Clearing Play Queue

[Hogg]

I'm sure this topic has been covered dozens of times by now but it seems like there's new behavior now.  It was annoying as hell that you couldn't remove songs from the queue if you hadn't technically "queued" them to begin with.  Now, even when you finish listening to an album or any selection you play without queueing, it re-lists all the tracks from the album back in the queue!  What the hell is going on?  This basically means I can never empty my queue the way it is right now.  Am I missing something here?   

[Horsechronic]

There are plenty of workarounds yes, thank you for one more.

The idea though, would be to get Spotify to add it as a feature at LEAST or, make the queue more Grooveshark-like in usability. Whatever "solutions" have been brought to this problem so far are convoluted ways of getting past a design problem.

The remove from queue or clear queue posts have tens of thousands of views, I consider that a design problem.

[andrewwmoritz]

For anyone who has been having trouble clearing the songs in the new version of spotify (released March 2015) because the "deleting playlist method" no longer works, try this:

1. Find an album whose last track is unplayable (I used the soundtrack to the film "Wish I Was Here")

2. Double click the last song to play it (in this case, it would be "No One to Let You Down" by The Head and the Heart)

3. The song will be unable to play

4. Restart Spotify

5. Your queue should now be empty

[kaylesx]

That still didn't work for me. (I used the same album and everything.)

[reih]

It worked for me. But the only thing I did different was that I copied the unplayable track to an empty playlist. Call the empty play list "clear" 🙂 When I press play on the clear playlist AND quit spotify and after that restart spotify (without logging in and out) the queue is empty.

[juncles]

Go onto your queue, press ctrl + A then backspace. It deletes it all!

[osopher]

@juncles

That doesn't work for me.  Never has done but wondered if it had been introduced as a new feature so updated to 1.0.6 try it out (I otherwise quit spotify a while back).  It behaves in exactly the same way it always has done - only tracks added to the queue via 'Add to Queue' are deletable.  Tracks that are in the play queue as a result of just hitting play on an album or track are there forever (these are what we have the issue with).

Perhaps you're on a different platform or version though?  I'm 1.0.6 on Windows 7.

[Hogg]

I think people are misunderstanding the point about it being "queued" music vs. "played" music.  Telling us how to select and delete items makes it sound like this thread is about not understanding computer basics.

[JingoElstner]

Any solution that works in 2015? This is so annoying... and so incredibly stupid, too. How can anyone publish such a useless feature and forget the most important feature of all, delete a list?! I can not believe this. It makes me think the world is a place where stupidity can make it's way to the top.

Workaround I figured out: open queue, click the play symbol in the queue list, then the now playing title disappears from the list and the next follows up to the top. click play again. now you can delete every title in the queue with one single click at the play symbol in less than a second without moving the mouse. (Win7).

[tourmi]

Thanks to everyone who has chimed in on this topic of Clearing the
Queue. I've found a way to clear the queue. However, the bigger
"problem" lies in what happens /after /the track with which you've
cleared the queue ends. If you play that track, everything that was in
the queue before you cleared it, returns. It's hard to believe this is a
"feature" and not a "bug." Here's how I clear the queue and prevent
those deleted tracks from returning:

1. Create a "clear-the-queue" playlist.
I call mine "Clear Queue."
2. Place /one /song in that playlist.
I use "Lux 3 (edit)" by Brian Eno from the album LUX (An Excerpt)
because it's unobtrusive, quiet, and short.
3. To clear the queue, double-click the name of your "clear-the-queue"
playlist in the left-hand frame. In my case, I double-click "Clear
Queue."
Everything in the queue is replaced by the track in your
clear-the-queue playlist.
NOTE: You don't have to actually play this track. Just having it
there is enough. However, if you /do /play the track, and it ends
before you've added other music, everything you were listening to
before you cleared the queue returns!!
4. To prevent the above problem, add more music to your queue after
following steps 1-3 above, but you could also do that later.
5. It seems that the principle the Spotify queue operates on is that
when the last track in your queue finishes playing, all the music
you have just finished listening to returns so you can listen to it
again and again and again. However, if you've used the above steps
to clear the queue and have only one song in your "clear-the-queue"
playlist, then the only song that will pop up again is that one.

Hopefully that helps.

[BohemianChick]

Yesss...this works. Had to do it a few times...but everything cleared out the third time. Thanks!

[ianalbert]

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@tourmi wrote:

1. Create a "clear-the-queue" playlist.
I call mine "Clear Queue."
2. Place /one /song in that playlist.
I use "Lux 3 (edit)" by Brian Eno from the album LUX (An Excerpt)
because it's unobtrusive, quiet, and short.
3. To clear the queue, double-click the name of your "clear-the-queue"
playlist in the left-hand frame. In my case, I double-click "Clear
Queue."
Everything in the queue is replaced by the track in your
clear-the-queue playlist.

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I did much the same except I used "There's a Riot Goin' On" by Sly & The Family Stone which is essentially 4 seconds of silence.

[cato901]

@tourmi - thanks for your solution that actually works as of Dec 2015 on Spotify Mac. Also works well on iPhone.

One extra tip: any Queued Tracks can be deleted on Mac by doing click, then shift-click to select all of them, and right-click "Remove from Queue".  On iPhone you just have to swipe-left to skip these.

[tourmi]

You're so welcome, Cato. Now I've got another vexation which maybe you've been able to solve: When I want to change track positions in the queue, I can select a track, hold down the mouse button, and drag it DOWN anywhere I like because the queue scrolls downward while dragging something. But if I want to drag a track UP, it's a different story. I can only drag it as far as the border of the visible set of tracks in the queue. The queue won't scroll upwards when dragging. Any ideas?

[cato901]

Tourmi - no solution for that... Of course you can drop the track at top of current screen, then scroll down, then drag it up, etc...

[rednblu]

Are you using Windows and version 1.0.20.101 of Spotify, @tourmi?  If you don't have 1.0.20.101 installed right now, you can update manually at the following link >> http://upgrade.spotify.com/upgrade/client/win32-x86/spotify_installer-1.0.20.101.ge6957e14-48.exe. <<

I am using 1.0.20.101 and I can drag-and-drop from position 49 of QUEUED TRACKS to position 1-- no problem-- And the screen scrolls down for me to get me to position 1 as you would expect.

[KS2Problema]

One thing that may help is using your desktop browser's page zoom to make everything tiny -- and then you should be able to expose a longer list of tracks. I have to say that that's one place where Google really kicks backside, is queue/player management. Shift and ctrl-click, responsive dragging -- in *both* directions. Play next for a single or selected group of tracks, nice shuffle options that allow you to reshuffle (delete previously played tracks first though, unless you want to hear them again).

[surfbird0713]

@tourmi that worked for me too!! i'm using the web player on a Windows 7 machine in Firefox.  THANK YOU! This was driving me nuts.

[Sam174]

I typed in counting stars and I accidentally put every song that had counting stars in the title or song or the artist Counting stars or anything related to counting stars. Just play your playlist and you should be good