Deliver the flexibility consumers need without rendering the right for protection of your intellectual property. key2audioXS respects the rights and demands of everyone involved, no matter if you are a label, artist or consumer.
As a leading CD-Audio copy control system, key2audioXS offers the optimal balance between playability and security, letting you achieve both goals without restrictions. Labels have the protection which ensures that their intellectual property is safe and that their business isn't threatened.
key2audioXS is the publisher's way of saying 'no' to casual consumer copying. But key2audioXS is also the label's way of respecting the consumers' right to private back-up copies and the right to listening to their music on the device of choice, no matter if it's their audio CD player, PC or portable player.
key2audioXS is the Audio-CD copy control solution with best compatibility reported by market and independent test labs. This copy control solution not only works on every currently available audio device but also guarantees an unlimited high-quality listening experience.
For any production of 300 audio cd's or more, key2audio is the best solution.


Balance protection and consumer rights and turn everyone into a winner.

Full compatibility
Multi-level protection
Exportability & legitimate private copy
Value-adding features for consumers

Legitimize & control private copies
It's about protecting your profit and intellectual property, plus granting consumers their right to a seamless listening experience. This solution allows consumers a limited amount of private copies. As a label you can individually define the burn count. These copies are then also fully protected and offer the same leading efficiency and compatibility as the original disc.

Features

• Easy and safe track conversion
  Encoding of the audio session to Windows Media DRM-protected files becomes easy and safe, ensuring that portable devices are supported and online distribution prevented.
• You've-got-music - Send a track to a friend With key2audioXS consumers can now pick and send audio tracks via email. With a label defined usability period, friends can enjoy and share their favourites, facilitating promotion activities for labels.
• n-CD - Add value to a disc
  When you choose to combine key2audioXS with n-CD you give your customers more. n-CD is your customer's ticket to the exclusive n-CD community with access to bonus features and benefits. Experience n-CD: That's bonus tracks and videos, ringtones, lotteries, discounts and much more. The original n-CD is a unique key reserved for just their owners.
• Extended audio playtime
  key2audioXS has been developed to offer music labels the convenience of extended playtime. Today, the audio part can hold up to 75 minutes, leaving space for additional audio tracks.
• Customized look and feel
  The key2audioXS user interface on PC allows for convenient navigation in a consistent design. This ready-to-use package includes a copying and burning tool, as well as additional content such as bonus pictures and lyrics.
• Online customer care
  User questions and concerns are handled directly by a dedicated key2audioXS support team, saving labels time and money.
• Easiest implementation at any replication site:
  key2audioXS can be licensed by any replication site for maximum convenience. To ensure an efficient and easy workflow our technical support is ready to answer your questions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Compatibility

Key2audioXS discs maintain compatibility with virtually every music player on the market. Whether they're played on CD-Audio players, DVD-Video players, car stereo systems, portable players, PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles, SACD players or PCs, key2audioXS-protected discs play trouble-free. Upgraded versions of key2audioXS will be continuously released.

Extraordinary key2audioXS benefits bring value to your CD

1. Market-leading playability on CD/DVD players and PC devices
   Play the key2audioXS protected disc on virtually any PC, player or portable devices - with 100% playability the sound resolution is flawless and of high-quality.
2. Efficient in combating copying and ripping attempts
   key2audioXS is a comprehensive and sophisticated package with effective active copy control capabilities protecting against the threats of unauthorized copying and ripping, as well as any circumvention effort. key2audioXS active copy control puts a stop to all currently known ripping tools.
3. Maximum flexibility
   key2audioXS offers greatest flexibility by being adaptable to different legal requirements and label preferences, such as export of tracks and options for legitimate burning of private copies.
4. Value-adding features for consumers
   key2audioXS allows for downloading or streaming of bonus content via a premium Web site which is only accessible with the original disc, giving consumers the extra which an unauthorized copy can't.

Fantastic extra optional Multimedia Features!

Secure Web Link

Grant your customers exclusive access to protected Web content - all they need is one of your original discs. Secure Web Link does not require passwords or certificates. Provide restricted access to downloadable music files or software updates, access to support areas, special merchandising offers like concert tickets or posters, etc..
How does it work?
When the key2audioXS disc is inserted into the drive, an authentication process verifies the disc. If the disc is an original, it can be played back on PC and allows the user to access CD-Extra content and/or a Web link. The Web link connects the user directly to a dedicated Web area (e.g. the artist's or publisher's site) where the value-added bonus material of the corresponding disc is available for tethered download or streaming.
key2audioXS prevents unauthorized usage, copying and distribution of online files, so only customers who have purchased an original key2audioXS disc have access to your bonus content.

n-CD - makes each disc unique!

This exclusive concept allows the placement of premium content on top of a conventional music CD granting only owners of an original access to the bonuses via Internet. The n-CD is a unique direct marketing tool with one-to-one marketing opportunities for music labels and exclusive cash-value features for their consumers. Modern disc identification technology ensures that these premium features are exclusively reserved for only one user of an original disc.

n-CD pairs disc content with a secure web link, which is solely accessible via a unique identification number inscribed on the disc. The technology ensuring that only owners of an original disc can access the bonus area is called Postscribed ID. This disc identification method connects the disc with the secure web link. Business can use the data as a basis for upcoming offers and to tailor marketing offers to the customer. With the n-CD one-to-one marketing and customer relationship management is now becoming reality for the entertainment and information business

We offer the n-CD in several combinations. The n-CD can consist of an audio or ROM session and allows the combination of both. Additional add-ons are copy control solutions. key2audioXS copy control is designed specifically for the audio session and SecuROM offers leading protection against illegal copying of the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM session. The technology behind this exclusivity concept is Postscribed ID allowing the automated inscription of unique data on each disc after the discs have been manufactured. This procedure is integrated in the mass production process and the code is readable by any CD drive.