Can't recall which version of iTunes it was but before recently upgrading I'd click on the album artwork and the whole album would play. Now it just plays the first track unless I manually tick each song.

Is there a way to play the whole album without undue hassle?
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When you say manually tick, do you mean make sure the checkbox next to each song is selected, if so, songs must be checkmarked to play automatically.

If not, make sure that none of the songs are set to 'skip while shuffling' and that you don't have shuffle turned on.
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Yes, have to manually select songs. Before upgrading I never had to do it, I'd just click on the album cover and it'd play through all tracks in the album.

Shuffle is off.
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You fail at reading. Are the songs checkmarked or not?
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I fail at reading LOL

In Coverflow I used to just click on the album cover to play the entire album without selecting each individual track. Never needed to checkmark the songs.
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Well as it is now, make sure that the songs are checked marked.

In general through all iterations of iTunes, a song would not get played automatically if it weren't check marked, you'd have to start it manually. Perhaps there was some loop in coverflow that allowed this in a previous iteration, but if your songs are not check marked, this is the reason they are not playing continuously. Check mark them, and it will work.
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