Is there any way to make my iPod just use a folder/filename structure?

I'm really sick and tired of the half-baked way my iPod insists - INSISTS - upon displaying tracks by the metadata.
Sure, it's nice and neat, but frankly, it's a pain in my arse. A lot of the music I want to play is mp3 files ripped from my videogames, or files which are extremely old and have no metadata. Given this, I just want it to display them the way Windows does - by letting me organize my music into folders, and displaying them by only the filename, regardless of the metadata.
It's very difficult to find, for example, a certain song by Bon Jovi, which has no metadata. My other Bon Jovi music has it, but this one song does not. The other songs, if I view the huge list, are displayed alphabetically by the metadata name tag, and not by my filename tag. This one song, lacking metadata, is displayed only by filename.
Or my videogame music - almost all of it follows a format of ## - filename.mp3. Unfortunately, I have like, ten or so game's soundtracks that I have done this with, so there's like, 10 files which only appear as 02 - filename. On my Windows PC, there is no conflict, as I have them sorted into appropriate sub-folders of my giant my music directory. But my iPod refuses to do this.
How can I make my iPod behave consistantly and display the files in a structure of my manual creation, instead of having it trying to do everything for me and buggering the job royally?

I just have a hard time comprehending why they don't handle file structure sorting.
It's not a difficult thing to understand. It is, in fact, a computing science +industry standard+, deviations from it are the +unusual and esoteric+, not something I'd expect from one of the industry's giants - certainly not a mandatory deviation.
It seems like it's a decision that only serves to frustrate people. I can understand why they would want a metadata sorting mode; I can even see making that the default setting... I'm just kind of flabberghasted at the uninclusion of an alternative file sorting method for those of us who trust our own devices better than metadata that may be incorrect, missing, typographically flawed, or what-have-you. I can get to my own music just fine... On my PC. Why not my iPod? Why does the industry-leading mp3 player have to make it a frustrating and difficult chore to find the media I want to play?

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