ITunes won't display song names

Every time I put in a new CD to import it only lists the songs as "track 1". How do I fix this? Thanks

Well make sure there store bought CDs as thats the only CDs it goes out on the net and pulls info up on, if there personally made CDs it won't. Also some store bought CDs they do not have listed in the database.
If its doing this on every single store bought CD u have, especailly popular CDs, check your firewall and antivirus and make sure there not blocking iTUnes, or some internet accelerater u have

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first question is is there a setting i can choose
(either in iTunes or the iPod nano itself) to make
the on-screen iPod nano text appear larger than the
default?
No.
however, most
of my songs require a program called NJStar
Communicator (www.njstar.com) to display the chinese
characters -
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