Murfie

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Murfie was a commercial music streaming service based initially in Madison, Wisconsin. Its members buy, sell, and trade compact discs and stream or download their content. [1] Additionally, members could digitize and store CDs and LPs they sent from home to Murfie. [2]

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Murfie was featured in The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times , Fast Company , Time magazine, and National Public Radio.

History

Preston Austin and Matt Younkle co-founded the company. [2] Younkle left in 2015 and Rex Mangat, company CEO, departed in September 2019, shortly before the company ceased operations. [2]

In 2012, Murfie became a member of Techstars. [3] In 2014, the company announced they had lossless FLAC streaming available on Sonos devices. [4] In November 2019, it ceased operations [2] until January 2020, when Crossies LLC acquired the site's assets. John Fenley is the owner of both Murfie and Crossies. [5]

When Murfie shut down, disks were not returned to customers, and Crossies committed to returning collections to those who had entrusted the Madison company with their music. [5] Of the 750,000 discs held by Crossies, requests were received for only about 150,000. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Wis. Business Hopes To Help Break The CD Habit". NPR.org. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people's CDs, then suddenly vanished". 13 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  3. ↑ "An unusual TechStar: Murfie seeks to build huge CD store" . Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  4. ↑ Liederbach, Kayla (Feb 27, 2014). "Lossless streaming on Sonos, worldwide!" . Retrieved Nov 19, 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Hauer, Sarah. "Defunct music storage service Murfie's assets acquired by another company". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved Nov 19, 2020.
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