Add an option to "stop after album" (similar to end-of-playlist actions)

[w-biggs]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When I listen to music, usually I find an album I want to listen to, play the album, and then once that album is over, find another album I want to play and play that album. This is what happens by default in other music players I've used (foobar2000, streaming services, iTunes ages ago.) However, in Tauon, what happens is that once that album ends, whatever is next up alphabetically (or however else the overall playlist is sorted) starts playing.

Because of this, in order to choose what album I want to play next and not have something random play instead, I need to manually add the first album I listen to to the queue before hitting play, hit play, then pay attention to how far along in the album I am so I can remember to add something new to the queue before the current album is over.

(This also brings up another frustration I have -- there's seemingly no good way to queue an album and play it in one go, but that's a less frustrating issue since it's just an extra few button presses.)

Describe the solution you'd like
The ability to have nothing play after the album I'm listening to ends.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Not really applicable, other than changing my own listening preferences.

Additional context
N/A

[C0rn3j]

Queues already support auto stop.

It seemingly breaks with single tracks though, and keeps playing the next song, but it does work for albums and stops at their end.

[w-biggs]

Queues already support auto stop.

It seemingly breaks with single tracks though, and keeps playing the next song, but it does work for albums and stops at their end.

Thanks! That seems to get me like 50% of the way there, but is there any way to have an album automatically queue up when you play it? Or is the only way to get this behavior to either right-click "add to queue" and then start playing the queue, or to start playing the album and then manually add tracks 2+ to the queue?

Edit: It also seems like I have to enable auto-stop every time I listen to anything -- is that accurate? Or is there any way this can be persisted?

As of now, it seems like the only way to just listen to a single album is to either:

1. Make a playlist every time
2. Add the album to the queue and then play the queue, instead of playing the album, and then enable auto-stop every time
3. Add tracks 2+ of the album to the queue, and then enable auto-stop every time

[C0rn3j]

You can try seeing if there isn't a shortcut for it in input.txt

[w-biggs]

You can try seeing if there isn't a shortcut for it in input.txt

There's a shortcut to add a selection to the queue (but not to play the queue), is that what you mean? That's still kinda the same thing that I'm saying -- there's seemingly no way to just listen to a single album that isn't 6 mouse clicks (or 1 shortcut + 5 mouse clicks.) Being able to easily listen to a single album on its own is pretty standard on any other music player I've used, which is why I felt like it was worthy of a feature request.

[Solarunit]

There are multiple ways how to add album to the playlist or queue:

1. Create empty playlist and drag and drop the whole album into it either dragging album title from the playlist or album art from the album covers list (press Tab to see it). If you have those albums already added to some other playlist.
2. You can add the whole album to the queue from the context menu or by pressing middle click (middle click also removes albums from the queue)
3. You can even copy paste the whole albums from one playlist to another. So if you need just one album to play - create new playlist, copy album and paste it. Need to add another album - same thing. So many options here: drag and drop, copy paste, or queue.
4. From the albums covers view you can play the whole albums by double click on it.

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Tauon is just heavily relies on playlists.

Tauon is a modern, streamlined music player app that's packed with features! An emphasis on playlists and drag and drop importing puts you in control of your music library!

[w-biggs]

4. From the albums covers view you can play the whole albums by double click on it.

This is what I've been doing, but this doesn't add the album to the queue, it just starts playing through the master playlist at that position and then continues onward when the album ends. All the other solutions are like 5 extra steps to simply play an album, which is why I filed this feature request. Perhaps a better version of the feature request would be a combination of:

1. Add an option to have the album play from the queue when playing via the gallery view
2. Add an option to have the queue auto-stop by default

Having these two options would fulfill this use case.

Also, as an aside, Foobar is completely built around playlists too but it has a solution for this (when you play an album, it creates a "Library selection (playing)" playlist, and the contents of that playlist get overwritten whenever you play a new album.) A little awkward, but it works. I think the queue feature in Tauon would provide a much more elegant solution if the above two things were possible.

[Solarunit]

This is what I've been doing, but this doesn't add the album to the queue, it just starts playing through the master playlist at that position and then continues onward when the album ends. All the other solutions are like 5 extra steps to simply play an album, which is why I filed this feature request.

I see. I haven't used Foobar much before and I almost never use albums art view in tauon. I just prefer create many playlists 🙂