Importing .wav files, not formatting text

I have some music copied as .wav files that were not imported via iTunes. I now want to copy this music into my iTunes but when I do, all the information (Track Name, Album, Artist, Track Number, etc.) is all dropped into the Track Name field in iTunes. This means I must remove all info from the Track Name column by hand and (re)type all the information into each column. Does anyone have some suggestions that I am unaware of so this does it automatically?
Thanks

WAV format files do not carry tag information. When iTunes encounters a file with no tag information (be it a WAV or another format) it uses the file name as the song name, and leaves the other fields blank.

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