A more thorough example would have been helpful in trying to understand the problem
In trying to recreate this as you describe it (assuming manual mode), the only way I could get it to do that is if there are songs above the currently playing song in the playlist that do not show a status of "skip" (in other words they have a status of "ready" or "played"). This is normal.
If you need to have songs in the playlist above the currently playing song that have a status of ready or played, your only recourse I can see is to use the skip button to stop the currently playing song and then highlight the next song and play and then go back and "skip" the previous song if for some reason you want to save it, or have everything above the currently playing song in skip mode until you need it.
Sam
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