Murfie
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Murfie is a commercial music streaming service originally based in Madison, Wisconsin. Murfie members buy, sell, and trade compact discs and stream or download their contents.[1] Additionally, members can digitize and store CDs and LPs they sent from home to Murfie.[2]
Murfie was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Time magazine, and National Public Radio.[3]
In 2012, Murfie became a member of Techstars.[4] In 2014, Murfie announced they had lossless FLAC streaming available on Sonos devices.[5] In November 2019, Murfie ceased operations,[6] until January 2020 when the site's assets were acquired by Crossies LLC. John Fenley is the owner of both Murfie and Crossies.[7]
When Murfie was shut down, disks were not returned. After accusation, Crossies committed to the project of returning collections to those who had entrusted the Madison company with their music.[8] An LLC set up after Murfie dissolved has been trying to return discs to customers. About 150,000 discs have been requested from a warehouse that is holding around 750,000, according to an email update from Murfie Customer Returns Service LLC, an independent organization set up to help customers get their music back.
References[edit]
- ^ "Wis. Business Hopes To Help Break The CD Habit". NPR.org. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ^ "Murfie Music | Buy, Sell, Download CDs". www.murfie.com. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
- ^ "Feel your music". murfie.com. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
- ^ "An unusual TechStar: Murfie seeks to build huge CD store". Retrieved 2014-02-21.
- ^ Liederbach, Kayla (Feb 27, 2014). "Lossless streaming on Sonos, worldwide!". Retrieved Nov 19, 2020.
- ^ "A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people's CDs, then suddenly vanished". 13 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ^ Hauer, Sarah. "Defunct music storage service Murfie's assets acquired by another company". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved Nov 19, 2020.
- ^ "Defunct music storage service Murfie's assets acquired by another company". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved Nov 19, 2020.