How does the Play Queue work?

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Answer:

In this article you can get more info on how the Play queue works and how to add and remove songs.

If you've started playing songs from Search or an artist page, these will show up under Next Up. To change them, select another list and begin playing - this will automatically update the Next Up in the Queue. 

If you manually add a specific song or a whole album to the queue, it will place them at the top of the queue, right after the currently played track under Next In Queue.

You can add songs, playlists or albums to the queue on the desktop app by clicking on the 3 dots  under the playlist's or album's title or next to the song and choosing the Add to queue option.

This is how it looks like in the desktop app and the web player: 

In the mobile app, you can tap on either  (iOS) or  (Android) under the under the playlist's or album's title or next to the song and choosing the Add to queue option.  

Here's how to clear the Play Queue on a few different types of device:

Desktop

• Hit the  button in the bottom-right of the app.
• Hit the Clear queue button next to Next In Queue to remove the whole queue in one click.
• You can also select individual tracks in the queue and remove them by either hitting 'Delete' on your keyboard or right-clicking a track and choosing Remove from queue.
  

Mobile

• Tap the Now Playing bar at the bottom of the app.
• Hit the  in the bottom-right corner.
• In the Play Queue, tap  to the left of the tracks(s) you want to remove and hit Remove at the bottom.

There's more about the Play Queue in this article. 

Note that Spotify will play songs until you either stop Spotify itself or add different music to the Queue. This feature's called Autoplay and you can get more info on how it works here.

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