Make entire play queue editable

[Dommedagsprofet]

There's currently two queues in Spotify:

• The editable queue. ("Queued tracks")

• The locked queue. ("Next tracks")

If you press the  queue button with tracks in both lists, you can see that these two queues follow each other. The editable queue always plays first.

The problem is having a locked queue at all.

You can't empty it without interrupting playback, and you'll have to use a workaround to do so. You can't reorder it or add or delete songs. After finishing the editable queue, Spotify always continues playback from the locked queue.

The workaround is starting playback at the very last item on a page. The locked queue will then have no further items. Then you can continue by purely using the queue right-click function instead of double-click or enter. This adds items to the editable queue. These tracks can then be reordered and deleted as you wish.

This UI behaviour is, however, not very user-friendly and quite frankly really annoying. It's also very unconventional having two queues in a music player. I've never seen any other software using either a dual-queue system or a locked queue system.

Here's a good implementation suggestion from user Styrke:

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Google Play Music's queue system is really easy to understand and use. Just do what they do.

I can describe it by three (3) easy bullets:

• Double clicking a song starts playing it and adds the rest of the list that the song came from to the queue. (The queue gets overwritten)
• Right click one or more songs to add them to the top ("play next") or the bottom ("add to queue") of the queue.
• Everything in the queue can be removed or rearranged by drag-and-drop

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EDIT: I updated the terminology to match the new Spotify. Items are no longer yellow and white, but are now under separate headings and in the same color instead.

[jowefoiojifewjo]

@rednblu

All you have done is solitified my point by showing me this article and suggesting that I use outdated software, not to mention your suggestion does not resolve the issue at hand. There needs to be a button / link / option to edit my queue / delete my queue as I wish, it is that simple, not some work around that kind of works.

Spotify does have a decent catalog, but I am not going to pay a monthly fee if this is the best they can offer. When searching the web and on these forums, it seems that this service is only degrading, I am glad I paid exactly what I feel this service is worth, $0.33 a month.

[rednblu]

I suggest that this particular suggestion "Make entire play queue editable" has zero value and is actually a step backward. Having the "white" area of the Play queue not editable is highly valuable in the 0.9.x Desktop version. The automated 1) Shuffle and 2) Playlist selection must have control of the "white" area-- but it is useful to see what is stacked in the computer-controlled queue.

The real problem here is that the version series 1.0.x has a completely different purpose from the 0.9.x series.

* The purpose of 1.0.x is to Enable simplified and centralized metacode that is simply compiled at low-cost on the Target Hardware for the various different user modules-- Desktop, Web browser, iOS, Android, . . . .

* Over 90% of the functionality of 0.9.x will be missing always from 1.0.x-- because 1.0.x is aimed at the portion of the streaming market that will-- after kicking and screaming-- finally accept the force-feed from a simple Pandora-like user interface that requires minimal CPU, memory, disk, and screen-area.

What the programmers should do is just hide the White "uneditable" queue. Then the only items displayed under the "Queue" symbol are

1) Current track playing and any

2) User-added tracks to the "editable" queue that will play before the next item in the hidden queue that operates like the current White "uneditable" queue-- but hidden to avoid confusing the user.

[Ornwilson]

I have tried living around this issue for 2 months, but it's time to make my money talk: I'm going to Google Play music because 70% of the time, my listening is ad-hoc and I want to queue up a bunch of stuff that people say "ooh, play this". Missing basic features = losing the customers that would be the most loyal if. You actually listened.

[rpserrano]

@Ornwilson

I left Spotify about 6 months ago for Google Play Music precisely because of this one thing, and I felt a bit frustrated because there are many features spotify did precisely right. Now I came back here to see whether they have improved the queue, but still nothing...

Being able to reorder your play queue is such a BASIC feature for any music player. I really don't get why they didn't implement the queue this way from the start.

[melanke]

We really need this! I almost quitted Spotify because this issue. I only stayed because it has more music and I will leave if this issue persists when Google get more music.

[rednblu]

>> Here is the solution << to the "Yellow" editable queue problem-- until such time as you can get God to answer your prayer and "Make the entire play queue editable."

[Marco]

Merged a similar idea with this topic here and added the (70) kudos to have all feedback and kudos about that request in one place. 😉

[Ultimation]

Status: Under Consideration

2014-09-30

Hey everyone! We're back to let you know this idea is still "Under Consideration". If we have an update on the ability to edit the Play Queue we will post here first.

Well... Spotify? It's been almost a year. How long do you need to consider this?

Have you considered that paying users get highly frustrated when extremely simple tasks are COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE in this program? I want to have control of my play queue. I think $9.99 is enough to make that happen. I could pay a programmer on fiverr to do it for you, if you'll refund me that portion of my monthly fee.

[melanke]

Maybe is more like a strategic move not implementing this. Maybe, just maybe, we are more likely to use the random function and they choose what they want us to hear and we don't even have the choice to reorder it. So they pay mas re some artists or make them more popular this way. Idk, it sounds like a conspirancy theory but the sort of things we expect of big companys, specially in the music industry.

[Doughnuts]

Spotify absolutely must have a way of clearing or cancelling the 'white' queue.  I don't care if it's not editable, so long as it can be cancelled.  Having it constantly throw songs back into your play queue is extremely frustrating and strongly degrates the experience of using Spotify. 

Like some other users have posted above me, I left Spotify because of this issue and went to Google Play Music.  Spotifiy's audio quality is more consistent and their catalog is better, but that doesn't help if the player is so painful to use.  Does that make it clear enough to Spotify?  I'd rather pay the same amount of money to use a service with a lower quality and quantity of music.  That's how much this issue bothers me.