itunes selecting song on playlist also selects on song list

The checked status of a track is a global property. If you uncheck a track it is unchecked everywhere. Unchecking a track has a number of effects, it causes a track to be ignored in track to track and shuffle playback, it may cause it to fall out of any smart playlist that matches only checked items, and it typically causes the track to be ignored for syncing. Typically I will uncheck tracks that I keep in my library for completeness, but would never want to hear by chance. E.g. bonus interview tracks, duplicates in mono when I've enabled the stereo copies, Christmas songs out of season, and so on.

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When you tell iTunes to play a song in a list based view the default action is that all checked songs that follow will be played until the end of the list is reached, unless you have repeat or shuffle engaged. In an album based view it plays the rest of the album. If shuffle is engaged a randomly ordered list will be produced that includes those tracks from the view that aren't marked as skip when shuffling. Once there are tracks playing there should be an Up Next queue that you can manipulate, either adding things to it, removing them, reordering, or clearing as needed. There are also right-click menu options that can be used to add a selection to the queue, either to play next, or add to the end.

Smart Playlists are playlists where the selection is determined by a set of rules rather that manually adding or removing tracks as you do with normal playlists.

tt2

Hello bwalker99,

Since no one has responded to your question yet, here are some questions that may help the community out to help get you an answer:

What type of playlist are you creating? Is this a standard or a Smart Playlist?

Are you trying to create a playlist that will then go back to your song list to play more songs?

Best regards!