Apple Music keeps playing after end of playlist?

[Janichsan]

Since recently (a few weeks) I noticed that whenever I finish a playlist in the Music app, simply other songs not in my library (but similar in style/genre, so probably Genius selected) are played. This happens even when I limit the selection to songs downloaded to my iPhone.

Did I miss something? Is this some new feature? Is there a way to turn that off?

 

[TehFalcon]

turn shuffle off same thing was happening to me

 

[Janichsan]

Ah, it wasn't shuffle, but an "Endless" playing mode. I must have turned than on without noticing it.

 

[KeithJenner]

Same thing has started happening to me in the past couple of weeks. Shuffle isn't on, as I play through a playlist rather than shuffling it.

Not a problem, but certainly something that has started recently.

 

[Janichsan]

Same thing has started happening to me in the past couple of weeks. Shuffle isn't on, as I play through a playlist rather than shuffling it.

Not a problem, but certainly something that has started recently.

Make sure that infinity symbol is deactivated. This function apparently was added with iOS 14.

 

[gwhizkids]

Yes, the infinity thing was added with iOS 14. Once you complete a playlist it will auto fill your queue with songs of the same genre as those in your playlist.

Intended feature, not a bug.

 

[KeithJenner]

Make sure that infinity symbol is deactivated. This function apparently was added with iOS 14.

Thanks, yes it was active, so that was what caused it.

 

[Eso]

I always thought the default should be “keep playing the songs on this playlist until I choose something else to listen to” (shuffling as appropriate). I can’t even imagine why anyone would think to make it work differently.

 

[KeithJenner]

I always thought the default should be “keep playing the songs on this playlist until I choose something else to listen to” (shuffling as appropriate). I can’t even imagine why anyone would think to make it work differently.

It depends what you use playlists for. The most common use is probably a selection of songs to shuffle, in which case I would agree with you.

Personally, I most often use them to line up a few albums to listen to so that I don't need to keep selecting a new album. I rarely shuffle music, as I prefer to listen to full albums. When the playlist finishes my preference is for the music to stop and then I select something else to listen to.

It wasn't a problem for it to randomly play stuff at the end of a playlist, as I just manually stopped it, but I didn't know why it had suddenly started doing that. I've switched it off now.

I'm not disagreeing with your point, just giving an example of why my preference is for it to work differently.

 

[Wizec]

Yes, the infinity thing was added with iOS 14. Once you complete a playlist it will auto fill your queue with songs of the same genre as those in your playlist.

Intended feature, not a bug.

Sadly some features are themselves bugs like this one. The fact that it was auto-enabled was one of the dumbest Apple has every pulled.

I put on my night lullabies playlist, fell asleep, then was tormented all night by Apple’s stupidly bad prediction algorithms playing energetic music, wrecking my night’s sleep.

 

[Janichsan]

I always thought the default should be “keep playing the songs on this playlist until I choose something else to listen to” (shuffling as appropriate).

That's effectively the combination of shuffle and repeat, the other two buttons.

 

[Eso]

I'm not disagreeing with your point, just giving an example of why my preference is for it to work differently.

What would you think if instead of stopping, it started playing the first albums again? At that point, of course, you could select different albums to play if desired.