Playing a single album in iTunes

Is there a way to have iTunes stop playing after an album playlist (.m3u file) is done?
Right now when I click on an .m3u the album starts playing in the iTunes library, and when the album ends iTunes continues on to the next song in the Library. I can understand that when you drag-and-drop an album's files in the Library there is no differentiation between those and the rest of Library's files. But I would think that specifying a single album with the .m3u would let iTunes know that it should play only those files. Sometimes I just want to load an album, listen to it and be on my merry way.
I realize that I could simply put the album in its own iTunes playlist or hit the stop button, but I'm just curious whether this is possible in iTunes. I'm also very lazy.
15" MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

In iTunes, select Library - Music.
At the top right of iTunes, select one of the first two buttons (List or Grouped with artwork) above View.
Go to menu View -> Show browser.
Use the top 3 boxes above the music to select a genre, artist, album or combination thereof.
To make multiple selections, press the Apple/Command key while clicking.
Press play. The only thing to be played will be the music shown below.

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Playing a single album....and that's it!

Occaisionally, I want to play a single album and not have to listen to the songs that follow it in the music library. I want to have the experience of walking over to my old record collection, pulling down John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, putting it on the turntable and listening to it. Then if I want to listen to something else, I'll go pick something else. OK...I am obviously ignoring the annoying part about turning the record over half way through but let's just forget about that.
Is there a way I can listen to a single album in its entirety and then have iTunes stop playing? If there isn't, Apple should come up with a way. Help me. I'm old fashioned.

Show the Browser (View menu -> Show Browser). You will be able to select an album there, and when you play it, iTunes will play just those tracks and then stop.

Play a single Album/CD?

I know there must be an easy/simple answer...
but - how do i play a single album - in album order - just as though i'd put the CD in the HiFi - as we used too?
I simply want to play one album and then for iTunes to stop!
thanks
ianjh

In the old analog days you had to turn on your stereo and turntable, go to the record shelf and pull out the album and place it on the turntable, move the tonearm and flip the record over at the end of side one. Quite a few steps.
Now you have to turn on your computer and speaker system and open iTunes. Instead of going to th record shelf use the Browse fature to find your album. Click on it and it will be the only thing showing in your library. Hit Play and only that album will play. If repeat (arrows in a circle in the bottom left) is off (black) the play will stop at the end of the album.
Try this: with only that album showing highlight all the tracks, right click and choose Add To Party Shuffle. The album will play exactly the way it shows up in the library and when it finishes Party Shuffle will continue playing (checked songs) from what ever playlist is selected. You can delete what's next in party Shuffle and add more albums by the same method.
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When playing my i-tunes library through my hi-fi via Airport Express, how can I get i-tunes to play a single album and then stop, without continuing on through my entire library. It's a problem that doesn't occur when I'm listening through my i-pod.

When playing my i-tunes library through my hi-fi via Airport Express, how can I get i-Tunes to play a single album and then stop, without continuing on through my entire library? It's a problem that doesn't occur when listening on my i-pod.

Hey everyone in Apple world!
I figured out how to fix the flashing yellow screen problem that I've been having on my MBP! Yessssss!!!
I found this super handy website with the golden answer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
I followed the instructions on this page and here's what I did:
Resetting NVRAM / PRAM
Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
I went through the 6 steps above twice, just to make sure I got rid of whatever stuff was holding up my bootup process. Since I did that, my MBP boots up just like normal. No flashing yellow screen anymore!!
(Note that I arrived at this solution when I first saw this page: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570?viewlocale=en_US)
Let me know if this works for you!
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HOW TO PLAY A WHOLE ALBUM IN ITUNES?

HOW TO PLAY A WHOLE ALBUM IN ITUNES?

Make sure Preferences, General, View (Edit > Preferences on PC) "Show list checkboxes" isunchecked.
Albums will then play normally then by just clicking them in Songs or Albums views.

Playing a single album on repeat in iTunes 9

Have been encountering one major issue with iTunes 9 so far, regarding playback of a single album from an artist, of which you own many albums.
With the new Browse window on the left, showing Artists is nice, the merged album + track listing on the right does not allow you to select a single album and listen to only it on repeat. The existing action will cycle through all songs by an artist, and not a specific album you wish to listen to.
This is very frustrating, and a very questionable change from previous versions, as well a every other competitor's music playback applications.
In the previous versions i had removed the Genre browser from browse via some trick i read somewhere. Is there a secret trick to getting the album browse pane back?
It may deserve a separate topic, but when changing views from List, Grid, and Cover flow, it does not remember what artist you had browsed to when returning to List. Switching to cover flow and Grid work, but upon returning it focuses on the album and not the artist.

retracting this, read some other nonrelated posts and fixed the problem.
View menu > Column Browser > List of items.
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Stupid Me, I can't figure out how to play a single album

I listen to my iPod via the app on my iPhone4. I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to shuffle play automatically just the songs on one album. I'll be happy to just play the songs on a single album sequentially.
Thanks.

You say shuffle then say sequential so not sure which you want.
If you are stuck on shuffle it is because you tapped shuffle at some point which turned the option on.
Go play any song. When playing and you see the album art tap center of screen on the art and another set of controls will come down.
That set of controls has Genius, Shuffle, Repeat, Progress etc to let you toggle on and off things such as Shuffle (blue is on, white is off).
There is also a link to the iPhone manual in your Safari bookmarks or you can Google search "iPhone Manual" to find the PDF via computer to read up on the controls of the iPod player.
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Play count in album view itunes 11?

