From Cover Flow repeat / play album only?

Is there a way to have iTunes play/repeat just an album when selected via Cover Flow?
(It's probably just me not seeing the option.)
When one selects an album via 'Grid View -> Albums' only that album and its songs get selected. That's exactly what I'd like to have when selecting the album via Cover Flow.
However if that an album is selected via Cover Flow, this album and all songs following are listed.
Playing the album ends up playing everything... Yet I'd only like to repeat-play that album.
Checking/Unchecking all songs individually (even via shift-cmd) to select just the album songs for play is not my idea of a good solution.

There are two ways I know, but one is clunky and the other could be very time-consuming to set up.
1) Make sure all the tracks in your library are unchecked. Then, check only the tracks in the album you want to play. You can use Uncheck All to do the first part, and then select the album tracks, right-click on one of them and click Check Selected. Or you can click the checkmarks on individually. Then, if you select the first album track and click Play iTunes will play through all the tracks that are checked and then stop. I haven't tried doing this with repeat, but it should repeatedly play the album tracks in sequence.
2) You could build a playlist for every album you want to play through. Then, to play the album play the playlist.
Unfortunately, iTunes does not provide a "play album" control. Perhaps Apple sees playing albums through in this manner like CDs or (worse) vinyl LPs as hopelessly 20th Century and something to be discouraged?

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1121028&tstart=0
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