Sorting within itunes library

I have saved a "learn a language" cd onto itunes. It has many units each comprising many exercises. Itunes unfortunately sorts it by exercise first and unit second. Is there any way I can overide this sorting so listening to the lessons are sequential as in the accompanying book.

Alley_Cat wrote:
TV Shows with the same name used to be grouped in a common folder if there was more than 1 season.
So say for Star Trek, if you had Seasons 1-3, they would all have been grouped in the same Start Trek folder with a Season number heading followed by season episodes.
Now you have a subfolder for each season, so instead of just a single Star Trek entry you'd have:
Star Trek (season 1)
Star Trek (season 2)
Star Trek (season 3)
If you consider some show may have had tens of seasons of shows this then really clutters your TV Show menu.
Actually, I have close to a TB of just TV shows, including series with many seasons (e.g. five seasons of MI-5) and the organization doesn't seem cluttered to me. Most series don't have that many seasons and most people don't have that many series in their collections. But I get your point.
I do wish my iTunes collection was placed more prominently in the main screen, but I understand why Apple did it that way.
To annoy us
They want to make money from rentals not make it easy to watch your own content.
Rental goal acknowledged, I disagree with the latter part. Apple TV 2 makes it easier to watch your local content if you have more than one computer in your Home Share collection (or whatever they call it).
With the Apple TV classic, you could only sync with one computer. If the family uses a shared account for music and video, everyone had to copy their stuff onto the same machine. With the new version (ATV2), my wife and daughter can have their own collections and access them from the Apple TV 2 as they wish. I really don't need a copy of Scooby Doo on my Mac Mini, but my daughter probably watches a movies 10 times before moving on to a new title.

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