Remember when someone was asking about iTunes playlists? And remember that I responded that I had something like 100 of them? ita and others indicated that they have ways of listening to an album without having to make a special playlist for it. I've looked at one or two books on iTunes and it's not obvious to me how that's done. I imagine that if someone goes in the library and views by album that one can start playing that album. But doesn't it eventually go and play whatever's next in your library? I'd like to find a way to play an album in order and only that album without making a special playlist for it. Is that possible?

Put the album title in the search window. If it's a unique enough combination of letters you should end up with just the album you want. A search on "In My Tribe" gives me just that album, already in order (as long as shuffle isn't toggled on). A search of "So Peter Gabriel" gives me three extra songs, but I could just uncheck them if I don't want them to play.

If you are using an iPod you can browse by album.

Click on Library in your Source Window. Then click on the "Browse" button in the upper right of the iTunes winwos. You should now have a multipane view of your library. You can choose an artist in the upper left pane, and then in the right pane will be all the albums by that artist. Choose an album and it will turn up by itself in the lower pane.

Thanks. And what do you do when you want to burn a CD for someone of just that album?

Ooh, that's great, ND. I feel a bit stupid, but I've never used the browse button.

I knew I should've waited for someone else to answer.

Well, I appreciate your answer, aurelia. It's always good to know more than one way to do something. I still don't see the way to burn an album for someone without making a separate playlist for it, though...

I think you do need a playlist to burn a disc. I could be wrong (again).

You weren't "wrong" the first time, silly.

Sometimes I rather enjoy being wrong.