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Your Music After Lights Out

A Midnight Album, a Phone in Bed and a Dead Battery

When an album ends, a music app can go on playing similar songs on its own.1 This is one of those nights, in Jun’s bedroom.

  • When an album or playlist ends, Spotify can carry on with similar songs. The switch for it is called Autoplay similar songs when your music ends.1
  • YouTube Music does the same when a queue runs out, with a switch of its own called Autoplay.2
Jun lying in bed under a slanted roof window, holding his phone above his face, a charger plugged in by the bed

Jun gets into bed with a new live album

A band Jun has followed for years put out a new album at midnight. He gets into bed with the volume low, opens Spotify and presses play. When the last track ends, a song he does not know starts, then another, from bands that sound a little like his.

Jun lying in bed with the phone held up high over his face, its glow on his cheek, the window showing stars

Jun switches to an old playlist in YouTube Music

Jun wants the band’s early songs instead, and the playlist he made of them years ago is in YouTube Music. He switches apps and puts it on. His eyes close during the third song. The playlist ends a little after one, and YouTube Music carries on with songs like it, one after another, for hours.

Jun sitting on the edge of the bed in daylight, reaching to plug his phone into the wall outlet

Jun wakes up to a dead phone

At seven the room is silent and the phone will not turn on. Jun plugs it in and waits. When it starts, YouTube Music is still open on a country song he has never heard, and the battery has a few percent in it.

At seven in the morning

Jun had taken the songs after an album for something music apps simply do. He had no idea Spotify and YouTube Music each kept a switch for it, Spotify’s under Playback in its settings and YouTube Music’s at the bottom of the queue behind the player.

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Jun gets into bed with a new live album

If Jun had used TrueTo, it would have gone into Spotify and YouTube Music and turned off autoplay in each for him.

Jun switches to an old playlist in YouTube Music

With Autoplay off in YouTube Music, the playlist would have ended a little after one, and the room would have gone quiet.

Jun wakes up to a dead phone

With the music stopped when the playlist ended, Jun would have woken up with most of his battery, and autoplay would have been his to turn on again in either app.

Autoplay

In Spotify, under Settings and privacy and then Playback, Jun can turn off Autoplay similar songs when your music ends.1 In YouTube Music, at the bottom of the Up Next queue that slides up from the player, he can turn off Autoplay.2

Sources

  1. Spotify, “Autoplay tracks,” Spotify Support, read October 12, 2026.
  2. Bonnett, Suzanne, “This One Setting Could Be Ruining Your YouTube Music Playlists,” BGR, August 26, 2026.