Murfie
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Murfieis a commercial music streaming service originally based inMadison, Wisconsin.Its members buy, sell, and tradecompact discsand stream or download their contents.[1]Additionally, members can digitize and storeCDsandLPsthey sent from home to Murfie.[2]
Murfie was featured inThe Wall Street Journal,The New York Times,Fast Company,Timemagazine,andNational Public Radio.[3]
In 2012, Murfie became a member ofTechstars.[4]In 2014, the company announced they had losslessFLACstreaming available onSonosdevices.[5]In November 2019, it 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 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.Retrieved2014-01-25.
- ^"Murfie Music | Buy, Sell, Download CDs".murfie.Retrieved2015-09-16.
- ^"Feel your music".murfie.Retrieved13 September2023.
- ^"An unusual TechStar: Murfie seeks to build huge CD store".Retrieved2014-02-21.
- ^Liederbach, Kayla (Feb 27, 2014)."Lossless streaming on Sonos, worldwide!".RetrievedNov 19,2020.
- ^"A small Wisconsin company stored thousands of people's CDs, then suddenly vanished".13 December 2019.Retrieved2020-12-29.
- ^Hauer, Sarah."Defunct music storage service Murfie's assets acquired by another company".Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.RetrievedNov 19,2020.
- ^"Defunct music storage service Murfie's assets acquired by another company".Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.RetrievedNov 19,2020.