How to identify the source of matched songs?

Question

This happens quite often. When I click the arrow next to one of the songs in my library to show in iTunes store, frequently I will be taken straight to the homepage of iTunes or iTunes will prompt the message this song is not available in your country. I understand why this happens; however, is there a way to identify what country the song is currently available in iTunes? I could Google the song and find it manually but a way in iTunes would be nice. Secondly, I have iTunes Match and I’d like to be able to identify where my matched songs were matched from. For example, I have lots of matched songs in my library where the track and artist names are completely blank. This was an issue I had when my laptop was stolen a few years ago and I stupidly hadn’t backed up my music library and the only source I had left was my iPod. When I transferred the music files from my iPod to my current laptop, all of the song file names were encoded which resulted in my library to lose all of its song names, artist names, album names etc... Ideally I would like to be able to click the arrow next to my matched songs and have the option to select matched song in iTunes store and have it take me through to the album is was matched from. This would encourage me to potentially purchase more songs from the album but more importantly in my case, identify the song and artists names to my blank library! Any help will be much appreciated

Answer 1

At this time it is not possible to do what you want. If you are not taken to a song or album in the iTunes Store then most likely the particular item is not publicly available. This is simply how it works at this time. Nor is there a feature to apply ID 3 tags from the iTS. You'll need a third party app for that.