How to play just one song at a time

I have been looking around in iTunes to see how in the heck I can tell it to only play one song at a time when I double click a song in my library (and not the next song). Anybody have any idea if this is even possible? Am I overlooking something?

If you don't use the checkboxes for any other purpose then ctrl+click any checkbox to check/uncheck all visible items. If all items are unchecked iTunes will play any track you double-click on and then stop. As and when you want to listen to an album or a playlist straight through you can make use of the Up Next feature which plays all tracks added to it regardless of checked status.
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How to play just one song?

How can I get my iPod to play just one musical piece--to not automatically go on and play every song after it continuously? I listen to classical and symphonies can be 40-60 minutes long. I would like it to stop after one so I can then choose another. Can I set it to stop after each selection?

What happens if you go into the artist or album lis and juts pick the one album it is on? I am fairly sure that when you play an album, it plays everything in the album and then stops.
So if your symphony is a single album, you should be able to pick the album and play it that way (vs. going in and searching for the song in the big song list).
Patrick

How can I get my iPad to play just one song from my playlist and then stop automatically?

I am a music teacher and I use the iPod on my iPad to play songs in class. I have a long playlist of songs to choose from in each class, and I want to play just one song at a time. I want to be able to start one song from my playlist and then walk away from my iPad and have it stop automatically when that song is over. (I know how to make it repeat the same song over and over, but tha'ts not what I need. I also know how to push "pause," but I don't want to have to walk away from the children to do it.) How can I make it play one song from a playlist at a time?

I don't believe that there is a way to do that except, perhaps, creating a separate Playlist for each song.
Suggestions for features to Apple at: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

How do I change the start/stop time for multiple songs not just one song at a time?

How do I chnage the start/stop time for multiple songs not just one song at a time?

I don't think you can in iTunes.
Multiple editing in Get Info does not offer an option to change start/stop times.

Some albums won't play entire album--just one song at a time.

I just downloaded the new version of iTunes. Now, on some albums, I can only play one song at a time. Any idea why some albums play through without a problem and others don't?

go to albums
select all albums
right click one (as this will be the same as right clicking all of them)
go to the bottom of the pop up munu
click "Check Selection"

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After 2 weeks of the iPod feature of my iPhone working just perfectly, last night I discovered it will no longer go through a play list. No matter what I do, it plays only one song, repeatedly - either a song I choose or a song selected randomly by hitting Shuffle. Shuffle only chooses the first song randomly, after which that song plays over and over unless I manually choose another. I deleted my playlists this morning, rebooted iTunes, re-synced my playlists to the iPhone, same problem. Other than having to go through an entire Restore, are there any other options? This actually occurred out of the blue, NOT after a re-sync with the computer, therefore NOT caused by the iTunes update to 7.3.1.
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THANK YOU!!! I never would have found that myself because I don't even look at albums let alone play whole albums. My playlists are favorite songs from here and there and rarely more than one or two from any particular album. I don't know how that got changed since I have never looked at an album before, didn't know there were time and shuffle markers. I must have gone bump in the dark... so thank you again!

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Recently acquired a BB Curve 8330 (OS 4.5.0.127) running on a Bell Enterprise server. I bought a SanDisk 16G Media Card. The card is formatted, the songs are there (about 20 albums) I can view, scroll, choose shuffle, choose an album, choose a artist or any other option. No matter what I try, it will only play one song at a time. Once the song plays, it just stops and stays at the end of the song. Periodically, the entire device will shut down and restart. I saw somewhere else in the forum to pull the battery, wait 1-2 minutes, didn't work. There was also a post to try to downgrade the software from 4.5.0.127, but really, is that necessary?
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I was having the same problem. I found out the CD's that I ripped were not in MP3 format they were in windows media audio format. I was able to load them to my phone and they would play one at a time or when a song got to the end it would restart my phone. Replaced WMA files with MP3 files and it fixed the problem. Hope this helps.

Playing only one song at a time

I know this is unusual, but is it possible to only play one song at a time on an iPod?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1475338&tstart=0

How do I play just one song?

I have a lot of Classical music. I imported whole pieces and joined them so they appear as one song.
If I chose any song in a playlist it will play that one and when it is finished it will go to the next.
I would like to play one song and then have iTunes stop. Is this possible, or do I have to create a playlist with just the one song?
iTunes 8.1

Unchecking songs can create other issues down the road. Easier method is this: select the song and use Command + Shift + N. This create a new playlist with the single song. (The playlist will also appear in your Source list...so if you don't want to keep it, make sure to delete it later.)
You could also control-click the song and choose Show in Finder, then play from there. There may be other methods which are easier, these are just ones that I know of.

Who wants to play just one song?

Does anyone know why I can only play one song in iTunes now? It doesn't matter which playlist, or in the main library, it plays one song and then stops!!!
Shuffle doesn't matter, repeat doesn't work, just when I needed iTunes the most it acts like its windows software!

