Upcoming Autonomic Software Update Includes Support for Murfie Streaming

Autonomic announced its upcoming 5.2 software release, which adds performance boosts and support for streaming service Murfie. Murfie customers can send their CDs and LPs to the company’s headquarters, where they're digitized and stored in the cloud for playback on music players. CDs are ripped to native 16-bit/44 kHz resolution, while Murfie rips vinyl recordings to 24-bit/192 free lossless audio codec (FLAC) that can either be streamed from the cloud or downloaded and added to a user’s personal music collection, it said. Consumers who activate a new Murfie account through an Autonomic dealer are eligible for a free year of Murfie HiFi, which includes lossless and high-res streaming, a $99 value, said Autonomic. Autonomic’s Mirage music players give users access to Murfie’s online marketplace of over 160,000 CDs that they can buy and download in MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless or advanced audio coding formats, it said.