Roxio To Offer Summer Consumer Promotion

Roxio teams with Intel on national promotion in Rolling Stone, Blender, Maxim, ESPN and Stuff magazines to offer consumers a chance to win sports and music prizes

Santa Clara, California - (August 5, 2002) - Roxio, Inc., (Nasdaq: ROXI) The Digital Media Company®, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world, announced today it has teamed with Intel Corporation to introduce its "Life is Good" summer promotion offering consumers a chance to win fun and valuable prizes including an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor-based desktop PC and Roxio's best-selling digital media software products Easy CD Creator, VideoWave and PhotoSuite. Grand prizes include any sporting event, anytime, anywhere of choice, or a rock-star style weekend in New York that includes tickets to the best parties and concerts in town.

"The 'Life is Good' promotion is an opportunity to introduce millions of consumers to Roxio's digital media software - the fun and easy way to manage their digital photos, videos and music," said Scott Steinberg, vice president strategic marketing at Roxio. "Working with Intel allows us to extend our marketing reach and educate consumers about the benefits of running digital media software on PCs powered with the Pentium 4 processor."

Consumers can enter The Roxio-Intel "Life is Good" sweepstakes now at www.roxiolifeisgood.com or www.maximonline.com/roxio/, and read about the promotion in print and online through leading lifestyle publications Rolling Stone, Blender, Maxim, ESPN and Stuff. Promotion ends September 10, 2002.

Safe Harbor Statement

The matters discussed relating to Roxio in this press release, in particular matters related to Roxio's OEM relationships, include forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including delays in product development, competition in the software industry, and failure to maintain OEM relationships, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Additional information on these and other factors are contained in Roxio's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the SEC on July 1, 2002 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the SEC on November 13, 2002, copies of which are available at the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Roxio assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release.

About Roxio

Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, develops and markets the best-selling digital media software in the world. Roxio offers award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing and has an installed base of over 150 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, through leading retailers, through Internet partnerships and through direct sales at www.roxio.com. Roxio's parent company, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com) is the leader in digital media software and provides a broad range of software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users and technology partners. Sonic's products range from professional DVD authoring systems and interactive content delivery technologies that are used to produce the majority of Hollywood movies released on DVD, to the award-winning Roxio- and Sonic-branded CD and DVD creation, playback and backup applications that have become the premiere solutions for consumers and business users worldwide. Sonic's AuthorScript® is the de facto standard for CD and DVD burning and formatting and has been licensed by major software and hardware manufacturers, including Adobe, Broadcom, Microsoft, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony, and many others. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.

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