Return to playlist after song

[Impala]

Hello!

is there an option that spotify continues with a particular playlist if you clicked a song that's not in that playlist?

Now wenn i choose to listen to a song from a artist that is not in my playlist, wenn the song ends it continues to play that artist playlist.

Hope y'all understand! 😅

Impala,

[kxra]

Hi Impala,

I would suggest that while you're listening to your playlist, instead of selecting the song you would like to listen to, simply add it to queue instead. This will allow the desired song to play next and then return you back to your playlist when the song is over. I hope this helped!

[teohhanhui]

> simply add it to queue instead

And what if I'm not currently listening to the playlist? I just want to be able to listen to random songs without switching the current playlist which I'll like to get back to later. (And the lack of playlist bookmarks means I can't jump right back in if the current playlist gets switched. It's a real pain to find back where you left off, for very long playlists.)

[Yordan]

Hi @teohhanhui,

Thanks for your post!

It's important to distinguish between the two sections in the queue, namely Next in Queue and Next From. Next in Queue contains songs that you've manually added to the queue. These songs take priority over Next From songs, meaning they'll play as soon as the current track that's playing is over. Once all tracks from Next in Queue are played (or cleared), the playback will continue with the tracks under Next From.

Here's a workaround that you may find useful for the time being: If you'd like to listen to random songs, without changing the song order in the queue, you can add the playlist you'd like to go back to manually to the queue, so that the songs will appear under the Next in Queue section. That way, once you're done listening to random songs, the playback will continue from the playlist you added to the queue. Just keep in mind that it will start from the first track you added, so you'll have to skip to the specific song in the playlist you were previously listening to.

Hope this helps. The Community is always here if there's anything else you need assistance with.

Cheers!

[Bait_Andswitced]

Wow I find this reply is so incredibly complicated that it doesn’t really answer the issue… If I am listening to a song list, and someone mentions a song that we want to search on Spotify (not necessarily add to any song list) but don’t want to lose the place. I currently am in a random song list… For instance, I happen to like the order that my song list is being played at that moment (often at random) there should be a way that a person can just pause the song list for a moment It, so that you can look up a song for whatever reason and afterwards hit the back button and go back to your song list…  

however, once you search for a song and hit the back button to go back to the song list and the particular order you were listening to, you are not able to.

Instead it just goes back to this song that you searched and more versions of that same song… Often the song you’re looking up you don’t even want to add to a playlist so maybe an idea would be to say have a way that you can pause a playlist exactly where it’s at, and then have the ability to look up a song without jeopardizing what you’re actually listening to in the moment I hope this makes some sense

[Vasil]

Hey @Bait_Andswitced,

We appreciate the feedback! Have you ever thought about posting it in the form of an idea on our Ideas Exchange?

Feel free to submit any idea - just make sure you familiarize yourself with the Idea Exchange Guidelines first 🙂

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Aside from that and before posting - it's also worth taking a look at what active Ideas we currently have on the forum - e.g. this one looks similar to your suggestion. You can leave your vote to any Ideas you feel like supporting and share your feedback with us about anything you wish to submit in your own words.

Many thanks! We're here for you should any further questions come to mind.

[Bait_Andswitced]

The point is when you are in a playlist you can not 'search' for a song without leaving your current songlist, as soon as you hit search you go outside the list you were in and lose your place, after you have searched you can go back to a particular song list but will now be at another place on that list if you were not in chronological order, and sometimes with longer lists in random mode you can not get that order back