Wildly disrespectful to any artist that ever lived. I’m all up for sharing alternatives that are good/better towards actual artists. Still evaluating my choices, but meanwhile this seems like the only and rather easy signal the streaming community can give as to spread the word if they agree (next to stopping your own subscription). Context: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/spotifys-ai-bet-more-of-everything-less-of-what-you-want/
In Spotify, add to queue adds to the end of the queue for me. But the queue is always ahead of whatever you were previously listening to. I prefer it to be this way, for me. The queue is the additional songs I want to listen to, ahead of the main thing ive selected, which I eventually want to return to.
When I want to listen to first this, then that, then that, etc., I “add to playlist” instead of add to queue.
Now, if I do have a queue already but I want to select a new song to jump to the front, I do have to go into the queue and move the song I want next to the next spot, so I’d appreciate a play next button also.
In apple music, does play next always become the next song, and pushes the other “play nexts” further back? And does add to queue add to the very end, or is the queue a special list in front of your main playback like in Spotify?
Yes exactly. Apple Music play next puts the song or album next always and add to queue to the end always. So the way you prefer is possible with play next, and how I prefer to queue after albums is possible with add to queue. It makes it much easier for DJing on the fly too when you find a song that would be perfect next. I missed this feature from Google Play Music for years while I used Spotify in its place once Google shut it down and folded into yt music.
It is still not too hard to DJ on the fly, but it does take a few more taps to move a song from the back of the queue to the top. IMO it encourages you to organize the play next queue every time you are adding a song though which is nice. A lot of times when I’m on aux I end up removing a bunch of songs from the queue because the vibe has changed since I added them, but if I leave it alone for awhile, it gets back to my playlist on its own.
I think in apple music I’d miss the ability to add to the end of the “play next” queue but ahead of the playlist, but I would like the play next button!