Editing I - Tunes Library

I am having difficulty editing my I Tunes Library. It imports CD tracks and places some from the same album into different album areas in the Library. I want to move the stray tracks back to the correct album area but can't find a way to do that. I Tunes also brought a number of tracks into an "Album Unknown" album. I want to create new albums ( to my old fashioned MS ways aka "folders" ) and move those tracks to the appropriate albums manually.
I am syncing to my Version 5 I Pod Classic manually ( thank goodness, this avoids having this disorganized mess on the I Pod also ). With over 1100 tracks of classical music to organize ( each album basically a playslist onto my I Pod with some variation if possible for different music ), editing and movement capability would be very helpful.
I am amazed that I Tunes does not have simple folder creation and "drag and drop" capabilities like the most clunky of MS programs. Or perhaps that I am missing something very basic and not getting it when what I want is right there for me.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

I'm not sure why you would want iTunes to use a clunky method of doing something just because someone else does it that way. There'd be no progress at all if everyone did that.
To edit the information about a track, select it and choose *File/Get Info* and on the info tab are the various fields you probably want to change. Note the "sorting" and "options" tabs too, there are some things there you may wish to change. You can select several items at once (using the usual "clunky" MS method) and bulk change.
To prevent albums being split up in the future, check the details when the CD is in the CD drive and before importing. Sometimes the information about the CD (on Gracenote, where iTunes gets that information) is wrong. The usual reason for albums being split is guest artists on a track or simple mis-spelling.
Phil

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