Impossible To Play A Single Track

[DarkSwordmaster]

It is now completely impossible to play a single track. It used to be if you right-clicked a song and hit 'Play' it would only play that song (assuming you had an empty queue, a nearly impossible task in itself). Now that option is GONE, the only option double-clicking the track or its play arrow to the side.


THIS QUEUES UP THE ENTIRE SEARCH RESULTS OR THE ALBUM!!!

Congrats, with this update you've taken your already worst-in-the-industry playback and made it worse.

There is LITERALLY NO WAY to delete a single track from the queue or clear the queue entirely, and now there is LITERALLY NO WAY to not create a queue.

Spotify is the absolute literal worst music player I have ever used and the library is the ONLY redeeming feature. I can only pray an alternative gets developed.

[Soundofus]

Hello there 🙂

The queue is less intuitive as in previous version but it still works fine.

There is 2 steps

1 - When you start to play a playlist for example, play queue looks like this :

2 - Once you have queued a song (right click > add to queue)  it looks like this

3 - You can also add to queue any else song from any other location (not especially from the list titled NEXT SONGS). Anything you add to queue will go in the part QUEUED SONGS

[DarkSwordmaster]

This is not what I was asking about and is not a solution. I don't want to play a playlist, I want to play a SINGLE TRACK. I just searched for a song and clicked the play button next to it. I am now being forced to listen to EVERY SINGLE OTHER SEARCH RESULT WHETHER I WANT TOOR NOT! This is TERRIBLE behavior and makes listening to any specific track LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE!

[Soundofus]

I understand,

Whatever you do search, listen a playlist, an album...

In the queue, the song you play become 'Current Track"

All the rest of search, playlist, album will go to "NEXT SONG" and will play one after one till you start another song which will become the new "Current track" or till you add songs in QUEUE

Unless that if when you do a search and rather click play the song you just right cllick and > Add to queue < this song will have priority to be played before everything in "NEXT SONGS"

If you have a song playing while you add another to queue, just click button 'next song' and it will stop the current track and the one in queue will play.

[DarkSwordmaster]

I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY THE ENTIRE ALBUM!

I DO NOT WANT TO PLAY EVERY SEARCH RESULT!

I DO NOT WANT ANYTHING TO QUEUE UP AND PLAY AFTERWARDS!

I want to find a song, listen to it, and then have NO OTHER SONG PLAY AFTERWARDS! This is currently IMPOSSIBLE to do!

[Soundofus]

Then click stop after you have listened the only one song you want listen or put in repeat the only one song you want listen or even better create a playlist with the only one song you want listen it will stop when you will have listened the playlist with the only one song you want listen.

[DarkSwordmaster]

I don't want to manually stop the next track that starts playing.

I don't want to listen to the same track over and over again.

I don't want to go through the trouble of making a playlist FOR A SINGLE SONG every time I want to listen to a song.

I want them to fix their garbage playback system so that Spotify is less of a piece of total crap. Unfortunately every single update seems to go in the opposite direction of this.

[glassparrot]

I agree with you completely, DarkSwordmaster. It annoys me to no end when a software designer wants to do things for me that I didn't ask for, explicitly. The problem is, of course, that any paid service or software is going to have to manipulate the user's experience in a way that allows the company to make more money. In this case, however, I think it would be in Spotify's interest to allow people to pay the same monthly fee and stream fewer songs... because that would mean fewer royalties paid out.

I just decided to try out the paid Spotify service after Grooveshark shut down... and this is certainly one thing that is going to be like a thorn in my thumb for a long time. I don't come to Spotify or Grooveshark for a radio-like experience. I love being able to find a specific song, and then enjoy the silence until it dawns on me that I might want to listen to another song or three.

It's going to be a lot of work to make a new playlist out of each song I want to listen to by itself.

[DarkSwordmaster]

You registered JUST to post a sarcastic post that both completely misses the point of this issue and doesn't add anything meaningful to its discussion. I'm so proud of myself for making you that angry.

