Simfy Music was a music subscription service available in

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, and Switzerland, It was available as a website and also had clients for iPhone,

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, and

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which can play streaming music or cache songs for offline playback. The web-based service also offered a cross-platform client based on

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. Its library had content from the four

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, as well as the

Merlin Network Merlin is a digital rights music licensing partner for independent record labels, distributors, and other music rights holders around the world. It was founded in 2007 with Charles Caldas as the chief executive. In January 2020, Jeremy Sirota ste ...

and aggregators such as

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, and Finetunes. Simfy also offered social networking, allowing users to share playlists and follow others to see what music they listen to. In June 2014, MTN partnered with Simfy for streaming music On 1 May 2015, Simfy changed its music catalog. The official website now only shows a message, that Simfy continues to only offer a "limited number of songs" and redirects all users to

Deezer Deezer is a French online music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels, as well as podcasts on various devices online or offline. Created in Paris, Deezer currently has 90 million licensed tracks in i ...

. According to

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, the company is in liquidation since April 2015. Simfy Africa continued to operate and was brought by

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in 2018.

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References

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