iOS: Queue doesn't play next song

[AlohaBroha]

The queue doesn't play songs next. ever. I have to manually switch to the songs in my queue... What in the world is the point of a queue then? I'm so close to switching back to Spotify. At least their app is magnitudes more intuitive. "Play next" must be an extremely difficult feature to code... Oh wait, it's in every single other music app and desktop program I've ever used... Hm. 

Please add a Play Next button!!! I'm wasting my money for somewhat better music discoverability but it's driving me insane to operate this horrible app!=

How hard is it?!

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[LeonPandora]

@AlohaBroha Welcome to Community!

Sorry to hear you've been having troubles. Could you tell me a bit more about what you're experiencing?
1. Is this happening when you try to listen to your playlists or stations?
2. If you're listening stations, is this happening after you've listened the last song on that station?
3. Or is it happening after each song?

Lastly, please provide the name of the playlist(s) or station(s) this is happening.

I look forward to hearing back.

[AlohaBroha]

Naw, I know about the station behavior with the queue, I've read through the forums. Dozens of others have complained about this lack of function. I know that it functions properly while listening to playlists, but why can't we "play something next" on a station and then resume the station after that track? And most Pandora users play stations, not playlists, so why this feature doesn't exist, I have no clue.

What we are asking is to change the queue function to ALWAYS play what's next... well... next. So we don't have to manually switch back and forth between queue and stations. 

My inquiry isn't something that can be solved by describing to me "step 1, step 2", or with corporate psuedo-caring. 

It's a bug/bad-coding/lack-of -feature that needs to be implemented in code, with your developers. 

I would have submitted a ticket but I can't find any bug report/ticket feature on the app or website.

I'm not alone, many have defected back to Spotify for this reason. 

Please do not respond with a list of troubleshooting instructions, It's not a problem the users can troubleshoot on their end.

[MariaPandora]

Hi @AlohaBroha , thanks for following up!

This is great feedback regarding additional features for the queue.

Currently, it's not possible to limit how long a station plays while in the queue, since stations are designed to play continuously. So if you add a station to your queue, you’ll need to manually select the next item when you’re ready to move on.

I've passed your feedback along to our engineering team for consideration in future updates to the Pandora app. 

You may also want to check our Idea's space and upvote this one with a ❤️ if you'd like to see it implemented:  Ideas: Queue next track regardless of playlist or station currently playing.

Have a nice day!

[Thebigslick]

Like above poster 90% of the time any station I start will paly a few songs & just freeze, can skip, cant do anything but close the app & restart... just to do the same thing many times through the course of the day.