed and ready to go with the morning news, favorite NPR shows, and the latest songs Snaptune found during the night. Just add coffee!

Snaptune One works with online music stores to provide a direct link to purchase albums related to any song it finds. Album covers and reviews are shown in the Snaptune One user interface so users can browse while listening to complete songs. A single click on any album cover takes a user online to purchase the CD. Snaptune plans to add links for individual song downloads, ring tones and concert tickets in the future.

FM radio is by far the most popular way to find new music as was confirmed in a recent poll by The Associated Press-Rolling Stone. No other software product links the two together like Snaptune does.

Two versions of Snaptune One are available in Beta today -- a free version that can write or transfer up to 20 songs and a premium version for $39.95 that can export an unlimited number of songs in either WMA or MP3 format. The free version is fully functional apart from the limit on writing. It still finds an unlimited number of songs, lets users listen to them and links them to purchase the albums containing them. Both versions will be upgraded automatically to the final version as soon as it is available.

Snaptune One works with common FM tuner cards like those found in most Media Center PCs, and with external USB FM tuners like the Griffin radioSHARK. It can also work with a simple line-in cable connected to an existing radio or FM receiver.

About Snaptune, Inc.

Snaptune, Inc. is a privately held, Bellevue, WA corporation founded in 2005. Snaptune's co-founders include Bill Baxter, founder of BSQUARE Corporation and Ian Mercer, founder of Automap Inc.

Snaptune, Inc.'s first product, Snaptune One, was created to address the founders' frustration with how hard it was to find great new music to buy. They had tried all of the online music services, they had clicked through catalogs containing millions of songs, but all they found was 'more of the same.' There was no 'human guide' there to help, certainly not one with both local knowledge and an appetite for variety.

Meanwhile, however, as they drove around, they heard great new music on local radio stations. Local DJs guided them to new songs, often radically different to what they already had in their CD collection; but without a 'buy' button on their car radio the song names were soon forgotten.

Snaptune One created a direct link from the songs they heard on the radio to a way to purchase the albums containing them.

Web site: www.snaptuneone.com

iTunes, iPod, Griffin, RadioSHARK and Windows Media Player are trademarks of their respective holders.

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