Understanding the Queue

[bbedo]

Forgive me if this belongs in general help. I'm not sure if this is a bug, a feature, or just stupidity on my part. 

At work, I've been recently using the queue to listen to music to load up albums if I have a minute or two of idle time instead of waiting for them to finish (while I might be in the middle of something). 

What I've noticed is that when the queue runs out, playback stops, but the queue immediately re-fills with the album I just played.  If I've switched devices from my iPhone, Android, or Windows 10 laptop, it may re-fill with some other album I've played sometime in the last few days.  When this happens, I just delete the unwanted items out. 

Is it possible to just have the queue simply run out?

[Soundofus]

Hello @bbedo and welcome to the community.

Don't worry, nothing stupid for asking about something not clear for you. 🙂

The Play Queue is built that way. Every time you run out of a playlist or an album, it automatically refills the play queue with the last thing you have played whatever the device you have used.

If you click play, it will restart to play what is in the queue.

But anytime you start to play something new, it will replace automatically what was in the queue.

If you finish a session by playing a single song, it will clear the queue with only this last single song played staying in the queue.

A little trick that I use time to time to clear the queue : I have a playlist called "Clear Queue'. You can use it for your own 🙂

Hope that will help  🙂

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[bbedo]

Thanks for the reply. 

I've noticed that items that haven't been in my queue for a few days are placed back in when I start Spotify for the first time in the morning. It's really not that big of a deal, but if a setting existed to allow the queue to completely empty out, I would definitely enable it.