HT4914 Source Album Data on Store Matching Songs???

SORRY - Posted to wrong community.
I am new to iTunes Match. I will be loading my library (20,000 songs) very soon. Many of my songs are old RnR songs that appear on many "Oldies" albums. Will I keep my album source data on the Cloud site - or will it pick some other album source data???
Message was edited by: J Growler

J Growler wrote:
What I understand is that I will probably loose the actual album source information and I will no longer be able to select all the songs from one of my albums by album title?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, but if you mean the ID3 tag information embedded in the music files, your assumption is incorrect. The ID3 tags in your iTunes library are not touched. I don't know what you mean in the second part of your sentence.

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