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# Bop.fm To Shuttter After Aquirehire By Lifelock
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/bopfm-to-shuttter-after-aquirehire-by-lifelock/
- Published: 2015-10-29T17:25:23.000Z
- Updated: 2015-10-29T17:25:23.000Z
- Description: Another innovative music startup is going offline. Bop.fm, a service agnostic music streamer, is shutting down as of Oct 31st. The startup has been aquirehired LifeLock, a provider of identity protection services. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/10/bopfm-to-shuttter-after-aqu
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Tech, Startups & Funding, Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:28

[![Bop.fm](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c7e4d50c970b-150wi "Bop.fm")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c7e4d50c970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Another innovative music startup is going offline. **Bop.fm**, a service agnostic music streamer, is **shutting down as of Oct 31st**. The startup has been aquirehired [LifeLock](https://www.lifelock.com/?ref=hypebot.com), a provider of identity protection services for consumers and consumer risk management services for enterprises.

[![Bop.fm](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb0888abc7970d-150wi "Bop.fm")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb0888abc7970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

The Bop.fm team will now "apply our consumer product DNA to help enhance the services that LifeLock delivers." The YCombinator backed startup had previously raised $2 million in two see rounds.

Bop.fm had aggregated music services invluding Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud and Deezer into a single interface. Users could search for a song, play it using any service, and share it with any friend even if they used a different service. bop.fm had powered service-agnostic music playback for Rap Genius, as well as other music bloggers and others.

"Building out a central destination for consumers can be very expensive and require hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, in an industry fraught with monetization concerns,: wrote the founders. "As we considered the future direction of the company, we debated the tradeoffs between doubling down on a risky endeavor versus aligning ourselves with more promising opportunities that had presented themselves."

Read more and learn how to export Bop.fm playlists [here](http://bop-static-site.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/?ref=hypebot.com).

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