Automatically Renaming Songs

My iTunes automatically renames songs for me. For example, I just imported a new CD yesterday. I renamed the tracks from Track 01 (etc) to the names listed on the CD case. But when I click on them to play or change more information, the names change back to Track 01, etc. Can anyone help me stop iTunes from doing this?
Message was edited by: Sysofadwn06

hmmm...yeah, that's a problem because I don't know how to strip the tags off of them.
Try this: simply convert one of the songs to mp3, this is just to see if it works. Go to edit > preferences > advanced > importing and set it to mp3. Right-Click on the song and "Convert Selection To MP3". This will create duplicates of those songs (one in AAC and MP3), and see if the MP3s can retain the information.
NOTE: these MP3s have degraded sound quality because you've made a copy of a copy, though some people can't detect the quality loss. Anyway, this is just to see if it works.
If it still doesn't work, then strip them of their ID3 tags as I relayed above. Then try to see if they can retain the info this time.

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