Organising Albums by artists in chronological order?

Hello, i have the Ipod 60gb model, and for some reason when i go into artists and look at the albums, they are listed in alphabetical order rather than chronological order. This is really annoying, and i don't know how to change it so that my albums appear on the ipod in chronological order, because they do on my itune on the computer?!
Anybody got any ideas?
Cheers
Ollie

I'm fairly sure that you cannot change the sort order of albums within the Artist list on the iPod. It will only sort alphabetically. Probably, the reason that iTunes is displaying your albums chronologically is because you have selected iTunes to display *Album by Year*.
This is achieved by repeatedly clicking on the *Album by Year* column (in iTunes version 7.6.1.9). The sort order will change as follows:
*Album by Year*;
*Album name* (A-Z - then numbers);
*Album by Artist*
Once you select Album by Year, if you then click on the arrow (in that column's header) the order is reversed. Perhaps this is how you have your iTunes set up.
If you want iTunes and the iPod to be the same, click on the *Album by Year* column iTunes until you have Album and the up arrow.
Regards,

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Even if your artists are sorted in the library in chronological order by release date, which is cool, when its transferred to the iPod it still gets sorted in alphabetical order. This is frustrating as I like to listen to one artist's music in order of release date, which I cant because its in alphabetical order.
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