ITunes needs to be able to find media info.

Like Windows Media Player iTunes should be able to find media info, update track info (id tags) and auto download album art.

What sort of Media Info do you mean? As far as I'm aware iTunes has always found tracknames, composers, year of release etc. for me when I rip CDs to put on my iPod through using Gracenote CDDB that is built in. If this doesn't happen, when you insert a CD just go Advanced>Get CD Track Names.
The only thing that it doesn't do is find the album art but you can just import it yourself. If you don't have the time to then there's a number of 3rd party apps that will do this for you - just look on google.

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