3rd gen User Interface

Question

[This is a slightly toned down and otherwise amended version of a review I posted elsewhere earlier today.]
The new iPod was my first specialised MP3 player purchase, last night. Considering the allegedly superior User Interface design of Mac products, I’m not really that impressed.
Most of the music I listen to is classical, and the whole MP3 industry needs to sort out some fundamental naming problems for classical tracks. For a 2CD-box containing one Mahler symphony, I have two “Albums”, one for “GustavMahler; Symphonie No. 2; Abbado, Chicago SO”, the other for “Mah; Sym 2; Abbado, Chicago SO”.
First requirement: a relational database with a single ID for each composer, work, conductor, orchestra, etc. etc. Preferably with each work categorised as Symphony, String Quartet, Opera, etc. and the ability to have a number and/or name for each - so that “Manfred Symphony”, “Symphony No. 6″, and “Symphony No. 6 (’Pathetique’)” are all possible. Major benefit: only one person has to know how to spell “Shostakovich”. Ideally, each language gets its own versions of names for both people and works. I can amend the album titles in iTunes, but I have to do so once for each track (why, I have no idea - all tracks started with the same album title - what sort of lunatic would want to set different album titles per track?). Later loading up of a 4-disk boxed set of Beethoven quartets and a 2-CD of Verdi's Otello produced similar stupid title differences.
Second requirement: recognition of CDs 1 and 2 (and up...) as part of the same 'album'. I’m really looking forward to putting the Ring cycle on there.
Third requirement: a Work/Disc/track hierarchy, that deals with more than one work on the same CD and more than one CD for the same work. Then we can stop having those idiotic track titles like “Strauss (R), 4 Last Songs, Op. posth. - Im Abendrot” where everything except the song title is the same on 4 different tracks and there isn’t enough screen width to see the parts that are different. Oh, and then the addition of “Work” to the categories like “Album”, “Playlist” and so on.
The same kind of tripe is served up in Windows Media Player, but as I had to download a whole new 50 Mb app just to put CD tracks onto my iPod, Apple seem to have had the opportunity to do that “right thing” that you’re supposed to be experts at. Guys, you missed it!
Back in the user interface of the player itself, if I’m playing an album in that old fashioned “track 1, then track 2, then track 3″ way, I sometimes wonder what track’s coming up next. Finding out means MENU click, move down to Music, and select it, move to and select Albums. Now find the album that’s currently playing (for which you have to remember what it’s called - there’s nothing else to tell you which album is currently playing). Select it, find the little icon that shows which track is playing, and then read the line below. Then repeat most of this tedious operation backwards to return to where you were. Back in the stone age, you just picked up the record sleeve and looked. Even worse, someone at Apple decided to use a huge chunk of screen space for the album cover pic that I don’t bother downloading. “Next track: Ruhe, Meine Seele” - that’s all we need. Far more useful than a pic of a couple of quavers/eighth-notes.
The there's the joyous discovery that having not spotted the opportunity at some point in initial set-up, I'm stuck with that boring name "Owner's iPod" for the rest of the products life.

Answer 1

I apologise for that. Your conviction sounded so strong I thought it a shame to try to correct you.
To be a bit more helpful, you can select multiple tracks and set their album (along with various other properties) all at once. In the same way, you can set the "disc number" for the tracks so that multiple discs are seen as part of the same album.
You can also rename the iPod as you please (though I can't remember exactly how - try right-clicking/Cmd-clicking on the iPod's name), so you're not stuck with that silly name forever.