Playing playlists in iTunes

I sometimes am sitting at my computer and just want to play all the tracks on a playlist from iTunes itself and I'll go to a playlist, maybe put it on shuffle, and press play, but only the first song plays - it does not immediately play the next song. I have gone through all the menus and the options and preferences and nothing I've clicked on has actually worked. I don't know if there's something I'm totally missing or if I'm just not good with decifering iTunes for some reason. If anyone knows what I mean and how to fix it please reply. Thanks. Sarah

Simply place a check mark in the little boxes by each of the songs you want to play.

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This is the simplest instructions that I have for "How to play a playlist in iTunes." I cannot believe it is this hard.
Select "Library"
Use ctrl+A or Edit>>Select All to select every song
Right click on the selected songs and choose "Uncheck Selection"
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"A) If generally everyone leaves their entire library checked at all times, what's the value of even having the checkboxes?"
They control not only what gets skipped in iTunes playback, but what gets skipped in syncing to an iPod, in burning a CD, and can even be used in building smart playlists. The default is, in fact, to have everything checked.
"B) I've been using the checkboxes to play individual albums. That's why I don't leave everything checked. Should I instead be building a separate playlist for each album? That seems redundant to marking the songs as being part of a particular album. "
Yes, that would be redundant, or at least silly
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I liked to old one better, but this one is still nice

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