Murfie says "kind of like eBay or swap.com, combined with iTunes or an Amazon music locker," co-founder Preston Austin.
Murfie says "kind of like eBay or swap.com, combined with iTunes or an Amazon music locker," co-founder Preston Austin.
Carter Hooper had a problem. The 51 year-old from New Orleans for many years had to lug around his collection of 900 CDs.
"These things Katrina, survive", he says. "I was in Katrina;" "I was there that almost in Biloxi, Miss., in a building, and got way, but I had stacked these treasures in the cupboard."
Hooper discovered then, Murfie, a company based in Madison, Wisconsin, where he ship all his CDs free of charge and could retain possession of them.
Murfie is far too many people. Hooper, it was a dream come true: Murfie burn your old CDs into a digital file, prepare the cases and sell even the album on the Internet. It is a part of flea market, part of iTunes.
Murfie digitized Hooper of the entire collection, and now he can access all his CDs online through Murfie website.
Members can have the site your own personal store where they sell or trade albums from their collections. Murfie takes a 30-percent cut from a sale, but stores are free of charge. Hooper says that he has been charged already around $50.
Co-founders Preston Austin admits that it not easy to describe Murfie.
""It's like,"it's a bit like eBay or Swap.com in conjunction with iTunes or an Amazon music locker", ", he says."
But in contrast to iTunes, Murfie in real, physical CDs. They just never see them. Tens of thousands of CDs ordered their camp houses for easy access.
Despite this large numbers, the camp is actually less than the most living room. It is the central space in Murfie of the Office suite on the eighth floor of a downtown bank building. There are two silver utility shelves in the camp. Each is packed like shoe boxes from top to bottom with hundreds of white open-top boxes. Within each field, there are dozens of CDs and their jackets, barcode and nested in simple white envelopes.
The plastic cases are nowhere to be seen. This is because they are valuable. Murfie, recycled it $1,500 a ton and Austin makes, that they be reused 100 tonne cases next year.
All of these CDs come from members such as Hooper. Some use to sell Murfie or trade their CD collections. Others have Murfie who download their music, rip, the cost of a dollar per album. And some are just store their CD collections for $12 per year.
"In the background we all this, the type of move property have in our warehouse", says co-founder Matt Younkle Murfie. "Everything comes back to real, physical property." We make it really easy to get the property without a box of slices in your wardrobe. "They put it in Murfie the camp place."
According to the CD recycling center of America to fight a lot of people with CDs. Hot about 100,000 pounds of discs that are obsolete, and get every year threw millions each month. Austin estimates in the United States alone there are approximately 15 billion used CDs just sitting around in cellars and bargain campsites.
But no longer in Hoopers basement. He was one of the first customers of the Murfie and says that he is now linked to the convenience.
"It's like an old-school record store, you know, digitized," says Hooper. "It is only an idea that face us." And it is perfect for me. "It is exactly as I wanted to separate me from my CDs."
Digital record store, online CD library, remote garage may be difficult to define sale - Murfie, but that won't stop it is enlarged. Rather, it only accepts now CDs could, but it soon vinyl. And Murfie hopes to one day branch out books, comics, magazines, and the one-stop-shop for your online media library.
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Murfie is part of eBay, part of iTunes, the company said.
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