Fill in missing song ID info?

Hi all-
Back before the days of iTunes, I used some random app to rip my entire CD collection into my computer. This did not download CDDB information to the computer, I actually entered song name, number and artist manually.
I'm looking for a way to take my entire collection and update the ID3 tags so that I have a complete set of info (year, album and genre would be most helpful!) for all of my music, without doing to each song (or groups of songs) manually.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for the help.

There is probably no app out there to do that. For a program to be able to do that an application would have to what song each file actually was to be able to get the Meta data for it.
Since there are lots of different music file types. And each type can be made differently with options like sampling freq, and bit rate, etc. there is not a good way to make that match.
Each copy of a CD on the other hand is exactly the same bit for bit so a figure print can be created for each CD

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