Using iTunes Match to find missing metadata

Hello. I'm trying to get my music collection in order. My priorities are adding missing album art, genres and years. After hunting around for software to accomplish this, I'm starting to wonder if iTunes Match might do it for me.
I think I have a fairly good understanding of what iTunes Match does but I'm hoping someone here can clarify one thing for me: If one of my tracks is matched to iTunes Match, I delete the local file from my hard drive and re-download it from the cloud, will it re-download the file and metadata as I held it or as iTunes holds it? Say the version I deleted from my hard drive didn't have a Year, would the Year be added when I redownloaded it from the cloud?
I'm thinking I could fix (pretty much) my entire library by matching it to iTunes Match, deleting the local files which have missing information and redownloading them all. Will that work?
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I'm afraid that iTunes Match will not do what you want it to do. Match uses the sound footprint to achieve a match or not. It does not alter metadata nor does it add missing data. However, it is likely that it will add album art - this is something that iTunes does anyway.
Jim

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