ITunes artist name replaced with numbers

hi society,
a few days ago, my USB stick containing my 500+ songs (5gb, 1.7 days worth) broke. i realized i had put all my music on iTunes just a day before it broke. i bought a new USB stick to replace my last one. though when i tried putting the music on my new USB, the artist section of the file name was replaced by 01, 02, 03, etc, which is something i really don't need.
why does iTunes replace the filenames? how can i remove the unnecessary number label from these files quickly?
thanks! (:
cedric

Cedric de Saint-Rome wrote:
hi society,
a few days ago, my USB stick containing my 500+ songs (5gb, 1.7 days worth) broke. i realized i had put all my music on iTunes just a day before it broke. i bought a new USB stick to replace my last one. though when i tried putting the music on my new USB,
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