Sorting CD's on iPod by year

What I want is for when I choose an artist on my iPod, their albums come up in chronological order. Any ideas?

You could do this be setting the Sort Album field of each track to "Year Album". iTunes doesn't make it easy to set the Sort Album for lots of tracks easitly, but a quick look at mp3tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html - suggests it would be capable of doing this. Use Customise Columns to create a new column called Sort Album, with the value *%YEAR% %ALBUM%* and attach it to the field %ALBUMSORTORDER%. Open a folder containing some of your files, check the results are what you want and hit save. As ever, test this app. out on files you have backups for and take care when applying to large groups of files at the same time.
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So is this only possible if I use a Mac and not Windows. I did find this option in the Windows XP iTunes but all it did was add the Year to the Library display in iTunes itself. It did not changed the way that the albums are displayed on the iPod. Maybe I wasn't being specific enough though. The section of the iPod that I am talking about is when you select Music>Artists and then have selected an artist. This is where I would like it to be sorted by year. I beleive your suggestion would make it so that if you select Music>Albums then it would list by year of release in that section.
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I think that is basic sorting for the iPod. For example if you have an album of songs but no track number noted for each song they will show up in the album section but be listed alphabetically where if they have track #'s then they will be listed in tract # order.
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http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/AndrewG17/Picture2-2.png
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http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/AndrewG17/Picture1-2.png
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http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/AndrewG17/Picture3-2.png
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