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.

[yousifsalam]

Yeah.. I'm really missing the simplicity and the functionality of queue from Google play music.. I thought that you guys would have the edge here since you've been around for so much longer-i think. 

[EricInWisconsin]

Does anyone know how many "Kudos" are needed to get a reaction from Spotify? Since many of people's other ideas for improvements require an editable queue, I'll bet we can move people from the other threads to this one and get them to kudo us.

[rocket_fish]

@EricInWisconsin Your suggestion may work but I think a better solution would be to start asking for a better queue in a more public forum. I think Spotify is more likely to take notice if we start a campaing to ask for it on Twitter that anyone can see vs. this hidden thread that only a few will ever take notice of. If anyone is intersted in bombarding Twitter with our wish for a better queue (see my earlier posts) I would be happy to help out. Please let me know, use this link  https://goo.gl/ivsPMP to reference back to this thread and use the hashtag #SpotifyDoesntCare since @SpotifyCares is the one that response to Twitter comments. 

[rocket_fish]

On a side note, to anyone reading this thread, give this idea/thread kudos, not individual posts

[DSleith]

Yeah, we need to move forward on this and get one massive petition going! A massive petition to get a program to work like it should have been designed to in the first place that they seem to be just obstinately refusing to fix. I'm getting **bleep**ing pissed off now. The people who designed Spotify, do they not use it? If they did they would surely know to rectify the frustrating mess that it is. Cheers, Let's rally a posse!

[meahtenoha]

Updated: 2015-12-14

Hey everyone. Spotify Staff here. We wanted to jump back in here to say we still think this is a great idea and it's still under consideration. When we have an update on this feature on any platform we will let you all know right here. Please know that even though we may not update each idea every month we are keeping a close on eye them all. 

[EricInWisconsin]

Thaks for at least letting us know you are listening....

[Doughnuts]

Hey @Meredith, thanks for the update.  I hope this means that we might get some action here.  If it can't be solved completely then even some small updates for using the queue would be appreciated.

[idontneedalogin]

The queue badly needs a redesign. The 'Locked' queue idea is a very strange one. It is so difficult to listen to music of my own chosing! It's also riddled with bugs.

I find the queue in Google Music very simple use. You can't go too far wrong if you just copy its behaviour / functionality.

[rocket_fish]

@meahtenoha Hasn't this idea been under consideration for 3 years? What does "Under Consideration" mean to you? For as severe as this problem is and as much feedback as we have gotten from Spotify since this thread first started (almost 4 years ago), “Under Consideration” means to me, Spotify doesn’t really want to deal with it but wants it’s users to sit tight and quite bitching about it.

I find it odd that Spotify only thought it necessary to chime in after its users are considering a social media campaign to get this changed. Please don’t demean us with insignificant updates, let us know when and how this problem is going to be fixed.

Until such time, who is in for posting on Twitter.and any other social media outlet you prefer. @Spotify @SpotifyCares https://goo.gl/ivsPMP #SpotifyDoesntCare. Respond "IN" if you want to help out!