Restraining audio player smartphone apps

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Since adopting a cellphone with Android Nougat I have been wrestling somewhat with audio player apps. Admittedly, I think with Marshmallow I was using some file manager to play audio. My issue is that I want to see a list of songs, choose one, have it play, then have nothing further happen until asked. Whether through fat fingers or experimenting with unintuitive gestures or what, I would often inadvertently get the app into a state in which it would then play another song automatically with no obvious way to revert to an empty queue.

Perhaps rather like the go-via-episodes trick to which emperor introduced me for BBC iPlayer, I have now found the clear queue option in both the relevant apps I seem to have, being Google Play and Phonograph. The similar trick is to first have a playing song fill the screen then one can pop up a menu with that option.