brent 1) I cannot get a song to play one right after another. Like an album, for instance. I only have two options: play same song in a forever loop, or shuffle. How to remedy?
You'll want to add some tracks to a playlist or the queue.
The queue is just the ordered list of upcoming tracks, FIFO style. You can see what's in your current queue by clicking on the little button to the left of the search bar.
You can add songs to playlists by right clicking them from the main list. You'll probably need to create a playlist - that can be done from the right-click menu as well. Then you can head to the Playlists tab (star button at the bottom of the screen) to manage your created playlists.
Usually, if I want to listen to a whole album, I'll double-click the first song to start playing, and then shift-click to select the other songs I want. Then I right click the selected group and add to queue. Sometimes I'll have some songs still enqueued from a previous listening session, so maybe I have to clear the queue first before adding what I want to hear to it.
For the most part things are pretty intuitive in my opinion (but of course that's just my opinion and may not reflect your experience). If you have other questions though, feel free to start a new thread.