Songs won't continuously play

OK, I'm a techie and I can't figure out why when a song plays, it will not go onto the next song in my play list. This is really P###ing me off....can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong??
thanks!

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.
To check all, press ctrl & click in one of the little boxes or use select all, then right click in the selection and choose check all.

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Song won't play continuously

I am not sure what happened, as I do not think I changed any settings or did anything differently, but who knows, maybe I did change something. Now when I try to play songs from my ITunes Library or a playlist, it will play one song if I click on it, but will not advance to the next song...neither shuffling or otherwise. I have tried going through all settings to see if something looks off but I cant find anything. Any advice anyone has would be welcomed!

Chris CA wrote:
In discussion with him, we came to the conclusion that some setting has changed which has changed the behavior of iTunes,
He was being nice/politically correct by not telling you that you are wrong/mistaken.
You are being quite arrogant to make a statement about a conversation that you were never party to nor ever heard played back. I wish, in retrospect, that I had recorded this conversation for your benefit.
He said that the way I was using check-boxes to select which tracks were synchronized to my iPod to be correct. He also said these check boxes have a dual role and that was possibly why I am having a problem now. He **DID** agree that there was a potential conflict. It is both speculative and disingenuous, to say the least, that you can make a determination that he was being "politically correct" when you were not party to the discussion.
It has never worked this way which is why I wrote that you must have a version that no one else has.
Are you always this perverse, or does it come naturally?
I have written several times that iTunes would (previously) play continuously (all day and night if I didn't stop it) in the sequence that the tracks appeared in the list view of iTunes (according to the track sorting I had selected). Again, and I am repeating myself, this was **REGARDLESS** of whether or not the tracks were check-marked or not.
I have **NEVER** in many years of using iTunes used the check-boxes **UNTILL** I started using my iPod (about 18 months ago). Since then, I have **ONLY** used the check-boxes to indicate to iTunes what selection of tracks I wish to synchronize to my iPod. This is worked exactly as described in the iTunes help. I have no reason to change this ... it works.
I can assure you that, until recently, it played continuously, regardless of whether the checkmarks were checked or not. It would play my entire library continuously in whatever order I had sorted the library (as seen in list view) ... kind-of logical to me.
Perhaps, there is a misunderstanding.
Yes, I agree.
Yes, iTunes will continue to play if songs are checked and unchecked. It will simply jump over unchecked songs.
That is the case right now ... but it **NEVER** happened on **ANY** of the prior versions I installed over many years. All these versions have been downloaded from the Apple.com website, so you can assume that these are the same versions you and everyone else have downloaded.
Is you playlist shuffled? Did your songs perhaps get marked *Skip when Shuffling* (this also seems to have happened to few users when upgrading).
No. I **NEVER** used shuffling, that is until a visitor over Christmas set shuffling ON. As far as I know, this is the first time shuffling has ever been used on my system (certainly, I have never selected shuffling myself).
I was unaware of the *Skip when Shuffling* until you mentioned it (since I never used shuffling before), but have checked many tracks and none of the ones I checked have this set.
The problem I describe has occured SUBSEQUENT to iTunes having been set to shuffle mode. I seem to be unable to set it back into whatever mode it was in before. Maybe this is some kind of factory fresh (virgin) mode that can never be restored in any obvious way.
Certainly, there is a usability issue here ... go check Google with the search line "Why does iTunes only play one track" (or similar) and see what you get...
All the results show that the songs are unchecked and checking the songs results in iTunes playing continuously.
Some users, when upgrading to iTunes 8, have had all their song unchecked and could only play one song then it would stop. Cheking all songs "fixed" the problem.
Here's a post from March 2005.
http://forums.macnn.com/82/applications/247662/play-just-one-song-in-itunes/
"iTunes plays all songs of a list that are marked with the checkbox.
If you took the trouble to read that post (I did), you will see it is about a request to make iTunes stop at the end of the track it is playing, instead of continuing...
This is the reverse of my situation. My iTunes is behaving exactly as Ambrosa requests. I actually **WANT** my iTunes to behave in the way she describes her iTunes behaving.
So you either
a) Uncheck all songs in the list. It will stop playing after each song.
b) Filter the list so that only one song is visible.
c) Create a new list with only one song."
You are confusing this thread. This is **NOT** what I want iTunes to do. The above describes how to make it stop playing after each tune ... which is **NOT** what I want, but **IS** what is happening right now.
Here's another from Dec 2004
http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-49285.html
Yes, I understand this post.
This person **IS** using the checkmarks in a way that permits you to select which tracks in the iTunes library are played and which are not.
In my discussions with the Apple tech support guy, he described this to me. He also confirmed that these check boxes can **ALSO** be used to select which tracks are synchronized with my iPod.
In conclusion, he **ABSOLUTELY** agreed that these two **DIFFERENT** interpretations of the same checkbox could lead to conflict of functions in the iTunes user interface ... which appears to be precisely what is happening in my case.

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Recently the iphone wouldn't get new songs added to it during syncing with itunes.
I removed all music then readded it. It now has all songs displayed on it, but will only play some.
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It just skips to the next song when attempting to play. These songs played previously and are fine in itunes.
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yesterday morning itunes was working fine and i could play tracks on shuffle mode and continuous play but last night that was not the case.....now when i select a track regardless of what play mode i have selected itunes will only play one song and then stop so that now i have to keep clicking on the next track manually....its is very frustrating ....i have switched itunes off and relaunched it several times but the problem is still happening....
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thanks chris .....the problem has been solved and i now can take a breather from all that manual clicking :))) one more question what would i have pressed to un-mark all my tracks in that little box and how do i re-mark the little boxes for all tracks in one full swoop? thanks

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I DO NOT want continuous play of songs in Itunes ON MY IPHONE 4. How can I stop this?
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