Play one song and stops

I've had i-tunes for awhile and never had any problems.I listen to i-tunes on mydesktop at work. Yesterday I cleaned up my library (got rid of songs I did not want) now all of a sudden I play one song and thats it. I have to go back to the library and click on the next song. Any suggestions?
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I figured it out! each song has to have a check mark in front of it. Some how when I was editing things the song were all unchecked. Hold the 'CTRL" key and click one song and all the songs are automatically checked.

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