Can't listen to just one album.

When I have the normal CD album in iTunes, it stops playing when the album is finished. It doesn't start playing the next album.
But if I have a box set of several CDs in iTunes in multi-album mode (with one album art for all six albums), then finishing one album causes iTunes to automatically start playing the next one.
I'm not using iTunes for background music. I listen intently to whole albums and I want that experience of having an album play from beginning to end and then stopping.
I don't want to have to create a playlist for every multi-album box set CD I've got in iTunes. Am I missing something? Shouldn't I be able to play a single album without it then just moving into the next one?
The only solutions I've seen elsewhere is to create a playlist or to use only column view for selecting albums. I'm really enamored with album art view and prefer to use stick with that. Am I out of luck? Can't imagine why Apple wouldn't program a button at each album in a multi-album box set so you can click that album and that album only ... not keep playing continuously.
-JOHN

How about trying the up next feature when playing your multi disc sets. Start play first track then select the rest of album and add to up next.
When you view what is on next up you can clear tracks that you do not wish to play after current album is complete. if you know which album you want to listen to next, you can add complete albun to up next.
Jim

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If I load a large box set of CDs into iTunes, I seem to have one of two choices for how to click 'play'. One is to click the master play button, which starts the box set on CD1, track1. The other is to click on one of the tracks in the box set - usually track1 if I want to hear that particular CD. The problem is that neither of these options allows me to listen to one CD by itself - with iTunes stopping after the CD is finished. It just rolls into the next CD and keeps playing.
Album view is cool in that it plays an album just like a CD - ie, iTunes stops after the album is done.
But the box set feature doesn't seem to allow this. Wherever you click from, it will play through to the end of the box set.
Has anyone figured out how to play just one CD in iTunes when it's part of a large box set?

Thanks for the reply, Curt. Sounds like you're aware of what I'm saying and that you're not aware of a way to do it either. Yep, I know about changing the album name and then having all 40 different albums from a boxed set in album view, all with the same artwork. That doesn't work for me.
I don't think boxset-view (or whatever we call it) is really effective unless there is both a master play button at the top of iTunes to play through the whole box ... AND dedicated play buttons next to each album - which will allow each album to be heard individually.
That, to me, is a common-sense feature that's long overdue. I guess there are not enough boxset users for iTunes developers to make that a priority.
I was just asking if anyone knew how to do it ... some button I'm not aware of or something.

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Wow!
Is that really so?
I'm not questioning your answer. Just want to make sure before I say OK and let it be. I had heard that iTunes/iPod forces you to do things their way, this is an example, I guess!
Thanks for the input.
I guess I'll just have to leave it be!
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