[glassparrot]

Gosh, you are a powderkeg, aren't you? Misreading earnestness as sarcasm seems to be a plague on American websites.

[DarkSwordmaster]

Maybe I misread but it sure appeared like it when I first read it, as if you were saying I was complaining about free features they've added.

Regardless, this does such and if you're serious I'm sorry for misreading your post. It's hard to judge the tone of text and this community has repeatedly balked at any posts I've made suggesting Spotify has problems.

[timmiedinnie]

Very off-topic:

I can understand it angers you that the possibility of playing a single track is removed. Heck that's even the reason I'm here because I'm missing the feature aswell.

"It's hard to judge the tone of text and this community has repeatedly balked at any posts I've made suggesting Spotify has problems."

Sorry to rain on your parade and the following sounds harsh,  but you will need to learn to stop acting like a four year old to be taken seriously.

The tone of text of your original post is very, very clear and if you would even try reading it out loud you sound like an absolute **bleep**.

You are suggesting that there are problems with Spotify, the same way Russia is trying to land commercial airplanes with missiles. 

The conversation between you and soundofkudos is cringeworthy the least.

[DarkSwordmaster]

And you need to understand that this has been an ongoing problem for literally YEARS since Spotify's inception. It hasn't even been looked at or acknowledged, so what's the same thing that gets the vocal minority of a group on the news and grants them attention?

Yelling.

Spotify's development team has yet to fix problems that have been going on for years, despite the assurances that they're working "super duper hard!" on them. It's ridiculous and it's maddening. So I told them to go **bleep** themselves. I tried not doing that the first SEVERAL times I posted about this and the ads-skipping-songs issues. But I'm done with that, they're a **bleep**ty development team that **bleep**tily develop a **bleep**ty product.

[Stahlgewitter]

You really need to look up the definition of "literal" in a dictionary. My brain hurt just reading this.

I do understand your frustration, however. Spotify doesn't seem to care or even listen to what anyone wants. Soundofus user's amazing ability at not listening is also something that nearly inspires awe-struck admiration. Haha. Five responses and he's still "solving" the issue he imagines you described.

Hilarious stuff.

[DarkSwordmaster]

Thanks for bumping a months old topic.

Every usage of the word "literally" in my posts is correct. You LITERALLY cannot delete a track from the queue and I have LITERALLY never used a worse music player in my life than Spotify.

But yes, this problem will likely never be solved because the development team for Spotify are incompetant.

[timmiedinnie]

I share much of annoyance.  While the Development team isn't responsible for what the project leader put's in their priority backlog.

I agree the backlog, and priorities definitly does not lie with making us users in this community happy (a lot of audiophiles and people who care about using good software).

We are all a minority here, the vast amount of users are teenagers and people who don't care about the features that we do.

That said:

    "so what's the same thing that gets the vocal minority of a group on the news and grants them attention?,  Yelling."

This is hardly the same, and

    "But yes, this problem will likely never be solved because the development team for Spotify are incompetant."

very fitting of "4 year old behaviour"  And like I said 

Yelling does not make a standpoint any better. You also yell at the helpdesk person at the phone, who has to do what someone else tells him to do? 

It makes people ignore this post completly.

That said:

For people still finding this topic : 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Stop-Playback-After-Current-Track/idi-p/7451

I think this submission will help. And we should vote on it.

[physik4r]

Glad to see some other users are frustrated by this stupidity. I can't believe Spotify hasn't addressed this use case; it would take an engineer probably 15 minutes to write this feature!

[charliepops]

I came here just to share my frustration with this.

[d2az]

I agree.  Sometimes you want to hear just one song in particular.  But after it finishes, Spotify takes off with whatever it feels should be next.  Good grief.  I can play one song on YouTube.  Shouldn't be rocket science.

[hanssonepro]

**bleep** is this **bleep**????? why cant i play a single song??? Sometimes i want to fall asleep to a few songs, but it has to play all night??? And suddenly get a louder track and wake up. im paying for this **bleep**....
Im going to Apple music Bye