Why Doesn't iPod Classuc Display Music by Artist & Year?

I have a problem I'm wondering why Apple hasn't addressed this yet. I have all of my music separated by Artist and by Album. I've even went so far as to properly enter in the year that the album was released yet the iPod Classic still refuses to display my music in the order in which it was released.
Meaning ... I have several artists on my iPod and each artist has several albums. However, no matter if you enter in the "year" the album was released in it's ID3 tags (using the iTunes software), the iPod Classic will only display your music by Artist and then it will only list the albums in alphabetical order, not in order by year.
In order to get my music to display by Artist and then by Year, I have to enter the year in the album's name:
(1980) Best Hits
(1981) Year of the Dragon
I think it bites that Apple can't fix this problem.
Message was edited by: wolfe426

What a spectacularly rude individual.
The point was no one can give you any help on this except Apple, they would have to alter the iPod interface to do this, hence the link to feedback. Thought I would save some words and just point you that way. In the future I'm not going to touch a key to even do that, but I think your current work around is as close as you are going to get.

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