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Loudeye Teams With Dell, StorageTek and Foundry Networks to Deploy Next Generation Digital Media Infrastructure Loudeye's Media Operations Center Now Capable of Processing 4.2 Million Digital Music Tracks a Week Through Migration to High Performance Online Digital Media System SEATTLE, April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Loudeye Corp. , the worldwide leader in business-to-business digital media solutions, today announced it teamed with industry leaders such as Dell, StorageTek and Foundry Networks to advance its world renowned media operations center through the deployment of next generation digital media infrastructure. The combination of new technology and system advancements to Loudeye's $70 million media operations center significantly expands the speed, efficiency, volume and capacity of Loudeye's digital media processing, management and distribution services. Through the new infrastructure assets and capabilities, Loudeye is migrating its entire archive of digital music to an optimized online system using Fibre Channel disk and Gigabit Ethernet. The migration to a true "online" environment provides near instant and automated processing of digital media files in any format or size. As a result, Loudeye's production capacity will grow from a current rate of 490,000 digital music files a week to approximately 4.2 million files a week, or 25,000 an hour. Loudeye is integrating PowerEdge servers to function as encoders, increasing digital media processing capabilities by more than 50%. Additionally, Loudeye is deploying disk and controllers from StorageTek(R), adding more than 200 terabytes of storage, enabling real-time encoding, and pushing Loudeye's total aggregate storage capacity to nearly one thousand terabytes, or one petabyte. Foundry Networks provided the advanced network switch infrastructure for supporting the underlying architecture and network flow. "Loudeye's deployment of our storage management systems significantly reduces the complexity and administrative demands of operating a high volume digital media center," said Michael McLay, StorageTek's vice president of sales and service. "We worked closely with Loudeye to evaluate the specific technical demands of migrating their music archive online and bolstering their processing capabilities. StorageTek's industry premium D280 disk system, combined with additional, high performance servers and controllers, provides a highly effective solution for creating, managing and processing hundreds of millions of digital media files in an online environment." Loudeye's media operations center is one of the most sophisticated digital media facilities in the industry and houses the world's largest archive of digital music stored in original, uncompressed .WAV format. Loudeye's digital music archive, currently housing 4.5 million full song digital media tracks with associated metadata and cover art, is rapidly growing through the addition of independent label content from around the world as a result of the recently announced Loudeye IndieSource program. "To date we've delivered tens of millions of digital media files and delivered more than a billion music clips to our customers around the world," said John Martin, Loudeye's executive vice president of technology and development. "As companies continue to enter the market and existing companies enhance their digital media presence, access to the latest digital media technologies and systems is critical to their success. These advancements to our media operations center move our already industry leading infrastructure to the next level, ready to support high volume digital media projects, emerging business models and high bandwidth requirements associated with other media including computer games, software and digital video." About Loudeye Corp. Loudeye is the worldwide leader in business-to-business digital media solutions and the outsourcing provider of choice for companies looking to maximize the return on their digital media investment. Loudeye combines innovative products and services with the world's largest music archive and the industry's leading digital media infrastructure enabling partners to rapidly and cost effectively launch complete, customized digital media stores and services. For more information, visit http://www.loudeye.com/. About StorageTek StorageTek is a $2 billion global company that enables businesses, through its information lifecycle management strategy, to align the cost of storage with the value of information. The company's innovative storage solutions manage the complexity and growth of information, lower costs, improve efficiency and protect investments. For more information, see http://www.storagetek.com/. Forward Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Loudeye's relationship with Dell, StorageTek and Foundry Networks, and the use, performance, expected benefits and projected revenue associated with Loudeye's digital media solutions and enhancements to its music infrastructure; and statements by Loudeye's executive vice president of technology and development. These statements are based on current estimates and actual results may differ materially due to risks, including the possibility of adverse changes in the market for distribution of digital audio and video that Loudeye serves; adverse or uncertain legal developments with respect to copyrights surrounding the creation and distribution of digital content; pricing pressures and other activities by competitors; the failure of Loudeye's hosting infrastructure; the complexity of Loudeye's services and delivery networks; any problems or failures in the structure, complexities or redundancies of Loudeye's network infrastructure; failures in third party telecommunication and network providers to provide required transmission capacity; Loudeye's capacity to scale and support third party technologies; lack of market acceptance for Loudeye's products and services; the possible delay in the adoption of digital media or related applications on the web in general; and other risks set forth in Loudeye's most recent Form 10-Q, Form 10-K and other SEC filings which are available through EDGAR at http://www.sec.gov/. Loudeye assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements. NOTE: StorageTek and the StorageTek logo are registered trademarks of Storage Technology Corporation. Other names mentioned may be trademarks of Storage Technology Corporation or other vendors/manufacturers. DATASOURCE: Loudeye Corp. CONTACT: media, Karen DeMarco of mPRm, +1-323-933-3399, or , for Loudeye; or investors, Michael Dougherty of Loudeye, +1-206-832-4000, or Web site: http://www.storagetek.com/ Web site: http://www.loudeye.com/

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