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Liquid Audio

Defunct American digital media and audio software company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Liquid Audio Inc was a US software company based in Redwood City, California.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Liquid Audio” as defunct American digital media and audio software company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Liquid, Audio and Defunct.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 13-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Liquid, Audio and Defunct providing the first useful test.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Liquid Audio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.