Do any of the following:

• Turn shuffle on or off: Click the Shuffle button .

  Shuffle is on when the arrows are blue .

• Shuffle albums or groupings: Choose Controls > Turn On Shuffle > “by Albums” (or “by Groupings”). iTunes plays the songs in the order in which they appear on the album or in the grouping, and then chooses another album or grouping at random.

• Repeat songs, albums, or playlists: Click the Repeat button to play a song or playlist over and over, until you turn off Repeat.

  

While listening to music, you can use Up Next to view and change which songs play next. For example, if you’re listening to a playlist, you can use Up Next to switch to an album after the currently playing song. When the album finishes, iTunes resumes playing the playlist.

• View the Up Next list: Click the Up Next button .

• Play a song in the list: Double-click the song.

• Add or move a song to the top of the list: Move the pointer over the song, click , and choose Play Next.

• Add a song or album to the list: Drag the item to the top-center of the iTunes window.

• Change the order of songs in the list: Drag the songs into the order you want.

• Remove a song from the list: Move the pointer over the song and click the Delete button .

• Remove all songs from the list: Click the Clear button at the top right of the list one or more times.

• See which songs played previously: Click the History button at the top-right of the list. To return to the Up Next list, click the History button again.

If you quit iTunes, the Up Next list is automatically saved for the next time you open iTunes.

1. Choose Music from the Library pop-up menu, and click Songs.

2. To play songs in alphabetical order by song title, artist, or album (or to sort by any other category), click a column heading.

   To select more categories, choose View > View Options.

You can set iTunes to fade each song in (increase it in volume) while the previous song is fading out, so there are no gaps of silence between songs. This feature is called crossfading.

1. Choose iTunes > Preferences, and click Playback.

2. Select Crossfade Songs.

3. To change the amount of time it takes for the current song to fade out at the end and the new song to fade in, drag the Seconds slider.

When iTunes plays consecutive tracks from the same album, crossfading is automatically turned off, with no fading between the songs (or tracks).

To play songs without fading, deselect Crossfade Songs.

1. Choose Music from the Library pop-up menu, and click Songs.

2. Deselect the checkbox to the left of the song.

   

1. Choose iTunes > Preferences.

2. In the General pane, choose Begin Playing from the “When you insert a CD” pop-up menu.

To prevent a song from playing, deselect the checkbox to the left of the song title.

To have iTunes open CDs without playing them, choose iTunes > Preferences, click General, and choose Show CD from the “When you insert a CD” pop-up menu.