Classic to Touch HELP!!!

Ok, Call me crazy but when I got my touch I was "yea nice" now I am not so sure.
On my classic I could go to an artist, sorted by album, hit play all songs and I would get. Album "A" songs 1-10 in order then Album "B" songs 1-10 all in nice order and be able to listen to every artist in album / track order in sequence. NOW I have a touch and I can play only 1 album at a time OR I have to go through and put EVERY artist in its own play list. Where are all the sort functions?
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Hi there, unfortunately I don't know the answer (other than to create a playlist for EACH artist which to me defeats the real purpose of playlists..). I am in EXACTLY the same situation. Just bought my first Ipod touch (64GB) having been very happy user of the Classic for the last few years. It makes no sense to play songs alphabetically if you want to listen to all songs by an artist! For e.g. if you have a few 'greatest hits' compilations you end up listening to the same song several times. Surely it makes sense to group artists' songs by albums, as the Classic does. Is there any way we can get around this? What's the possibility that Apple will fix it? Otherwise I will have to return my Touch and go back to my ancient classic. Much as I like the Touch's many functions, at the end of the day it has to work as a MUSIC PLAYER for me!

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