Resuming playback of 'Liked Songs' fails

[pson]

Plan

Premium

Country

Sweden

Device

Motorola Edge 20 Pro

Operating System

Android 11

Spotify 8.7.6.1083 but issue is older

My Question or Issue

Since the built in random play is a joke I've switched to sorting my "Liked Songs' in alphabetical order instead and just let it play.

But it seems that Spotify don't like this because if I stop listening, use my phone for something else and a bit later open Spotify again and resumes play of the song that was playing it plays as expected. What happens after that song is done though isn't expected, the queue is filled with Spotifys version of random songs instead of what song that's comes next alphabetically.

No, Spotify does not have background restrictions.

No, I don't press that awful "random" play button.

Yes, I have turned off every possible setting for autoplay this and autoplay that.

First I thought this was because of my old and outdated phone but I just got a new one and the behavior is still the same.

So is this yet another one of Spotifys super cool new feature that no one has asked for or is this a proper bug? Have no hope in getting it fixed either way but would be nice to know. And if anyone has a work-around since that's the way things usually is solved until som dev is bored and remove/add something that breaks the work-around too.

[Alex]

Hey @pson,

Thanks for reporting this in the Community!

We'll look into it 🙂

When you come back to the app and play the last played song, can you check if the songs that follow are in the same order as if sorted by Date Added?

Looking forward to your reply.

[pson]

Nope, just as I wrote, they are in Spotify's so called random order. 

[Eni]

Hey @pson, 

Thanks for letting us know.

Would you mind sending us a screen recording of the issue happening so we can take a closer look? You can attach it to your next response by using the Insert Video option in the post editor or upload it to a different platform and send us the link to it. We'd like to investigate this further.

We'll be waiting for your reply.

[pson]

Sorry, no idea how to do that. And how would that help you understand it better? It would show nothing that I haven't already described and isn't exactly rocket science involved when replicating it.

Sort Liked Songs by title

Pick a tune and listen on a few

Pause

Wait some time (haven't found a minimum)

Resume play

Next song will be a Spotify-random one instead of the next in line if sorting by title

[Eni]

Hi there @pson,

We want to thank you for your report on this.

The right folks at Spotify are aware of this issue and are currently looking into it 🙂

We recommend keeping your app up to date, not to miss any updates.

If you need a hand with anything else, the Community is here for you.

[pson]

So you finally fixed it but then managed to "unfix" it so maybe it was just a coincidence.

Anyhow....

It's back and the behavior is just like before.

Looking forward to a prompt and permanent fix. 

[Elena]

Hey @pson,

Thanks for bringing this up.

This is still being looked at and the teams are working on a fix. Could you tell us which Spotify version are you currently using?

Also check if the app on your phone requires an update.

Keep us posted,

Cheers!

[pson]

OK, so then you accidentally fixed it earlier because it was when I updated
to 8.7.26.901 (might have skipped a version or two) yesterday it came back.
No new update to install as of today.

[pson]

And now you've managed to make it even worse. Sometimes a quick pause under a minute is all that's needed to trigger it.

So pleas just be honest.

If you really had someone trying to fix this it would've been fixed by now, especially since you fixed it some versions ago (unintentionally?) so say it as it is, this will not be fixed and is working as you want it to, so I don't need to wait for something that'll never happen. 

Version 8.7.38.664

[pson]

This is driving me mad, how far are you in your work on a fix? 

[Ven3]

same here, I'm going mad with this

[HugeEuge20]

I have mine sorted by artist and also just want to listen to my songs in order and am unable. Is there a reason your player is unable to play the liked/downloaded songs in order of how they are filtered? Why does it always revert back to some sort of randomization? When I do get it to work it usually just queues like 30 songs and then stops. I've uninstalled, cleared the cache and turned off all auto play options. It's extremely annoying to pay for a premium service and not be able to perform a basic function. Seems like you have too many specialty functions that are overriding some of the basic ones.