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Loudeye Chosen as Digital Media Provider for Qpass' Mobile Ecosystem SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Loudeye Corp. (NASDAQ:LOUD), a worldwide leader in business-to-business digital media solutions, today announced at CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment 2005 in San Francisco that it is teaming with Qpass as a value added service provider for delivering mobile digital media solutions. Loudeye will join other Qpass affiliates as part of an ecosystem focused on bringing together complementary companies and technologies in the mobile industry. As a result of this collaboration, Qpass will promote Loudeye's mobile digital media platform to prospective partners while Loudeye will offer Qpass' software and services as an option for its mobile media customers. "Loudeye has continued to push the boundaries of innovation in the mobile media space and we look forward to having them join our ecosystem as a value added service provider," said Eric Harber, vice president, corporate and business development at Qpass. "The synergies between our two platforms and shared desire to launch new innovative mobile media services, makes this an important relationship for our ecosystem and our partners as they explore launching mobile media services." "The mobile media space is developing rapidly as more companies realize the opportunities created by delivering rich media to the handset," said Linda Young, Loudeye's senior vice president of sales, marketing and business development. "Teaming with Qpass demonstrates our commitment to making a wide range of technologies and services available for our customers so they can maximize the effectiveness of their mobile media offerings." About Qpass Ringtones, mobile games and wallpaper images are only the forefront of a growing wave of digital media products and services for consumers, expanding in tandem with new services for the mobile enterprise. Qpass software and services are the critical infrastructure required to operate premium services businesses profitably, with the agility required to fully capture new opportunities, and with the sound business controls and processes required to scale operations efficiently. As the most broadly deployed foundation for mobile and fixed-network commerce, Qpass serves 150 million mobile subscribers and over 60 million web portal, WiFi and VOIP users worldwide. Qpass processes tens of millions of premium services transactions per month and has processed more than 300 million transactions since inception, representing over US$720 million in gross retail consumer sales. Qpass customers include Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile International, Vodafone, Sprint, ALLTEL, US Cellular and One. Qpass is privately held and has headquarters in Seattle, Washington and Vienna, Austria. For more information, visit http://www.qpass.com/. About Loudeye Corp. Loudeye is a 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 digital music archive, a broad catalog of licensed digital music 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/. Forward Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements in this release 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; 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/. These are among the primary risks we foresee at the present time. Loudeye assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: Loudeye Corp. CONTACT: investors, Michael Dougherty of Loudeye, +1-206-832-4000, or ; or media, U.S., Karen DeMarco of mPRm Public Relations, +1-323-933-3399, or ; or Europe, Chris Owen of Trimedia Communications UK, +44-0-207-471-6851 or +44-0-7787-122-800, or , both for Loudeye; or Jackie Wood of Qpass Inc., +1-206-695-9542, or ; or Beth Mayer of Text 100, +1-206-267-2023, or , for Qpass Web site: http://www.qpass.com/ Web site: http://www.loudeye.com/

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