Converting songs and how itunes titles files

Here's the story. I uploaded hundreds on cds converting them into wma files, using itunes, because I wanted the best possible quality. Planning to later re-add the actual files on another itunes library (on another computer).
I later found discovered that apparently, because of file type limitations, there were only 35 characters available, so if you have a song that is longer (usually with remixes etc) the actual file name loses part of the song info. This made a subsequent adding to another library complicated because I had to complete the song titles in the new itunes etc.
So I was told mp3's hold more space for titles (after all when you get song files from people etc, they have longer titles, I thought) and decided to convert all the wma files into mp3s using the same itunes library that converted the cds to wmas.
I then found out there was no change in how itunes titled the mp3s, so the actual files don't hold all the song title.
Is this just how itunes work, or was I told something incorrect, that mp3s can hold more info in their title than wmas?
(I did all this to avoid having to use itunes to use the files and to have just proper stand-alone mp3's of all those cds with complete titles)

Hey Todd. Thanks for the response. The data part of my shuffle isn't full but I have two documents saved in it which are about 150 KB in total. They're still there. Do you think I should try filling it up?

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