Sorting music videos by Artist?

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?
Am I missing something?

I am not sure if this will help or not, but I move any and all videos from the Movie folder by doing this:
right click the video file and select Get Info.
Click the VIDEO tab
Make sure the Video Kind is Music Video.
It now appears in the Video Music folder where you can enter the artists name in the Artist column. When you sync your ipod, your videos are arranged by artist.
One more tidbit: If you want to play your videos continuously on your IPOD (not have them stop when finished for you to manually select the next one), do this:
right click the video file
select Get Info
go to the Options tab
UNCHECK Skip when shuffling.

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