Using iTunes Grouping field to identify tracks on iPod Touch

I have a fourth generation iPod Touch and a Mac. I have transferred several albums of Classical music onto iTunes on my iMac. Following a suggestion, I labelled each track for a single piece of music in the following way.
Every track reflected a movement or section of a piece. Therefore, all tracks were labeled with the name of the piece, for example. "Symphony No. 5 in C minor" in the GROUPING field.
Every track for a piece is pretty obviously by the same composer, thus, a composer's name, like, "Ludwig Van Beethoven" was given for every track that made up the piece.
Each track in the piece reflected a different movement, thus the first TRACK TITLE field would read "Movement 1: Allegro Con Brio".
In iTunes on the Mac this works fine. When Looking up classical pieces, I simply make sure that GROUPING, COMPOSER and Artist fields are showing.
Here's the problem, when I transfer the music to iTunes, the GROUPING field seems to go away. I have a whole slew of classical movements detached from any description of the piece from which they are a part. Am I missing something? or do I have to go into each track record and create enough redundancy so that track name alone will describe both the piece and the movement.?

I'm just trying to help and if you really want to buy that app that is your choice; however, I read the description and all of that is able to be done with the iPod's music app as I have described. I even went through and did it myself. You can create, edit and delete playlists. While adding music you can select individual songs within an album from as many albums you want. You can then shuffle those songs or if you want them to play in a specific order you can edit the order and move songs up or down on the list. All of this can be done, as well as the other playing/listens habits you might have all with one app that is compatible to play in the background while you check email or do other tasks. There is no need to purchase an additional app that you have to leave open for it to play how you want.

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