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Culver City, CA - November 25, 2003- 4Front Technologies, a leading developer of digital and analog audio solutions for the Linux and UNIX Operating System platforms, announced today the release of OSS/3D v7.0 plugin for Microsofts's Windows Media Player v9 and AOL's Winamp v2 and v3, Sonique, and MusicMatch.

 OSS/3D comprises of a set of proprietary 3D audio algorithms that provide audio spatialization, depth perception, bass boost, fidelity enhancement, reverb, equalization and speaker /headphone correction. OSS/3D works with standard 2-speaker based soundcards.

 The new features include: 

• 10 band equalizer

• Reverb control

• Extended fidelity control

• DirectX plugin support

• Enhancements to existing features

 In addition, 4Front Technologies is also announcing our new multi-channel audio related technologies for DVD and surround sound systems:

• 4Front TheatreFX - allows you to recreate 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1 virtual   speakers when playing back DVD audio/video via any standard 2 speaker   soundcard.
  

• 4Front Surroundizer - converts standard 2 channel audio into 5.1, 6.1     and 7.1 channel audio for playback on multi speaker/multichannel   capable soundcards. Surroundizer will remodel the stereo sound in a            multichannel format with a perception of DVD like surround quality.

  The 4Front Equalizer has been licensed by AOL's Winamp division that now uses this technology as the standard equalizer in Winamp 2.9.

 The OSS/3D set of technologies is also available to personal audio and audio appliance manufacturers who wish to provide more feature rich audio products and provide a product differentiation in a market that is mostly saturated with standard stereo audio output. Contact 4Front Technologies for support for specific processor chips and embedded operating systems.  

 More information on the OSS/3D is available at http://www.oss3d.com A free trial demo version can be also downloaded from this site.

About 4Front Technologies

4Front Technologies is a privately held company with development facilities in California, Finland and Sweden.  4Front's main focus is on developing audio solutions for the UNIX and embedded Systems marketplace. 4Front's Open Sound System has become the "de-facto" audio API for UNIX and is distributed with Linux and FreeBSD kernel sources under the GNU Public License (GPL). Open Sound System has been licensed by companies like SCO, Hewlett Packard, Wind River. Additional information on Open Sound System is available at http://www.opensound.com

 The X Multimedia System (XMMS) project is developed under the GNU Public License (GPL) by 4Front Technologies. XMMS is a cross platform multimedia player that supports MP3, Wave, MPEG1 Video, VideoCD, Amiga MOD, MIDI, and other digital audio and video formats. It also provides MP3 streaming playback support over the Internet and provides visual graphics synchronized to sound output. It also provides complete control over GUI layout and design. XMMS has received many prestigious awards as the most popular media application on Linux from Linux Journal, Linux Magazine and SlashDot.Org. More information on XMMS is available at http://www.xmms.org

Notices:

 OSS/3D is a trademark of 4Front Technologies. All copyrights mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Copyright © 2000-2003, 4Front Technologies --

 4Front Technologies
4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F, 
Culver City, CA 90232, USA. 
Tel: (310) 202 8530 
URL: www.opensound.com 
Fax: (310) 202 0496 
Email: info@opensound.com -

Source: 4Front