How do I stop Sonos “auto playing” after it plays what I asked for?

It’s probably adding “song x” to the playlist and then resuming the playlist when song x finishes. Clear the playlist first. Then play song x. 

I never want this to happen. I want to turn the queue off. Is there no way to avoid having the extra step of having to say “replace queue”? No “Always replace queue” setting somewhere?

That’s exactly what I always tell my wife, and then she suddenly starts throwing the dishes at me. Glad I’m not the only one with that thought 😂😂

Hi. What source are you playing?

Apple Music, my local music library served off a Synology, Soundcloud—the issue is independent of the source.

I don’t think there is any other way of doing this from the app.  I don’t use anything Apple, but can you not just say ‘Siri, play {insert required song from Apple Music)”.  This certainly works for me with Alexa and Amazon Music.

Spotify also does this. I actually like it.

In fact, Sonos used to just play one track and stop.  But after a number of customer requests complaining that it should carry on (like Spotify) and play further tracks, a change was made.  It just proves that you can’t please all the people all of the time.

I hear screams of ‘give us the option’.  I think Sonos has always ben wary of lots of options.  Each one sounds like a trivial addition in itself, but which of the potentially hundreds do you build?

There are indeed two types of people, I think: people who care about music in and of and for itself—these are the people who like to listen to an album from start to finish in order, and then want to choose what album to listen to next. This is me, and everyone else who preferred the “do what I tell you and then stop” behaviour.

Then there are people for whom music is simply background ambience. These people listen to “Daily Chill” playlists and want Sonos to behave like an FM radio and just keep the ambience going until they tell it to stop when they leave the house. Despite these peoples’ lack of taste they have unfortunately won.