Sorting music chronologically within artist

ON my IPad2, I group my albums by artist. But the. The albums appear alphabetically within artist, and I want them to sort chronologically within artist. And I see no way to do that. Am I just missing something obvious? I don't use playlists; I just start playing at song 1 and keep going till the album is over. :-) Bit old school, I will admit, but that's how I like to do it.
How can I have my iPad show me my music in the order that I want to see it? All of my music has all the correct ID tags, including year, filled in.
Thanks

As of iOS 5, the functionality in the music app (formerly iTunes app) for the iPad was scaled back. Not sure why, although my own theory is that is had to do with the install footprint for iOS in general, and/or iTunes Match compatabilty issues. But no evidence to present for either.
My hope is that it will be improved in iOS6. However, I tend to listen to music by specific album and seldom if ever use playlist or other groupings. Personally I'd rather see an improved codec for playback over most other features, but that's another issue.

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If you don't understand, here's an example. 2 of the songs on the Re:generation album are by Pretty Lights. I want to be able to select Pretty Lights under the artist tab, choose all songs, shuffle, and have those 2 songs play at some point. But I would also like to be able to got to the album tag, select Re:generation, and play all 10 songs in order. However, the new setup won't allow me to do this.
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Sorry if the title is hard to understand, I'll try and explan what I mean:?When you go to Music Library, then Artists and select an artist, you get a list of their albums. Is it possible to get a complete list of their songs, from all albums, here instead?Many thanks.

As far as I know there isn't a way to display all the tracks that belong to a specific artist.
(there might be a way but I haven't found it.)? You are able to play all the tracks by a specific artist by?highlighting?the name of artists and hitting play.

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As far as I can see, you can't sort the order of music on the iPod Touch. It is always sorted alphabetically.
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My music videos are coming through on the iPod Classic 160GB in order of the title of the track - surely there should be an option to view them in order of artists so I can play multiple videos by the same artist in a row?
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I am not sure if this will help or not, but I move any and all videos from the Movie folder by doing this:
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The trouble you're encountering is that iTunes sorts first by Album Artist, then by Artist. Thus, within each Album Artist, you'll get multiple Artist clumps.
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Updated: 2015-07-25Hello and thanks for the feedback!
A similar idea has also been suggested here:
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Sorting by Album: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7783/picture1qj6.jpg
Sorting by Album Artist: http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4199/picture2uo9.jpg
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How to use iTunes 7 new Album Artist field
Mon, Sep 18 '06 at 7:30AM PDT • Submitted by stevebr
iTunes 7 thinks of an album by a performer (call the performer XYZ), where one or more tracks are by "XYZ featuring ABC" or "XYZ and ABC," as separate albums. In the past, the only workaround was to set the album as a compilation to avoid this, but this is an incomplete solution, and it had the side effect of the album not being classified or filed properly.
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Surely there is a way to sort Albums by Album alone, and not by Album+Artist combined?
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