ReadyToPlay, Inc., is a privately held company based in Palo Alto, California. They provide digital music services including CD conversion, audio server and portable digital audio device loading and disaster recovery services.
ReadyToPlay converts each CD using state-of-the-art computer hardware and software. They support a variety of digital formats and organize the music collection by artist, album and genre. The digital music files are then delivered fully loaded onto an external hard drive to be connected to Russound's SMS3 Smart Media Server.

Ready to play also has partnerships in Europe through Ripfactory, a United Kingdom based company. The company believes in the joy that music adds to life and supports legal integration of music into a digital lifestyle.

For more information on ReadyToPlay, visit www.readytoplay.com
For more information on Ripfactory, visit www.ripfactory.com

 
Founded in 1977, LeisureTech Electronics is a global OEM technology provider and manufacturer for the residential systems market. Founder Andrew Goldfinch and Len Andrews teamed up in 1991, and in 1997 invented A-BUS®, a revolutionary technology for multiroom audio. In 2000, Russound and LeisureTech joined to integrate the A-BUS technology in new products, designed by Russound. The result is an award-winning line of amplified volume control products. As the first company to champion A-BUS, Russound, together with LeisureTech, began an extraordinary revolution—the reinvention of multiroom audio. Today, a number of audio-video companies manufacture the A-BUS brand of amplified volume controls furthering A-BUS as a standard for affordable multiroom audio.

For more information, visit www.leisuretech.com.au

iPod
Apple Computer, Inc. ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store.

iPods integrate with a variety of Russound award-winning multiroom components, making the entire music collection stored on an iPod available for everyone in the home to hear at the same time. Whether the multiroom system includes CAV6.6, A-BUS, SMS3 Smart Media Server, CA Series controllers or is a simple Volume Control system, Russound components have been iPod-Friendly since inception.

For more information, go to
www.russound.com for homeowners or www.russound.com/doccenter for integration professionals.


Welcome to the Next Generation of Radio
One big idea can change everything. And XM Satellite Radio is one big idea: Radio to the Power of X. America's most popular satellite radio service gives you the power to choose what you want to hear—wherever and whenever you want it. XM is America's #1 satellite radio provider with over 3 million customers.

XM features 150 digital channels—100% commercial-free music, over 30 channels of news, sports, talk and entertainment, over 20 dedicated channels of XM Instant Traffic & Weather, and the deepest play list in the industry with access to over 2 million titles!

For more information, visit www.xmradio.com


SIRIUS is the premium satellite radio entertainment and information company, providing listeners with over 120 channels of the best in commercial-free music, sports, information and entertainment. Its digital-quality programming is heard coast to coast, and is broadcast daily from New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, Houston and Daytona.

SIRIUS offers 65 totally commercial-free music channels, featuring many genres of Pop, Rock, Country, Hip-Hop, R&B, Dance, Jazz, Classical and Latin music—along with 55 channels of sports, news and talk.

SIRIUS also is the satellite radio service of choice for sports fans, who can follow live play-by-play broadcasts of NHL and NFL games across the United States, and also tune in to SIRIUS NFL Radio, the only 24/7 channel dedicated exclusively to all things NFL.

For more information, visit www.sirius.com

MuzeMusic content offers your customers the most comprehensive collection of music product information available, whether they are listening to a single, searching for an artist, or buying a CD online, or in your store.

MuzeMusic content is known in the industry for its depth and accuracy. Their passion for music, and their insight and knowledge is evident throughout Muze's original biographies, commentary and descriptions. MuzeMusic data, including 200,000 cover art scans, makes it easy for music lovers to find current favorites and discover new ones. Get the most music with MuzeMusic content. 

For more information, visit www.muze.com

Gracenote’s signature CDDB® service is the industry standard for music recognition services. It contains the largest online database of music information in the world, and is used by more than 1 million people in over 130 countries every day. Seamless handling of soundtracks and other compilations, expanded album and track fields, credits, genres, ISRC code, web-links and segments provide music fans with access to a huge store of information on their favorite music.

For more information, visit www.gracenote.com

Apple II, Macintosh, iLife, iPod and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the US and other countries.