ITunes sometimes doesn't sort my mp3 folder

hey everyone - i triesd searching the forum for an answer to this but unfortunately didn't seem to find anything. i might be searching with the wrong keywords. but basically my question is this:
ihave iTunes set up so that it sorts my mp3 folder. i think this is pretty straight forward. i move all my songs and downloads (mainly from beatport.com) into my mp3 folder and then import them to iTunes (usually by dragging into iTunes) most of the time iTunes takes the raw file that has some kind of weird id3 tag like 0192deep_space_carl_craigremix and sorts it appropriately into a folder with Artist, Title, Album, etc... that way when i go to look for it, its under the artist, not just a single file like the one above
but SOMETIMES it doesn't do this. sometimes the file stays with that funky tag. which means when i go to search for it it's NOT under the artist's name. mainly th issue i run into is when using something like Ableton, i can't search my folder by artists, i have to search this mess of random songs starting with numbers like 839093_Deep... etc...
anyone have any idea why iTunes doesn't sort these song files? it seems pretty random, but it WILL do it as one big chunk. meaning if i buy 10 songs from Beatport, it either sorts ALL 10 appropriately, or it DOESN'T sort all 10... never anything in between
any insight would be fantastic!!!

unfortunately thats the problem. usually either iTunes manages the folders immediately OR - all i have to do is manually change the iTunes tags and it will automatically reconfigure the folder and place these songs that have the iD3 tags of 8948204_xxxxxx into the right format. So for example if the song is mark alexandre - itunes help. the file with 43289294ituneshelp will automatically be put into a folder for Mark Alexandre...
it just hasn't been doing it lately....

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