Do you have check marks in the box to the left of your songs' name? If not, itunes will ignore each song unless you select it by clicking on it.
To check all songs in your music library or a playlist, hold down the "command" key while clicking the check box..

Playing just one song

New to this so please excude me! iTunes was behaving very well until earlier today when it started playing just the highlighted track and not continuing through the rest of my library as before. Any ideas on how I can get back to the 'runthrough' mode?
Cheers, rachiet.

Have the tracks become unchecked? iTunes will skip unchecked tracks, so if they're all unchecked, iTunes will play one and then stop. If this is indeed the case, re-checkmark the tracks - control-click on any checkbox on a Windows system will select or unselect them all - and you should then have continuous playback.

Can you tell me why we play only one song at a time and stop now???????

OK....I will try to stop seething and write clearly. DL'd ITunes V8.0 which ran great for about a week. Now when I try to play from Music library it will play the first song then stop. If I try to advance using the forward button it stops playing as well. This only happens in the Music Library. Playlists function as normal. Please tell me this isn't another Apple "Enhancement". Ugh.

Are the little checkboxes to the left of name ticked? If not iTunes will not advance to the next track as iTunes skips unchecked tracks.
To check all, press ctrl & click in one of the little boxes or use select all, then right click in the selection and choose check all.
Usually this affects both the music library and playlists so I am not sure about it.

Is it possible to play just one podcast at a time?

Since upgrading to the latest iTunes (on a Snow Leopard machine), I can no longer listen to just one podcast. After one finishes, it goes on to whatever it thinks is next, meaning I cannot start a podcast to listen while going to sleep, have to return podcasts that began without my intention back to unlistened, etc. This has never happened before and I've checked all of the settings.
Thanks for any help.

This irritating 'facility' was introduced in iTunes 11, and has caused endless complains. The easiest workaround is to create a playlist and drag just one episode to it, and play it from there. You can then delete it from the playlist (this will not delete it from the Library).
Another method is a neat AppleScript invented by Alexander Ford:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23399537#23399537
(if it doesn't go there directly it's the latest entry in the thread at present.)

IPod touch 4th gen with software 4.3.3 - podcasts continue to play through. I want to play just one podcast at a time. Is it possible? If so, how?

Any suggestions?

Ran the diagnostic tool and it found a problem and 2nd time it passed , then in the help menu it has just let me update the software to 1.1.5. saying that is the latest.?
Has just let me name the ipod and is downloading all Music and photos.
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Chp Play lists - how to play only one chapter at a time

CS4
The setup:
2 timelines
1 menu
1 chapter playlist
3 buttons (all, wedding, reception)
I'm not seeing how to make the DVD return to the main menu after playing chp 1 (Button 2 [wedding]), if user clicks button 2 which is linked to chapter 1 thru a playlist on timeline 1.
That is, I can set the end action of timeline 1, I can set the end action of the playlist, and I can set the end action of ch1 by way of the playlist panel.
It appears ch1 wants its end action set to start playing chp2 (button 3 [reception]) to provide thru play if the `All' (button 1) has been used.
How then can cause chapter one to be played and at the end return to main menu instead of going an to button 3 as It would if user had hit button 1.
(all).
What I end up with is a situation where if user wants to view only chapter 1 by hitting button 2 (wedding).... it still continues on to button 3 (reception) at the end.
Since I needed this project done now... I took the hardway around and ground out another piece of video containing only chapter 1.
Now I get the result I was after, but it seems very inefficient. Ch1 on in the playlist is just setting there unused and I suspect there is a smarter way to do it.
To cut down on the amont of data on the DVD, I guess I could have gone ahead and made a piece of video contaiing only ch 2 (button 3 [reception]).
But still that too, although I've saved considerable data being written to DVD, it still seems pretty inefficient. And I suspect the playlist is provided just so I don't have to do it this way.
Can anyone outline how to deal with multiple chapters so that the DVD returns to the main menu after chp1 or any other chapter that has chpters following it. (If user so desires)?

Stan Jones wrote:
The chapter playlist will be one chapter, which you appear to have set up.
Set the END ACTION of that CHAPTER PLAYLIST to last menu.
Yes I have. Are you saying that if I set the End action of ch_PlayList to last menu, that then when a user hits button 2 which is linked to chp1 on the playlist, that play will stop after chp1 (button 2) has played?
As apposed to what I have done as descripted... setting Ch_plylist end action to Main menu/default.
In that setup pressing buttob2 ends up playing right thru the whole thing rather than stopping at the end of ch1.
PS - I'm busily coping a project to a test area now, but how can test that without having to play clear thru chp1 to see what happens?
OH Wait.. are you saying NOT to include chp2 in the playlist?.... ahhh now that makes sense.
Thanks for the input.

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