I changed all songs to the same artist by mistake ...help!

I accidently changed all my 712 songs to have the same artist. Is there a way to fix them back without manually typing in each artist?
My son says i can use idump to put the songs from my ipod (which are correct) into a file, then load them into itunes.
Thanks.
Mike

My son says i can use idump to put the songs from my ipod (which are correct) into a file, then load them into itunes
Yes.
Were these songs RIP'd from CD using iTunes?
If so, select them, then menu Advanced -> Get CD track names.

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