friendlyway: Now music fans can keep the hits and junk the b-tracks / Personalised music CDs with nothing but your favourite numbers / CeBit Press Release
11.02.2000, 14:00
Munich, Germany (PROTEXT) - Good news for music lovers wholike truffle pigs like to sniff out the gems on a music CD. Atthis year's CeBIT friendlyway is presenting a public internetshop which can produce personalised music CDs. Customers can usethis to put together a collection of their personal favouritetracks the "truffles". This means that the kind of padding thatwas almost universal between the good tracks on CDs is a thing ofthe past. Internet outlets will be set up during the year inseveral well-frequented locations. Via a touch-sensitive display customers can use theirfingertips to put together the pieces of music they like. To dothis, MP3 files with short "jingles" are downloaded frominternet. The music tracks themselves come from a local dataserver and are burned directly into the CD. Best of all,customers can even print the label with their favourites. "Thismeans that a personal ideal CD with a "personalised lovingmessage" on the label is a realisable idea for a gift forValentine's Day," says Werner Gruber, marketing director atfriendlyway. friendlyway AG is bringing the internet outlets to placesheavily frequented by the public such as department stores, townhalls, universities, hospitals and more. In Germany 85 per centof the population still has no individual internet access.friendlyway is planning a launch on Frankfurt's New Market, theover-the-counter market. Visit us at CeBIT in Hall 8, Stand A35, or athttp://www.friendlyway.com. Contact: Andreas Stuetz friendlywayAG, Muenchnerstrasse 12-16. 85774 Unterfoehring Tel: ++49 (0) 8995 97 91 55 Fax: ++49 (0) 89 95 97 91 40 e-mail:andreas.stuetz@friendlyway.com Internet:http://www.friendlyway.com
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