# When I play an album
**URL:** https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101
**Category:** Decibel
**Created:** [September 26, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101 "2022-09-26T19:55:27Z")
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### Author:  [@tlance](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/tlance)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101/1 "2022-09-26T19:55:27Z")
I usually only want to play that album. I do not want to have the next album begin playing automatically. This is when in the Artist view which is where I am mostly - doesn’t happen in Album view. Short of using a temp playlist, adding and subtracting albums, or switching back and forth between Artists and Albums views, I don’t see a suitable/easy way.
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### Author:  [@sbooth](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/sbooth)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101/2 "2022-09-28T14:53:54Z")
> [@tlance](#):
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> I do not want to have the next album begin playing automatically. This is when in the Artist view
The assumption is that the album view is used to find/listen to albums and the artist view to find/listen to tracks across albums. It sounds like this is not the workflow you prefer. I think with the correct filter you can show a specific album from an artist (using the FTS5 advanced syntax). Maybe there is the opportunity to simplify this by adding menu items for automatic query/filter.
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### Author:  [@tlance](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/tlance)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101/3 "2022-09-28T20:27:36Z")
Yep. My workflow is I get it into my head I want to hear something by \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. I search on the artist then browse the albums. I had just been staying in the Artist view. But I now see I can be in Albums view and search by artist name. Ta-DAH! (Rather I should say du-uh?) I have what I want and an album plays like I want.
Sorry, for as much as I’ve messed with all this I should have figured this out.
Trouble is that often times I don’t even know who I want to play. In those cases I go to Artist view then start scrolling all over the place, up & down until someone catches my eye. In this case I can not then easily get to that artist in Albums view. I can copy then paste in Search. What would be cool would be if highlighting an artist in Artist view would then show those albums when switching to Album view.
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### Author:  [@sbooth](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/sbooth)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101/4 "2022-09-29T01:42:00Z")
> [@tlance](#):
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> What would be cool would be if highlighting an artist in Artist view would then show those albums when switching to Album view
Any track(s) selected in the artist view will be preserved when switching to the album view, provided there is no album already selected.
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### Author:  [@tlance](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/tlance)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2022, 2:09am UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101/5 "2022-09-29T02:09:10Z")
Cool. Settled on an Artist/Album… Selected just the first track. Switched to Album view and there it was.
That worked for the first time. But subsequent selecting in Artist view had no change. That first album was still showing in Album.
I suppose that is because that first album is still selected in Album view. You say, “provided there is no album already selected.” So, how do I unselect that album? How to have no album already selected?
I must have had no album selected for it to have worked that first time. Right?
Well, upon quitting then restarting there is now no album selected but there must be an easier way.
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Another du-uh moment for me. Command-clicking the album on the left side unselects it.
Nice.
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### Author:  [@sbooth](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/sbooth)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101/6 "2022-09-29T12:47:40Z")
> [@tlance](#):
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> Command-clicking the album on the left side unselects it.
Another way to quickly deselect all is shift-command-a (⇧⌘A).
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### Author:  [@tlance](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/tlance)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101/7 "2022-09-29T17:59:39Z")
Thanks. Must be getting close to release?
This is now my sole player. It is that functional for my uses.
Not to say I would very much love to see:
> [@Some feature requests](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/some-feature-requests/83):
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> #1) Selecting albums sequentially. I must command-click to select albums. I wonder if, as is possible in Photos.app, it could be possible for “inclusive clicking” (my term for it) when all the albums are together in the UI. Please see first attached. I would want to choose all eight of “The Last Waltz” albums. In Phots.app to add some sequential pix you can select the first, hold the shift key, and select the last and all in between are also selected. Like any/most/all(?) Mac selection process, …
plus playlist sorting by release date
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.feisty-dog.com/t/when-i-play-an-album/101/8 "2022-10-29T18:00:33Z")
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