Radio autoplay when playlists end

[sillyduffer]

For the past few days, whenever I get to the end of a playlist or album, instead of simply ending, it will begin playing a radio station based of the playlist I just listened to. Is this a glitch or a new feature, and either way how do I get it to stop? I make playlists in order to have a specific set of songs, the exact opposite reason one listens to radio, which is a random and new set of songs.

[bosi]

Update: To my horrow, this thing started to play radio on desktop as well...but there were light. Under advanced options, not the standard options page but under ADVANCED options, the now familiar "autoplay" switch has appeared, set to On... So, by turning this feature off on all my platforms, it finally went back to ordinary behaviour again, on all platforms. I have never been so close to terminate my spotify account.

Any comments from spotify? When can we have this multi-platform bug solved?

[Johanna9]

After my main playlists finished to play spotify now starts this awful radioplaylists "inspired" by the playlists in question. This music is terrible and if I wanted to listen to more music after it ended I would have pressed the "repeat" button. 

Does anyone know how I turn off this super annoying feature? 

[Bittencourt]

Hi @Johanna9,

On your phone only (these settings not available through desktop app) hit the Settings button (gear icon top right in the "Your Library" section of the andriod app) scroll down and under the Playback section. Where it says "Autoplay", slide the autoplay button to the off position.

Hope this helps 🙂

[iteraf]

It used to be the case that when an album or playlist finished, that would be it. Nothing would play afterwards. I liked this. It told me that the album I was listening to had finished. It certainly gave the final track of an album a sense of... oh what's the word... finality! And in the case of a long playlist, the end would tell me that I've exhausted my collection of (say) Motown and that it was high time I started listening to something a little more... up-to-date.

Now whenever an album or playlist finishes, I get a load of random songs playing that I may or (as is usually the case) may not want. I DON'T LIKE THIS!!! When a new album actually finishes, I do not want to be confused when the 3rd track starts playing again and get a weird sense of deja vu. I do not want to hear a whole bunch of related artists I probably don't like. When I'm making my tea and my blues playlist finishes, I do not want to be bombarded with over a dozen Eric Clapton songs (I really don't like Eric Clapton).

If I'm playing from a playlist or album, that is what I want Spotify to play. I want to be in control of the music I listen to. If I want suggestions from Spotify, I'll listen to the song radio, the playlist suggestions, Discover Weekly, etc... but that will be when I choose to do so.

Please tell me there is a way to turn this dreadful feature off. (FYI: I have Premium.)

[nb_wilson]

YES! This has been driving me insane. I want to listen to all songs by a SINGLE artist, not start a radio station, if I want that feature, I'll use it. PLEASE let me shuffle all songs by the SAME artist, not have to chose single albums or playlists (premium here as well, but possibly not much longer).

[bosi]

This appears to be a new feature that has been rolled out on all platforms. Go into advanced settings and turn off "autoplay". Do that on all your platforms if you have for example also an android phone spotify-connected.

[Johanna9]

Thank you:-)

[Bittencourt]

You're welcome @Johanna9!

[roosterette]

Thank you - that solved my problem as well. As of the latest update, swiping through search results would lead to Spotify Radio coming on - but not anymore!

[iteraf]

Thank you so much bosi! You have saved me a lot of grief!

[user-removed]

When playing a song, ANY song, - in playlists, from search, from saved songs and so on:
The next song will automatically be radio based on "insert previous song". So I can no longer listen to Spotify at ease but need to manually change to the next song (skip song also puts on the radio, so really - MANUALLY). I have a premium account (as far as I can see) and this is really bugging me since I spend avg. 2-3hrs every day using Spotify.
I have restarted the app/device

Using iPhone SE, iOS 10.0.02
Spotify version 7.6.0
Unwanted radio when:
Song ends, next song is "radio based on <previous song>" instead of next in line. (Even when repeat is on/off, shuffle on/off, track repeat on, another song is queued)
Occasionally putting on radio when selecting a song from search songs

[ErikG]

Hi.

Can you check if disabling AutoPlay in the settings inside the app solves your problem?

[user-removed]

Thanks m8!

What a, excuse the language, **bleep** function though. Can't a person listen to some music without being force fed the latest from john Meyer... ugh, but seriously. Thanks Erik

[nb_wilson]

Fixed, thanks Bosi!

[NoFunction]

After a recent update (I now have version 1.0.49.125.g72ee7853) Spotify suddenly started playing some random song after playing the last song in my queue which I was not happy about and then I discovered there was a new option in the settings called Autoplay and by default it was turned on (personally I don't think it's a nice idea when adding new features that affect playback of the queue to turn them on by default, but maybe that's just me). As I'm used to just playing my playlists and don't want Spotify to play anything else when my queue is empty I turned this new feature off but as soon as my next queue was empty it switched to a random new song and my queue got filled with songs I don't want to listen to so it looks like turning the Autoplay feature off does not work.

Please fix this or direct me to a previous version of Spotify without this feature that I can downgrade to until this is fixed.

Update: Spotify suddenly stopped doing this 🙂 It happened after I viewed a single with a single song and hit play on it, after it was over nothing else happened just as I wanted and now only playing my playlists works.

[killsle]

I had this same issue a couple weeks ago.  I was able to solve it by turning my account into offline mode, and saving the playlists that I wanted offline (I have premium).  Then I also made sure my 'repeat' setting was on 'repeat all', and I haven't had the issue again.

[phil19701]

thanks. one weird thing tho - the autoplay function appears on my ipod but not my iphone?? have updated and redownloaded but it still doesnt appear?

[user-removed]

Thank you! I reinstalled and all of a sudden it was doing this - I looked all over the settings on the computer, where (naturally) this option isn't anywhere to be found. 

In the app it's:

Library -> Settings (top right corner) -> Playback -> Autoplay (disable, last option)

(in case anyone had trouble finding it)

[smc28]

hi, im a premium user for quite some years. but i found out lately that if im listning to some albums that after a album is done it automaticly search for other artists or songs that are simulair to the album i selected. it starts to anoying me. even if i select a band and choose for "all songs" i get songs from a way different artist.

is there any option wich i can switch off??? its bull**bleep** that spotify choose what i want to hear.

[Hubo]

Hey @smc28! Welcome to the community!

It sounds like AutoPlay is turned on on your device. You can turn it off by heading to: 'Settings (Spotify) > Playback > AutoPlay.' Let me know if you can find it.

Take care! 🙂