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several music services are starting to spin some new beats I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update as the year wraps up several changes are coming to your favorite streaming music services for starters Pandora and other internet radio broadcasters but then I have to pay 20% more in royalties to the music copyright holders and artists but it's not a huge price hike it's really just point zero zero one seven cents per song streamed and it currently pays point zero zero one four cents a song now one of the issues with streaming online is that services like Pandora have to pay out more royalties than a traditional radio station Pandora CEO says the company can work with the new rates and the free service is making some other changes too just recently it launched a station called thumbprint radio where it takes everything you've ever liked with a thumbs up and mashes it all into one playlist it also adds some new music based on the tunes you liked this is similar to something our do used to have but last month pandora bought up some of the assets of our do for seventy five million dollars and our do is shutting down next week on Tuesday December 22nd but if your Spotify user there is a tool that can import your RDO playlist to Spotify now Spotify is also adding some new features to stay fresh apps for iPhone and Android now have a feature called Spotify party which serves up a mix of music for a party and you can adjust the mood based on the type of party you're having these playlists are made by so called music experts and you can find this in the genres ammu's area in the Browse section of course you could have made your own party playlist before but now Spotify is helping you make one it's a way to compete with other services that have preset party playlists and this was the key focus around the free service Songza which created specialized playlists based on moods or activities Songza was purchased by Google and it's now shutting down at the end of January but every single playlist will still live on inside Google Play Music and yes you can still stream for free that's it for the second is update and there's always more as seen accom from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey