Murfie was a commercial music streaming service based initially in

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. Its members buy, sell, and trade

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s and stream or download their content. Additionally, members could digitize and store

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and LPs they sent from home to Murfie. Murfie was featured in ''

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History

Preston Austin and Matt Younkle co-founded the company. Younkle left in 2015 and Rex Mangat, company CEO, departed in September 2019, shortly before the company ceased operations. In 2012, Murfie became a member of Techstars. In 2014, the company announced they had lossless

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streaming available on

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devices. In November 2019, it ceased operations until January 2020, when Crossies LLC acquired the site's assets. John Fenley is the owner of both Murfie and Crossies. 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. Of the 750,000 discs held by Crossies, requests were received for only about 150,000.

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* {{Music digital distribution platforms Companies based in Madison, Wisconsin Companies based in Arkansas Music streaming services 2019 disestablishments in Arkansas American companies disestablished in 2019