Disable "Next up" & "Next From"

[Peter1992]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Galaxy s10e, Galaxy S21FE, Windows 10 desktop app

Operating System

Android 12, Windows 10

My Question or Issue

How do I get spotify to stop autoplaying? 

I will play a song(not album) or a podcast and not create a queue and It will still autoplay. It will label it as "next up" for music and "next from" for podcasts. I went on every device and disabled autoplay & autoplay on other devices, the problem persists. 

I went to the account page and "signed out everywhere" and am currently only signed into the desktop windows 10 app where I have autoplay turned off. Spotify still autoplays. 

There must be a way to turn this off, right? 

[NewMike]

Spotify couldn't care less about what users think. Take me for example, I have been complaining for years that the podcast player is just too plain. For instance, it won't let you choose the amount of seconds to rewind or fastforward the podcast.

[manadspaniel]

Disappointing that Spotify aren't listening to user feedback on this issue. Often times I'll add multiple EPs/albums to my queue so I don't have to go into the app to find something new to listen to.

When I listen to an album on its own I often want to listen to some new ones, and might add them to my queue. Unfortunately, because it sets the song to the first of an album once you've finished it, Spotify will decide to add the entire album I just listened to in the Next From section, playing after I've finished my queue. This is undesirable, and seeing as I can't even manually remove songs from the Next From section (despite there clearly being a function to do so, which doesn't work), it becomes quite a pain point.

Why not empty the playing list once an album's finished? I'm not interested in listening to an entire thing repeatedly like that.

[wideopeniris]

Plan

Premium,Family

Country

UK

Device

all

Operating System

Windoze, Ios, Android

My Question or Issue

So I learnt never to let my kids use my spotty instance !

Its been a long term gripe. Even though Autoplay is set to off, Spotty cant help itself.

I queue some tracks (usually Albums) - when they finish playing Spotty goes to playing tracks of its own suggestion ('Next from' in the 'queue' ). These are usually what Spotty thinks I will like and its almost always wrong, especially after my kids queued a few odd tracks of theirs - it wants to pump everything from one their artists.

What really gets my goat - if I delete the tracks in the 'Next from:' list - they just re-appear infinitely - the same tracks . I feel like my instance is permanently polluted.

There is nothing more irritating than listening to some calm and reflective music , an album that say has a quiet atmospheric conclusion, to have spotty then play raucous pop music immediately afterward.

_Please_ is there any way to stop it?

[wideopeniris]

Thanks moderator - yeah that's what I call customer focus - move embarrassing or critical threads into other old threads so you can bury them - you really don't care about your end users, do you ? !

[owen1218]

The "next from" is my least favorite thing about Spotify. When I used to play on Winamp, not only would my songs would stop playing when my list finished, there was even a feature making it easy to stop playing music after the current track. As someone with ADHD and sensitive to sounds I love using music as a sort of alarm clock-- when the music is done playing, I know it's time to go. Spotify makes this impossible with this nonsensical "feature" which should be optional and not forced on us.

[TylerIBrown]

I am having the same issue with this "feature". This is the worst damned idea for podcasts. Who wants to listen to old, already listened too episodes of podcasts they have already listened too

[blurbyglurb]

This "feature" is the single worst part of the spotify experience.  Selecting one song in an album should not mean playing the whole rest of the album without the option of clearing the queue.

[Stopforgettingit]

Just chiming in to say, still a problem over a year later. The very minimum functionality here should be a clear all next button, so I don't have to manually remove one at a time all 300 podcast episodes Spotify randomly decides to add to my next up list.

[daysocks]

Another chime in for next from being the single most annoying feature ever. I listen to one album, then start another, and the first album is in next from and nothing I can do will clear it. I do not want to listen to QOTSA's ...Like Clockwork immediately again!

[fl4shb1c]

I just subscribed to Spotify premium last night to replace Amazon Music. First thing I noticed were ads in podcasts... that seemed stranged when paying, but after searching it's a thing that Spotify does apparently... even if you pay, they'll still insert ads in podcasts. And now I  discover I can't simply listen to an album or song without Spotify trying to "force" more content on me. I was happily walking home, shopping bags in one hand and umbrella in the other while listening to tunes. Then Spotify starts playing its own stuff and I've got to juggle getting wet and trying to get my phone out to stop it. No thanks... I'll vote with my money. Byeee...

