How do you customizing the "Now Playing" view screen?

I am an educated classical musician, so many of the tags people write on their music files seem stupid to me. For example, the term "artist" has many connotations, most of which people use incorrectly. Furthermore, "song" indicates music with lyrics and very few tracks on my iPod have lyrics. With this in mind, the "composer" tag has the most important information for me when I listen to music.
Is there any way to replace the "artist" with "composer" on the Now Playing menu on my iPod?
Thanks,
Paul

Well, you need to remember a couple of things. One, these tags aren't an Apple or iTunes thing; they're a standard. Two, the tagging scheme you're proposing would be as useless to most of the people who use iTunes as the current one is to you.
I'm going to make another work around suggestion that you can ingore. Have you considered putting the information you require in the lyrics tag? It won't help with sorting but you'd still have the info accessible on your iPod. After all, if the music you're listening to isn't "songs" (though you never did answer my question about Mendelssohn), then the lyrics tag is just going to waste. It's just a text field and you can put anything you want in it.
And, if you want to give Apple your thoughts:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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