Keeping song info when importing realplayer-created mp3 files

I recently moved to Mac and iTunes, but when I imported my (~6000) mp3 files from realplayer, about 20% came over without album, artist, or genre information. Instead, the song name was just the file name. for the other 80% of tracks, everything worked fine. Help?

The easy thing to do, IF you transfered them from the office PC using copy, you still have access to it, and all the music on your PC and this office PC is the same, is to transfer again with the iTunes Library file.
You will transfer the whole "My Music" folder. inside this folder is the "iTunes" folder with its "iTunes Library.itl" file. this file contains all the song info, playlist ratings ectect. more on the iTunes library can be found here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732
Another helpful artical for you maybe will be the one for transfering iTunes and music to a new PC using your iPod. Some steps you may not need to do, or have to alter abit, But it will give you a general idea on what you need to do to properly transfer things from one PC to another. An iPod is just a "Specailized" external harddrive after all. heres the link if you want to skim over it http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173

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