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.

[derxk]

The two queues in the android app is really annoying as well. Rearranging it leads to the entire queue being deleted

[leeburt82]

I'm using Spotify on Android (SGS6). I can add songs to my queue, but when I try to rearrange tracks, everything is deleted from my queue except the song that's currently playing & the track that I'm moving. Anyone know how to fix this?

[derxk]

^that's exactly the same thing I'm trying to say. It gets really annoying when your entire queue gets deleted 😞

[moonsetsky]

Spotify worries me. I had an atrocious time with its Android app 3 or 4 years ago and moved to Rdio as I loved its website and Android app and it was so easy to use. Since it closed I've subscribed to Google Play but am still not 100% keen on it. I came back to Spotify yesterday to give it another go.

I'm disappointed to see, however, that the queuing interface still sucks. When I search for and double click on a track I want to listen to, 99% of the time I don't want to listen to other tracks in the search results or album. It is frustrating having to skip song after song just to clear the queue.

This suggestion has been present for exactly four years and there was a measly reply a month ago about it still being under consideration. Looking to the right of the page is a column of 'Recently Implemented' ideas, most of which were implemented in 2014 and some of which had less than 70 kudos compared to this idea's current kudos of 780.

So what's going on? Why has there been what seems to me to be no improvement whatsoever? Spotify, you may be one of the best in terms of catalogue, price, and worldwide reach, but your lack of ideas and innovation (especially for something so basic and obvious) is astounding.

[DSleith]

You are spot on, moonsetsky - no pun intended. 

It is a farce. I have had enough. Every point you made just highlights the complete lack of consideration Spotify seems to have for its user base. We will still be berating this a year to come. There is no way implementing such an improvement could possibly take four years; they simply are not bothering their arse.

'Still under consideration' - when I saw that last month I was actually taken aback. It was like a slap in the face. I do not know who they are trying to fool with that fob.

Well, I will tell you now: 'Under my consideration' for the last year or so has been the idea of switching to a different streaming service; the difference between myself and Spotify is that I have actually implemented this idea. I started my 30 day free trial of TIDAL yesterday, and thus far have not experienced a single spike in blood pressure! The frustration caused by Spotify just became too much.

[riesenspass]

Spotiify, please fix this.

[EricInWisconsin]

Riesenspass, I couldn't have said it any better myself.

Spotify, please fix this.

[eatCasserole]

Google Play does the Queue best. I have no idea what the point of two queues is in the first place...

No "next songs" at all, just one Queue, and the options to "Play Next" or "Add to Queue" (at the end) would make me ❤️ spotify.

[jarodtaylor]

The fact that people have been requesting a "Clear All" for the queue for 4+ years and they still haven't implemented it, is ridiculous. 

[kake2k]

This is possible on a mobile device, why not on the PC? I never really tried to do this on the PC somehow in the 3 years I've been using spotify, but tis just main f***cking disgusting that this isnt in there since day 1. Lets go, spotify.