TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Limelight Networks, a leading content delivery network for digital media, today announced that music-on- demand pioneer Mix & Burn has selected Limelight as the content delivery platform for its innovative Music Tablet(TM) kiosks which allow consumers in retail stores to download digital songs on demand and create customized audio CDs on the spot.
Limelight Networks provides the high-capacity infrastructure for delivering hundreds of millions of music selections every day to Music Tablet CD creation stations, enabling consumers to tap a virtually unlimited inventory of music to build their own "greatest hits" collections, themed music discs, or any other combination of songs they wish. To ensure the widest possible selection, Mix & Burn has contracted with all five major music industry labels -- Universal, BMG, Warner, EMI and Sony -- and is working with important indie labels to expand its digital catalog in the coming months. Mix & Burn will also soon provide content downloads through its kiosks to the host of rapidly emerging portable digital devices, including cell phones and video players.
"We chose Limelight Networks as our content delivery provider because of their network's unmatched scalability, which enables us to make our entire catalog of over a million music tracks -- and counting -- available for immediate on-demand delivery at broadband speeds," said Bob French, president and COO of Mix & Burn. "Limelight's high-capacity, high-performance network is critical in enabling us to execute on our core business model -- the delivery of uncompressed CD-quality music and other digital content to retailers, where consumers can preview content, make their selections, and create and buy a legal, licensed custom CD compilation instantly, on-site."
"Mix & Burn's innovative music delivery technology marks a new direction in services targeted to the vast and growing base of consumers embracing the 'digital lifestyle,' said Lou Greco, vice president of sales for Limelight Networks. "Limelight's proven reliability and scalability enable retailers to leverage Mix & Burn's kiosks to meet the high expectations of these enthusiastic music customers."
About Mix & Burn
Mix & Burn is a leader in the music on-demand industry, as the first company to offer the complete digital catalogs of all major record labels for CD burning in retail stores. Mix & Burn's kiosks provide a simple touch screen interface that makes it fun and easy for retailers' customers to discover new music, burn albums not in stock, and create personalized compilations on CDs and portable digital devices. Mix & Burn's "virtual inventory" means there are essentially no limits to the quantity of music titles or other digital content available to any customer. For more on how Mix & Burn enables retailers to transform music buying from commodity shopping into an instant entertainment experience, visit http://www.mixandburn.com/.
About Limelight Networks
Limelight Networks is a high performance content delivery network for digital media, providing massively scalable, global delivery solutions for on- demand and live Internet distribution of video, music, games and downloads. Limelight Networks' infrastructure is optimized for the large object sizes, large content libraries, and large audiences associated with compelling rich media content. Limelight is the content delivery network of choice for more than 700 of the world's top media companies, including Akimbo, Amazon Unbox(TM), Belo Interactive, Brightcove, "BuyMusic" @ Buy.com, DreamWorks, LLC, Facebook, FOXNews.com, IFILM, ITV Play, Marimba, MSNBC.com, MySpace, NC Interactive, Radio Free Virgin, Valve Software and Xbox Live. For more information, visit http://www.llnw.com/.
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