Organizing music with Zen Mi

I'm new to using my Zen Micro as well as WMP. I have my music organized in my computer by artist folders, without subfolders for album. For instance, I have several Michael Jackson albums but all the songs are in the same folder. For artists which I only have or 2 songs, I have created new folders describing the genre, such as "old school" or "trance". When I transferred my music into the Micro, it basically reorganized my folders into the default categories in the player (ie. album, artist, genre). In addition, it segregated the songs into which albums they came from.
Is there a way I can organize it on my player as it is on my computer? How do I add my own categories such as "old school"? Am I better of transferring using WMP or Windows Explorer? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

thanks for the tip. what if I right click but I don't have "advanced"? I see the info that I can change on WMP but only when you select the songs to copy from cd. When I play the tracks from my hard dri've, I don't see the info to change, just the title of the song and the length.
so if on my Micro, I select an artist and I don't want it to seperate into album and just list all his songs after selecting the artist, how do I do this? at first, i was thinking i could just name them all under the same album name, but that would still require me to perform an extra selection (by clicking that album name after the artist.
thanks.

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