Playing Tracks one At a Time In ITunes

Hi.
I am a totally blind person who uses ITunes. I noticed that when playing a track from an album I have purchased from the ITunes store, it plays the rest of the tracks from that album as one playlist, rather than just playing one track at a time.
Is there a way to set ITunes to play one track at a time instead of as a playlist? If so, is there someone out there who is also visually impaired that uses ITunes for Windows and this forum that could possibly provide me with step by step instructions using key strokes on how to fix this problem?
Please let me know whenever possible. Thank you very much.
Rob Bendtzen

Beside the songs in iTunes are little check boxes. If songs are unchecked then they have to be clicked on individually to play them. So by unchecking you can play songs individually and not have them play one after another. Holding down the CRTL (Control) key and clicking beside any song in a list or library will toggle the check marks in the boxes on or off.

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