I have my smart watch set up to tell me what song is playing, and if I open VLC with a song in the queue not only am I asked if I want to play the song again, my watch tells me the song is playing, even if it's not playing yet, which gets pretty annoying.
I usually use Pulsar+ to listen to music on my Samsung A53 (Android 13) but I'm giving VLC 3.5.4 a look since it's my usual media player on my Linux laptop. I don't see any way to clear the play queue for VLC Android short of playing a single song and then removing it from the queue from the triple ...