iPhone Apple Music—“Play Later” is now “Play Last”. Why?

[Mr$tone]

I have always had two options to queue a song in Apple Music—“Play Next” and “Play Later”. The later option queued the song to play after the Next queued song. The changed option to Play Last queues the song to play last instead of after the next song, which is a huge difference.
When did this change and why? I haven’t read about it anywhere.

 

[Frankied22]

Because whoever decided to make the queue system work in Apple Music is an idiot. Here is the problem with their implementation...I go to an album, I click on a specific song to play. Now the queue is filled with the songs on the album after that one. I go browse some other songs and find the next one I want to listen to. I do play next and that song plays next, which is great. But let's say I find another song I want to play after that song before it is finished...all I can do is play later. You would think it would play after the currently playing track but no, it dumps it the end of the queue which is still full of the remaining songs on the album the first song I played is from. It is pretty much impossible to quickly fill up a queue with songs one by one on Apple Music, and it's stupid.

 

[Mr$tone]

Because whoever decided to make the queue system work in Apple Music is an idiot. Here is the problem with their implementation...I go to an album, I click on a specific song to play. Now the queue is filled with the songs on the album after that one. I go browse some other songs and find the next one I want to listen to. I do play next and that song plays next, which is great. But let's say I find another song I want to play after that song before it is finished...all I can do is play later. You would think it would play after the currently playing track but no, it dumps it the end of the queue which is still full of the remaining songs on the album the first song I played is from. It is pretty much impossible to quickly fill up a queue with songs one by one on Apple Music, and it's stupid.

But hold on for a second. What you explain is the problem with the NEW Play Last option. Before, when there was a Play Later option, it was possible to build up a queue⏤just as I prefer.

I’m sure there was a Play Later option not so long ago that now has changed to Play Last and THAT is what causes the problem. (Or am I totally wrong?!?)

 

[AppleHeadPhx]

But hold on for a second. What you explain is the problem with the NEW Play Last option. Before, when there was a Play Later option, it was possible to build up a queue⏤just as I prefer.

I’m sure there was a Play Later option not so long ago that now has changed to Play Last and THAT is what causes the problem. (Or am I totally wrong?!?)

You are totally correct.

The new Play Next and Play Last is not working as it used to. As stated above, when you go into an artist/album to play a specific song, then back out of that album to find another song from another artist/album, it automatically adds the next songs from the FIRST artist/album you went into to play the first song. There seems to be no way to skip those other songs from the first artist/album.

So if you play song 1 from artist/album 1.
You go into song 2 from artist/album 2, you click on Play Next, it will play next while song 1 is still playing.
You go into song 3 from artist/album 3, you click on Play Last, it will add it to the end of the song list AFTER all of the songs from artist/album 1 play, it will not play after song 2. If you chose Play Next on song 3, its going to play after song 1 is done, if song 1 is still playing, which most of the time it is still playing. So song 3 won’t get played in the order you want it to.

So basically they need to bring back Play Later, which would put all of the songs in the order that you select them, as it was before.

Make sense?

I hope someone from Apple is reading this and can fix the issue.

 

[chris4565]

Fully agree that the queuing system is aggravating. The fact that it adds all of the remaining songs of an album to the queue when you play a song from it is really not ideal and makes quickly building up a queue a chore.