Identifying multi-disc albums on iPod nano?

Multi-disc albums on iPod nano (5th gen) appear grouped, but they're all mixed together and there's no way of identifying if a song belongs to disc 1, 2 or 3... nor to know when Disc 1 ends and Disc 2 begins. iTunes 11.0.3 does it great. Is there a way to fix this issue on the iPod? I wouldn't like to have to rename all my album titles and add disc info to the title. It creates duplicates and it's ugly.
Thank you for you support.

That is the default behavior of iTunes and iPod. If you want to have the albums listed separately on your iPod, you will need to change the Album tags for disc 1 and disc 2, something like "Hundred Year Hall (Disc One)" and "Hundred Year Hall (Disc Two)," for example.

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Message was edited by: PatrickGSR94

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