Playback no longer continuous - only one song at a time

I used to select a playlist and then hit play, and I'd get playback of random songs continuously. Now I have to select a song to get it to play, and only one song plays. I've tried adjusting the shuffle commands and turning shuffle on and off, but no luck. Any suggestions on how to restore continuous playback, either randomly (shuffle) or continuously (album or playlist)?

Make sure all the tracks have the box checkmarked. To check them all at once, hold the CTRL key and check any one of the boxes.

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

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I can only play one song at a time! If I want to listen to music, I double-click on the song. After the song is finished, the next song doesn't play. Even when the song is playing and I skip to the next song, the music stops. This is really annoying. Can someone please help?

The songs have become unchecked.
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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.
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Playback no longer continuous - only one song at a time

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