IOS 7 music app and functionality

Good morning apple community.
7am here in Australia, thankfully updated my iPhone and ipad to iOS 7 without a hitch at 4am.
I do love the new slick look of it all.
My question though is anyone else having problem with the apple music app not playing all songs one after the other.
Driving to work this morning decided to test the app out, played the first song and expected it to just play the next ones after the first had finished.
Nothing....
I had to physically go into the app and play the next song.
On the previous software it was easy to just select the repeat to play all songs using the circular arrow.
Can't seem to figure this out after sitting for awhile playing around with the app.
Any suggestions from anyone else who's been able to keep the app playing all songs?
Also how does everyone like the look of the changes in iOS 7 so far?
I quite like the look, it's simple but the timing to the home screen seems to lag a little. And took me forever to figure out how to shut down apps.
Thanks in advance

I think the whole ios7 upgrade is a little buggy, but that happened with the last major update. Apple will fix it eventually for now il just wait.
Your suggestion worked well when in all songs.
But when in iTunes when I search an artists and click on all their songs, it doesn't play one after the other and I can't seem to press next. Unsure why but it used to work before.
These are only minor issues for me.

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