ITunes Minimization - Song Information

Hello again,
I've searched around a bit in the past and wasn't able to find it, but it's just occurred to me again that I'm unable to view the current song's information when I hover over iTunes in the Windows Toolbar when it is minimized.
This function is available in WMP 11. It seems like something that should be there, so is there some sneaky checkbox that I can check and this will work? Or would it require some external script?

Hi,
iTunes Match uses the sound footprint of the track to be matched or uploaded. So it is not essential that you have complete metadata info. If the music has been sourced from commercial discs, you are likely to get a match if it is in iTunes. One thing match will not do is update any missing metadata.
There are apps available that can help complete missing data. I have no personal experience of such apps - maybe someone else can point you in the right direction.
Jim

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Hi,
iTunes Match uses the sound footprint of the track to be matched or uploaded. So it is not essential that you have complete metadata info. If the music has been sourced from commercial discs, you are likely to get a match if it is in iTunes. One thing match will not do is update any missing metadata.
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I'm having some strange problems with track information in iTunes. I first noticed it when I tried to copy some mp3's from my Mac to my mobile phone: certain tracks did not retain the song information, like artist, album etc., while others did.
A similar problem has been discussed in this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3698498
However, my problem seems to be a little bit more specific.
If I look at the music in my library in iTunes, all the track information is there. However, for MP3's encoded after 16th October last year, the "Imported With" field, using Get Info, is shown as "Unknown". Before this date, it is shown as "iTunes v7.0". For all MP3's the ID3 version is v2.2.
I believe that I must have upgraded to iTunes 7.0.1 around this time, since I have a number of Apple Lossless audio files which have also been imported and don't show this problem.
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I have all my music stored on an external hard disk - 160GB Freecom ToughDrive formatted as HFS+. Previously it was stored on an external disk formatted as FAT32, but copying the files over to the new disk didn't change the problem.
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By using an id3 tag editing program - ID3 Editor - I was able to view the song information for each track, even though all the other music players I had tried would not show it. If I then chose to modify and update the ID3 information, this would somehow modify the tags in such a way that they become readable in all other programs.
I tried using the "Convert ID3" tags option in iTunes, just on a whim, but without any success. Saving the song information in ID3 Editor doesn't change the version of the ID3 tag - it's still listed as v2.2 in iTunes - but it DOES make it readable in other programs. I also tried the various text conversion options, again without any success.
This looks to me like a bug in iTunes. While its possible for me to get around it, in an extremely long winded way, I still can't understand why iTunes would be writing ID3 information that other Apple programs cannot read.
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