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How do you mean “stop a song playing automatically”?

I always assumed that was the default behaviour of music players and that Spotify was the outlier on continuing to play related songs after your playlist had ended (it being a “feature” of Spotify).

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It's an old school playlist management feature from the Amarok Era, it's for when you're thinking "this is the last song I'm listening to, but I do want to finish it". Once that song gets hit in your playlist, it'll automatically stop playback at the end of it.

And by playlist I more mean active queue. Making it sound complex but it's a very intuitive UI if you try it out.

The whole design of Amarok/Clementine is so far ahead of modern players like Spotify, just being able to browse songs off your play list while keeping your playlist visible would be nice, but stuff like "queue as next" vs "queue as last" is awesome. These days Electron UIs confuse me so much I'm not sure what I can even drag and drop.

> It's an old school playlist management feature from the Amarok Era, it's for when you're thinking "this is the last song I'm listening to, but I do want to finish it". Once that song gets hit in your playlist, it'll automatically stop playback at the end of it.

That's just the "play once" option that exists in 99% of music player's, isn't it? Supported by all default music players on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, as far as I can see.

What I mean is basically like a delayed "pause" button that triggers once the currently playing song ends. It can be set during playback and doesn't affect any other playback setting or queued songs.

The alternative is either abruptly stopping playback or staring at the progress bar and waiting a couple minutes for the right moment to click a button. In other words, it's one of those simple but tedious things you'd want to automate.

I wish every standard player had this, but as far as I have seen that is not the case.

I'm still not seeing a difference.

If for example I'm playing a playlist from... Any player, but let's say YouTube Music. I hit the repeat button until it sets to "Repeat Once", it will play to the end of the song and then stop.

It won't effect the queue or playback in any other way.

They probably meant a function where the playback stops after the current song.

I know this from my podcast app with a "Zzzz" Icon where you can stop playback after the current episode or after a certain time (e.g. 15 minutes).

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