How to keep podcasts and music in chronological order

I recently got a replacement iPod after sending back my original one when the screen stopped working (would only light up white and blank) and noticed some differences compared to what I was used to with my old one. On the old one, I would combine everything I wanted to listen to into one playlist in iTunes, music, recordings I made, and podcasts, with dates so they would play in order, oldest to newest, and that imported fine. On this new iPod, I've noticed that podcasts get grouped with each other on the iPod, while other music or audio files goes to "Music", which is fine, but I can't get them to play oldest to newest- they're only grouped newest to oldest, which makes some content awkward to listen to if something is multi-part. With each podcast group the newest is at the top of the list and the only way to listen in order is to listen to them one at a time rather than simply start at the oldest one in that group and let it play automatically. Audio under "Music" has the same thing happen.
Anyone know how to fix that- or if there even is a fix?
Thanks!

No fix: that's just how the Podcasts work. You can play around with the database to change dates, etc. but I don't recommend it (and it still plays newest to oldest). Go back to making Playlists if that's what you want to do.

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