Clear play queue

[TomR]

I have to restart my spotify when I accendently start a song from a search instead of adding it to the queue (happens often to me), would be lovely if there would be a clear button for all the songs added to the queue by spotify it self.

[ixchow]

This has recently become more broken, as others have noted. I intensly dislike having spotify repeat albums -- the whole reason I use spotify is for variety.

Additionally, I tend to use "one album" as a unit of work time and having it not stop at the end can lead to sceduling problems. Other than creating a 24-hour long silent track and just dropping that into its own playlist (which seems like a boneheaded workaround) I'm out of ideas.

[goldenhornet]

Yup, something here is broken.

If you finally get to the end the queue, the album that was queued reappears back in the queue again.  The only way to get rid of it is to manually find and delete the track-player.bnk file and restart the client.

Please fix this.

[Zaxian]

Totally agree with everyone on here regarding the 'playing from' functionality. Intensely irritating - I used to just find it annoying, and 'clear' it by playing and skipping the last track in an album/playlist but now it just repeats it and it's maddening, and doesn't even clear when you restart spotify. Thankfully Richard's solution from the first page of comments worked for me:

1) Make a new, completely empty playlist.

2) Right-click it and choose 'Choose as current playlist' - NOTE this is important, neither 'playing' the playlist nor double clicking it will work, you have to use the 'choose as current playlist' option. It actually then complains about the 'track is not available' but at least it clears the 'playing from' value.

3) You will then have to manually clear the rest of the 'queued' tracks by skipping through all of them. But at least when you get to the end it doesn't repeat. Note - this step can be made easier by 'playing' the last song of an playlist (so there is apparently only one grey song queued) before doing stage 2.

Sort it out spotify.

[mdm]

This is the mostly hilariously stupid thing I have ever seen in "premium software".

"We can't implement a 'delete an item in a list' feature, so here is a voodoo dance to do to maybe clear it instead."

Step your game up.

[jbecan]

I've been using spotify for a while now, and I've been able to work around this disfunction.

But NOW it's even worse!  ..I queued an album the other day, and when it finished, the album RE-queued!  Now there seems to be no way to remove it at all!  ..It just keeps on re-queuing.  (and it's NOT on "repeat")

(Addendum)..

I was, (somehow) able to fix the problem.  ..I'm not even sure how I did it!

This "feature" really needs some attention.

[diss1]

another premium user here, specifically signed up for the forums to add my name to the list of people who think you should be able to clear the play queue so it's empty.

[thghgv]

Had queue and history that WOULD NOT GO AWAY no matter what suggestions were tried in this thread and others. the ONLY thing that actually works to CLEAR OUT both history AND Play Queue is containted in this CleanSpot.bat file I coded here;

replace the letters of only the 2 strings below with YOUR information and everything else should be left alone. This is only tested with Win7 Ultimate x64 and assumes a plain vanilla install of the current spotify client.

replace "YourWindowsUserName" below with whatever user name you use to login to Windows OS

replace "YourSpotifyUserName" with the user name of your Spotify account"

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions
:: ===== Set current directory  ======================
cd /d "C:\Users\YourWindowsUserName\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Users\YourSpotifyUserName-user"
:: =========== clean spotify junk ===================
del track-player.bnk
del local-files.bnk
del facebook-publish.bnk
del purchased.bnk

pause

::end

[starsforanyone]

Good god. I can't believe Spotify sees this as a secondary function. Spotify, y'all are just lucky your competitors have up to now had their heads up their asses, because auto-queueing stuff is totally ridiculous. "Clear Queue" It is a basic functionality that should've been included from the get-go.

[BewareOfDoug]

Definitely agree a simple button would be welcome to clear the queue.  I find the following works for me in the mean time, tho it is three or four clicks:

You must first create an EMPTY play list one time and leave it empty.

When you want to empty your Play Queue:

1) Right click on your EMPTY playlist and click "Choose as Current Playlist".  You will get a yellow flag banner at the top - something about a track not available - you can click on the x at the far right to clear the warning banner.

2) All but ONE song will be cleared from the Play Queue

3) To clear the last song, click on the double-right-arrow (forward to next song) button in the playback controls area - for me that is in the lower left area of the spotify window.

I'm using the FREE Spotify version for Linux Mint (ubuntu) so I'm not sure if this applies to other platform versions  or the paid versions but it seems to work OK for me for now.

I hope this helps although a single-click 'Clear the Queue' button would be much welcome.

[tmolina]

I want to choose what plays next, instead of having songs automatically put into my play queue.

If I wanted songs picked for me, I could play a radio station or click 'Shuffle'.

WOW, mind blowing stuff, right?

Also, without being able to clear your 'play queue', the 'Queue' functionality is brough down as well. Since there always has to be something in there, it will get requeued and played again after whatever you actually wanted to 'queue'.