How to Stop Plexamp Adding The Rest of an Album When You Want to Hear One Song Only?

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I’ve gone to Settings > Autoplay and turned off Enabled and Add to Recent Plays as they are the only switches I have. Neither of those settings stops Plexamp from adding the rest of an album when I just want to play one song.

For instance, this morning I woke up and started singing Monkey Gone to Heaven and said to my wife, “Hey, you want to hear ‘Monkey Gone to Heaven’?”

She said, “Yes.”, so I put on Monday Gone to Heaven, but it added the rest of the album, Doolittle, to the queue, which I don’t want it to do.

How do I stop this behavior?

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To play a single track:

  • Mobile: long press on track, then “Play Next.”
  • Desktop: right-click on track, then “Play Next.”
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But that doesn’t start the track.

Plexamp doesn’t “let go” of whatever it was in the middle of playing, so I have to hit play and then skip or skip and then play?

EDIT: Ah, you just hit the skip button and it immediately starts playing the added track. That is a bit odd, but it does do what I want it to do.

To add to the original comment about adding the rest of the album, Plexamp will add the entire library listing after a track to the queue if I browse for a song in the library and chose play.

Why would I want that? Why does it assume I want it to continue to play everything after an individual song?

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You didn’t mention that something was already playing. If you start with nothing playing, the steps I gave you will play only the track you picked.

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Well, it wasn’t playing. It was a song that was stopped. I don’t ever see Plexamp without some song in its grasp. There is no Stop button to clear what it is holding onto. It either shows what it is playing or what you have paused.

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Long-pressing the pause button will stop the track, on mobile or desktop.

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Okay, that is helpful.

I still find the function where it adds every song to the queue that would be played after a single song to be a strange programming choice — especially so when the individual song is selected from the entire track listing.

Your solution, however, at least allows me to do what I want and that is what counts.

Thanks for the help!

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My older iPad, doesn’t have the ability to long press, how would I stop and clear a track from the player?

I do have long press on my iPhone, which works as you suggested.

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All iOS devices had the ability since their inception.

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That is true, however, there is no response on my iPad when I long press on the Plexamp control to “stop” a track.

In fact, now I’m looking at my iPhone as I type this and I’m long pressing on pause, and I get a haptic response, but the track doesn’t clear out of Plexamp as it did when I tried it earlier in this thread.

So now I am confused.

EDIT: Ok, if I’m connected to a Sonos device, the long press does not work. If I am playing a song out of the device itself (iPhone, iPad) then it stop/clears the track. This is all a bit unclear and confusing, but at least I understand why the two devices were ignoring the “stop” command — they were each connected to a Sonos speaker.

Of course, none of this explains why selecting an individual song and choosing to play that individual song at the song level would force Plexamp to play anything and everything that falls after that individual song.

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This is server/Plex behavior since the start.

Playing a single track can be accomplished by using “Play Next” action without anything currently playing. Any current play queue can be cleared by holding down the pause button, as mentioned above.

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