How can I organize my music by filename rather than alpha

One thing that kept me from getting an iPod was that I really don't like iTunes app. Why can't it work like a typical directory structure? Anyway, you can sort your music by the song title or 25 other methods, NONE OF WHICH ALLOWS SORTING BY THE FILENAME. Since many of my files are live shows that are named and numbered in order, and intended to be listened to in order performed as preferred.

iTunes doesn't care about the filename. There's no way to change this.
iTunes organizes music based on the ID3 tags within the audio file itself.
If you want to change the way that you music is organized within iTunes, then the only way to do this is to modify the tags.
I know there's plenty of scripts available to us Mac users to make all sorts of modifications to ID tags based on the filename... but I don't know if there's anything available for Windows users.
Might be worth looking into.

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