FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- CULVER CITY, CA, January 26, 2000 -- 4Front Technologies and the X MultiMedia System team are happy to announce the results of the XMMS plugin competition. The winners are: First place: Mr. Kristoffer Brånemyr (XMMS Speakers 2.0) Second place: Mr. Christopher Wilson (Jakdaw's XMMS Plugin 0.0.2) Third place: Mr. Tim Ferguson (Kint XMMS 0.93) The final results are: Plugin Name Votes ------------------------------------------- 1. XMMS Speakers 2.0 16.61 % 2. Jakdaw's XMMS Plugin 0.0.2 15.49 % 3. Kint XMMS 0.93 8.31 % 4. wmDiscoTux 1.2 7.63 % 4. Blur Scope Max 1.1.1 7.63 % 6. Blursk 1.1 6.51 % 7. VQF Plugin 0.3 5.27 % 8. DBMix 0.9.3 Beta 3.93 % 9. Synaesthesia XMMS 0.0.1 3.59 % 10. XMMS LCD 0.2 2.81 % 11. Lyrics displayer 2.69 % 12. Geekosphere 0.7 2.58 % 13. Waterfall 0.9 2.13 % 14. SID plugin 1.0pre 2.13 % 15. MP3 reencode plugin 1.91 % 16. MSA spectrum analyzer v0.5.2 1.68 % 17. XPLSISNJASP 0.6 1.57 % 18. SGI Output Plugin 1.35 % 19. OpenGL Beizer Plugin 1.23 % 20. Bump Scope 0.0.2 1.12 % 21. AAC plugin 1.0 1.12 % 22. Rainbow v1.1 0.67 % 23. Sox Effect 0.0.1 0.45 % 24. Nurbies v1.1 0.45 % 25. Irix Output 0.0.1 0.34 % 26. Dual Spectrogram 1.0.1 0.34 % 27. Dual Spectral 1.0.1 0.22 % 28. Dual Scope 1.0 0.11 % 29. Dual Flowers 1.0 0.11 % Winners have been notified and prizes are on the way. "We also want to thank all the other developers who entered the competition and everybody who voted and made this competition a smashing success. This competition is yet another testament to the power of Open Source and frankly we are thrilled with the growing userbase of XMMS", said Dev Mazumdar, president of 4Front Technologies. All the plugins are available for download at http://www.xmms.org/plugins.html. ABOUT 4FRONT TECHNOLOGIES: 4Front 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. Open Sound System has become the "de-facto" audio API that is now distributed with Linux and FreeBSD kernel sources and licensed by companies like SCO, Wind River Systems and endorsed by SUN Microsystems. Open Sound System provides a cross-platform audio API with device drivers for over 250 brand name sound cards from vendors like Creative Labs, Yamaha, Crystal Semiconductor Aureal, ESS Technologies and others. More information on Open Sound System and 4Front Technologies is available at http://www.opensound.com ABOUT X MultiMedia System: The X MultiMedia System (XMMS) project is developed under the GNU Public License (GPL) and is sponsored by 4Front Technologies. XMMS is a cross platform multimedia player that support MP3, Wave, CD, 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. More information on XMMS is available at http://www.xmms.org. --XX-- Copyright 2000, 4Front Technologies. All rights reserved. Open Sound System is a trade mark of 4Front Technologies XMMS and X MultiMedia System is a trade mark of 4Front Technologies Linux is a registered trade mark of Linus Torvalds UNIX is a registered trade mark of X/Open Company Ltd. All other trade marks that appear in this document are acknowledged and owned by their respective owners.