# Stop playing after current itemin queue

**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/stop-playing-after-current-itemin-queue/3519
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 8, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/stop-playing-after-current-itemin-queue/3519 "2023-10-08T16:18:25Z")
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### Author: ![Marco\_1](https://forum.antennapod.org/user_avatar/forum.antennapod.org/marco_1/32/2057_2.png) [@Marco\_1](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Marco_1)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/stop-playing-after-current-itemin-queue/3519/4 "2023-10-09T20:35:32Z")

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@ByteHamster: Thank you for taking up my question. I realize that this functionality really does not exist, so it would fit better to feature requests.

I prefer to fill my queue with a longer list of episodes I want to listen to. The time I have to listen varies greatly between short breaks (10 mins) up to train rides (a few hours). Usually, autoplay works best for me. There are times when I prefer to have an episode end as the end of my listening to anything as well. (This is, amongst others, my very personal preference for more ‘difficult’ topics where I might want to digest the contents before anything starts.)

> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> > [@Marco\_1](#):
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> > Disabling Continuous Playback is not a good option to achieve this behaviour for me.
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> Why is this not good for you?

From the view of the currently playing episode a sleep timer-based approach would be three taps (zzz → end of episode → close). Deactivating (five taps, scroll, five taps) and later reactivating (five taps, scroll, five taps) would be a much more cumbersome process.

> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> > [@Marco\_1](#):
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> > The only way I have found to accomplish this is by moving the current item to the end of the playlist.
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> Why is this not good for you either? There is a long-press option that can directly move an episode to the end of the queue

Granted, this is the easier approach (and the one I am currently using). Some thinking goes into the order of my playlist, so rearranging it just for this purpose is not that attractive for me. In addition, I think the sleep timer would simply be the logical place to look for this feature (since other podcast apps have it there, too.)

@Matth78: Thanks indeed for linking to this! I notice that I am far from the only one with this request, there have been quite some users interested over the years.

I’m new to the forum, is there a way to vote for feature requests? If so, I would like to vote for this:

> [@Sleep timer until end of episode](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/sleep-timer-until-end-of-episode/1214):
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> App version: 2.3.1 (from Google Play) Problem you may be having, or feature you want: I would love to be able to set the sleep timer until the current episode ends. Currently, I have to set a specific duration. Suggested solution: Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details:

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