Is It Possible to "chronologise" the music on my iPod?

[bigjohnny7]

Hopefully you might be able to help me.

I'm relatively new to iPod - I've had a black 80GB for a couple of weeks now. I've now put all my CDs onto it and one small thing is bothering me.

If I click into Music then Artists, it will produce a list of all the bands on my iPod. If I then choose, for example, The Beatles, it will then produce a list of albums which are presented in alphabetical order (rather than chronological order, which I would prefer). This would mean that if I selected to play All, it would play them all in alphabetical order rather in order of release.

Is it possible to chronologise (if such a word exists) my music? I was thinking that I would just go and edit the name of the albums so I would have, for example, 1969 Abbey Road, 1970 Let It Be, etc.

However, this wouldn't always work with bands that have released more than 1 album per year (as they would then be listed in alphabetical order which may not necessarily be correct).

I'm sure there's probably a really easy way of getting around this? Does anybody have any ideas?

 

[oobujoobu]

You could organise the albums like this (assuming its UK albums you have)-

01 Please Please Me
02 With The Beatles
03 A Hard Days Night
04 Beatles For Sale

etc.

This is how I used to have mine organised, and it does the trick nicely.

 

[bigjohnny7]

Excellent. Thanks oobujoobu.

It works a treat.

 

[studogvetmed]

Since iTunes got an option to sort "album by year", I'm hoping that such an option comes to the iPod. Until then, you have no choice but to edit tags as has been suggested.