I was wondering if there was a way to show your play count in album or artist view? Such as if you click to expand your album, where it says the time of the song is there a way to get it to list the play count too?
I use play count a lot and this would be very helpful.
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Sort of works. Albums in a subfolder do not sort correctly with the rest - they show up at the end of the rest, but at least it is better than it was. The problem is that by default the menu bar does not show up and it took a while to figure our how to turn it on.
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How do I disable "play on single-click" from iTunes search?

Just downloaded iTunes 12.1.1.4 (Windows 8, 64-bit) in order for it to sync with my iPhone.
I see that now when I search for an artist, clicking on the album (or any search result, ***???) will start playing that album automatically. I don't want to play it. I want to look at it. When I want to play, I double-click.
Can someone please explain how to get this back to the way it was? (Single click to view, double click to play.) It's driving me nuts.

Plug in your iPhone. Choose your device in iTunes, then
1. Choose the music tab
2. Uncheck the music you don’t want from Playlists, Artists, Genres, and Albums
3. In Manually Added Songs, choose the songs you don’t want and click Remove at the bottom right corner
4. Click Apply and you’re done!!

Playing a single album on shuffle

Can someone let me know how I can play one album on shuffle in itunes when I have multiple albums by that artist? I know this is probably really simple but all I seem to be able to do is shuffle through that artist's entire catalogue...

CMD/B will bring up the Browser, as will View/Column Browser/Show Column Browser. Once the Browser is open clicking View/Column Browser again will give you more options such as browser columns across the top or down the left side, and which items you can browse through (genre, artist, album, composers and groupings)
After using this a few times you will see this is an easy way to navigate your library and it's not as difficult as it sounds.
Or, you highlight all songs, right click and choose Uncheck Selections, then highlight only the songs in the album, right click and choose Check Selection. Then make sure Shuffle is on and click Play.
The only way to play anything with only ONE click is to click the play button. You can select a song with one click, but then you would have to make a second click to play it.
Selecting and de-selecting songs will always take a few mouse clicks. Some methods take less than others. And then there are keyboard shortcuts...
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How to disable Soundcheck for a single Album

Hello,
Soundcheck option in Preferences works pretty good for me, since I shuffle from classical to metal.
But, inside a single album, say, an Opera which is meant to be fully played w/out pauses, I don't want the volume to be leveled throug Pianissimo and Forte tracks.
Question:
Is there any way to disable Soudcheck for a single Album so iTunes does NOT calculate peek levels on its tracks and does not set gain/loss accordingly?
Or do I need to turn off Soundcheck on the iPod when I want to listen to that particular Album?
I have tried "Volume level" slider but it sets the overall volume gain of the Album and not the relative level between tracks. Also the "pauseless" option (sorry, I use a localized version) is no solution.
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Is there any way to disable Soudcheck for a single Album
No.
Or do I need to turn off Soundcheck on the iPod when I want to listen to that particular Album?
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Merging albums in iTunes

I have uploaded CDs 1 to 4 of a large compilation on my Macbook Pro. The last 3 CDs appear as a single album in iTunes while the first one is standing alone. I would like to merge all 4 CDs into a single iTunes album. How do I do that?

Just make sure all tracks have the same album title (and it has to match exactly; even an extra space will look like a different title to iTunes). For more details and options, see:
http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
Regards.

Multi disc importing to single album heading ?

I have an album that has multi cd's. how do i get itunes to recognize it as a single album?

iTunes should see it as one album if the artist name and the album name are the same for both CD's.
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Mac 10.8.5 itunes 11.1.1 Sometimes when I drag an album to my desktop the songs fallout of the album leaving me with individual songs not a single album that I can click to play the whole album.

Sometimes when I drag an album to my desktop the songs fallout of the album, why? This leaves me with individual songs not a single album icon to click? Can you help me get a consistent single button that I can click to play a whole album? [email protected] mac OS 10.8.5 iTunes OS 11.1.1

I'm confused. Are you trying to play the album FROM your desktop?

How do I delete duplicate songs, but keep a link in their original albums to the single copy of the song left, so it will play in each album in sequence as if it were still there?

Greetings!
After importing my 300 or so CDs into iTunes, I found I have tons of duplicate songs.
Example: I have a song that came in a original album, then in again in a "Greatest Hits" album, then again in a "Hits of the 80's" album, and again in a soundtrack album. I have now have 4 copies of the exact same song.
How do I delete duplicate songs, but keep a link in their original albums back to the single copy of the song left, so it will play in each album in sequence as if it were still there?
I don't think this currently exists, but as my library keeps growing the duplicates keep growing. It would be nice if Apple sees this and adds a way to link songs to multiple albums.
I don't want to create a custom playlist for every album that has a duplicate song or two (I'd have dozens of playlists) - thought about fixing it that way but not really practical.

To my knowledge, there is no way of doing what you want. The only workaround is to create playlists for the other albums containing the track, but that isn't practical for most people.
You could provide Apple with feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Playing a single album in iTunes

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