[DKleinschrodt]

For me, it’s when I’m moving from one device to another or when starting to
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[mhogerheijde]

I thought I was going crazy. Not being able to disable "next from" is really annoying. I want to listen to 1 specific album and when it's done, I don't want anything else? For some artists, I like this one specific album and not the next one. Sometimes I'm just in a specific mood for some specific album. etc. etc.

I've got auto-play disabled for a reason. Imho "next from" is just a disguised form of auto-play. (Just a less sophisticated variant)

[Haver_Mout]

But if this is a hidden case of 'It's not a bug, it's a feature" then it is 'bugging' users that only want to hear f.e. the two last episodes of a podcast and then be done listening to spotify.

I guess the developers should see their app as an appliance for users to play what they want to listen to, and nothing mor€.

Hope this helps.

[hglevine]

Here I am in on Aug 30, 2024 and I am having the same problem that I finally discover that loads of other people have complained about for years. I finally figured out that I can hit next song 20 or more times to delete the "Next" list that appears even when I have autoplay turned off. And it worked. But then I clicked on one song of the list of songs of a particular artist and it instantly put a zillion more in. I then sped through the process of the next arrow half a zillion times and ... oops, spotify repopulated the cannot-be-deleted Next list. And now I find that what I must do it search for a song and then somehow click that song in some magical mysterious way. This is an insanely stupid bug that serves nobody. Please note, there are no people writing in saying "I like this feature. I want no way to turn off the Next list from growing and growing unless I tiptoe through searching for a single song."  Spotify, don't you at least owe an explanation for why this bug -- or feature if you prefer -- hangs on and on. What for heaven's sake is the justification for it? "We're not smart enough to fix it?" That is not acceptable. Stop this **bleep**. Pretty please with ice cream on top.

[freespeechfin]

Please listen to us paying customers' concerns and implement solutions to them!

Your software could be great if the simplest features were available (before any of the rather useless fancy ones). Functional playback and control over it is what a playback software should have at its core since day one of release.

I am every day frustrated about those many annoying forced features of your software that have no option to turn them off or even a reasonable workaround.

This time i came to look for a solution to the ever-persistent flaw of not having a way to play just one song or a few in a queue without needing to guard the playback to stop it when the wanted songs have stopped playing and before the "Next From" starts playing.

Tonight, i managed to work around it once by starting to play a list, jump to the last track in it and then skip to the one queued piece that i only wanted to hear.

Then, when i wanted to repeat the process i could not get rid of the "Next From" issue.

Please, just add a simple button for enabling/disabling "Next From" AND allow for a queue to be created and played alone.

About 20 years ago i would use my computer to play local music files with Winamp. Now, that was a legendary piece of software that worked really well. Please, study that!

With it it was easy and intuitive to organize the play queue. You could have a long playlist active, yet make it stop playing after a chosen amount of tracks in queue, if you wanted.

[honeymagician96]

"turn the Autoplay feature off"

this bug was disturbing me while at pc -.-''''

you the best

much love for you

[freespeechfin]

Tried that already and it doesn't help - as has been the case for others in this thread, thanks. Also, not using PC but Android. The "30s silence" workaround works, but shouldn't be the goto choice here..

[lau2m]

it's 2025 and here I am to complain about the same thing other users have been complainig FOR YEARS. Please, I just want to be able to listen as many songs as I want to!!! Adding a “End of Queue” option to the Sleep Timer would be great.

[aiuo]

I totally get you. Reading through this thread is just frustrating. It is provocative how the Spotify moderators dismiss the conversation about this by pointing out that it is "expected behaviour".

[Elstersen]

Any luck with fixing this issue? Every time I click on an album (on Desktop), another album is added to my playlist once this album is over. All my autoplays are off. But still so far I could not find a way to play to only one album.

Is there any way for a user to listen only to the album they want to listen to? Ideally, so that the "play" button on an album would make this album only? So that a paying customer could choose what albums to listen to?