ITunes wont update with new information

So a brief story to see if anyone knows how to help me out.
I have had itunes match for a while now and had no problems apart from the typical issues when uploading. About 2 weeks ago i made a backup of my C: Drive which contain's my itunes library (XML and ITL files) and Artwork.
All my music/app/books ect are on a separate hard drive.
A week after backing up my C drive, i decided to clean up my itunes music. All I did was change some album artists names from VA to Various Artists. iTunes did this fine and moved all the albums to the folder called Various Artists on my separate hard drive where the music is stored. Also this updated itunes match, as at work on my MacBook they appear as Various Artists - i.e. the new album artist name i gave those albums.
A week after this windows broke, so I had to format my C: hard drive. The separate hard drive where the itunes music/apps/books etc was fine.
Formatted my pc and restored the backup of all the XML and artwork to my C drive. I open up itunes and the albums have the old names (i expected this as the backup was prior to me changing the names) and when i try to play a song on any of those albums it says it can not find it (this is also normal as the albums were renamed, but do exist in the itunes folder called Various Artists).
I thought oh ok, itunes match will update all my xml library files with the data it has stored in the cloud. But it doesnt. It does not touch those albums.
I know for a fact that in the cloud the albums are named Various Artists as i can see them on any other apple device (iphone, ipad and mac itunes).
Is there a way to force itunes match to update your l;ocal library album names or artists. Is there an easy way?

el_gallego87 wrote:
Is there a way to force itunes match to update your l;ocal library album names or artists. Is there an easy way?
iTunes Match doesn't really work that way. You'll need to locate the files for iTunes (either on the external or internal HDD), then change the ID3 tags yourself.

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