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Deadpool Date3/09
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General Information
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Websitespiralfrog.com
Blogspiralfrogblog.com
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Phone718-839-0941
Employees15
Founded2004

Offices
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New York, USA
95 Morton Street
Ground Floor
New York, NY, 10014
USA
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Mel Schrieberg
CEO
Vesa Suomalainen
CTO
James Campbell
CIO
Antero Koskinen
Lead Engineer
Joe Mohan
Chairman and Founder

Funding
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Total$12M
Series A
$10M
Debt, 12/07
$2M

Competitors
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Ruckus, BrightSpot.tv, MOG, we7, Imeem

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zucchero, music, free

SpiralFrog entered The Deadpool on March 20, 2009

SpiralFrog
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SpiralFrog, formely Musicloads and Mohen, was an advertising-supported online music service offering free and legal music and video downloads.

People used to be able to sign up for free, obtain a download manager, and then have unlimited access to download songs with Microsoft Digital Rights Management (DRM). With Microsoft DRM, the downloaded music loses portability as it cannot be transferred to many other popular devices (like iPods, etc.), can only be used on Windows Machines, and requires Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher to play.

SpiralFrog only gives you “ownership” over songs for 30 day lease periods. However you can easily retain ownership of your songs by renewing your membership each month and answering survey questions. With over 3 million songs, SpiralFrog currently has music licensing partnerhips with Universal and several independent labels. With its offering of free music downloads, SpiralFrog has joined other free music companies like Ruckus in this space.

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Comments

Tich - June 24, 2009 at 5:29pm
I really miss Spiralfrog. I hope they'll come back soon. I miss downloading music from them. COME BACK SOON!
Carlos - May 12, 2009 at 2:40pm
Man this sucks like a b#!~! just when I was enjoying some great music this happens.Me servce went up yesterday and 90% on my mp3 is from spiralfrog.Oh well that was the best free music servce ever,the economy is tuff and everybodys feeling the hurt but I didn't think it would be this.
Jakes - May 5, 2009 at 10:00am
Yikes! Not only can I not now play the music I downloaded from Spiral Frog, it has also frozen some of the music in my library I put in the computer from my own discs -- beware!
Ricky R. - May 1, 2009 at 9:24am
Spiralfrog was the best free music site by far...all the music on my mp3 player from there..they had a great variety..now the subscription on my music is up and i cant download ne more music to renew it...i hope they come back!!
D D Beasley Jr - April 19, 2009 at 11:01am
Just when you think a good service is there, it's not. Too bad about Spiralfrog. I hope it does comeback but with the way the music industry is protecting their rights(not to say they don't have the right to because they do)can't blame them for that but too bad there isn't enough funds to continue. RIP Spiralfrog, hope you are revived soon
Allison K. - April 14, 2009 at 7:44pm
One of the best and you could preview every song before downloading. Hope they come back.
e.g.ted francis - April 10, 2009 at 10:07pm
i can only hope thjat spiralfrog get up online again. i really enjoyed their catalogue of free music, it was great.
wolfgang wiebeck - April 10, 2009 at 9:43pm
I Love old time jazz music and downloaded some 1700 clips from SpiralFrog with no problem.With some effort I syncronized all into an MP 3 player to enjoy in my car and boat.With all the talent out there somebody should figure out a way to unlock what I have, I would consider to pay for that.
jt - April 10, 2009 at 7:32pm
i really enjoyed this site. i thought it was the best for variety. I don't know where I'm going to find a music library (free) comparable to spiralfrog. R.I.P.
Jim McCarthy <cityfolkie@yahoo.com> - April 8, 2009 at 9:12pm
I have been (was?) a SpiralFrog member for quite a while, and happily downloaded many albums from them, and enjoyed them immensely. However, for reasons unknown to me, I now have a runtime glitch in my computer, and following their instructions, reinstalled my Media Player (a few times!). I still have the glitch, and cannot retrieve the playback rights to any of their music. I wrote to them, but got no reply. They say that in cases like mine, they will restore those rights, but have not done so!
Steve Lusso - January 25, 2008 at 8:20pm
I have to say, I love SprialFrog. I have made the rounds testing the top digital sites and believe this one to be the cleanest and easiest. It has even lured me away from my iPod and I don't miss a thing. I look forward to seeing them develop.

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