Queues currently are given names from the album, artist, or playlists (and genres, etc.?) views that playback is started from. These albums, artists, or playlists could also share the same names. Having some way distinguishing that I’m playing from my “likes” or from artist “The Beatles” or album “Use Your Illusion” or playlist “Classic Rock” would be very helpful, perhaps by using the same chips used elsewhere in the app.
Ultimately, it’ll make the “multiple now playing queues” view more approachable as I’ll know what exactly I’m playing and that I’m sure to play the intended queue.
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Sneaking in a hot-link back to the queue source would be an appreciated touch as well.
Start a queue of all tracks from the artist “The Beatles”
Start a second queue of all tracks from the album “The Beatles” by the Beatles
Start a third queue of all tracks from a playlist named “The Beatles”
Now bring up the list of past queues–they’re all named “The Beatles” and you can’t distinguish what is what, unless you remember what order you last started each of these queues.
The problem is that the type is moving, the queue name correspond to what you start to play but you can add things to it after, so the name is not ultra relevant unless you rename it.
I think this is more an edge case than anything else here and should be pretty rare.