Displaying Playlist on iPod by Artist

Hi there,
does anyone know, if it is possible, to display a playlist on my iPod by Artist. As long as I use iPods, they only show the song titles in the playlists. that's awfull if you use a intelligent playlist (example: for the last 3 months) and you have some albums in it. i want to see the titles in the playlist by artist or by albums not by titles ... i wrote this to apple many times, but still this feature seems not to exist.
thanks for your answers or discussion ...

... exactly this is what I want and need ...
I don't really understand, why this is not allready included in the actuall ipod software updates ... it's so easy ...
... i wrote to the apple feedback so many times, but they seem to look more on new features for the new products than to a feature, which would be REALLY usefull ...
... you could whatch your whole library by artist, title, album, genre, but a playlist like that seems to be impossible for apple ... it's a bit of shame as it is such a perfect feature ...
... i don't need a video pod or anything else, i just want a perfect music ipod and this would be definitely a feature for this ipod ...
... anyone you thinks like that and does understand the simple and usefull feature we are talking about should place a message here ...
thanx!!!

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