Mac burned iTunes Audio CD looses song data in PC??

In my Mac, I used iTunes to burn an "Audio CD". When it is in the Mac I see all expected track data and meta data: song, artists, genre, etc.
BUT, when I put it in my PC and open it in iTunes, it only shows Track01, Track02, etc.. no meta data, no nothing. Put it back into the Mac and viola.
What is the story? What would be the point and reason for this?

It has nothing to do with Windows and Mac.  The problem is that for audio CDs, the data is remembered on the computer that burned it, and is unavailable to other computers.  See info here: 
Ever wonder how iTunes knows the name of the audio CD you just inserted? Or why it may not remember the name of some burned CDs?
Note that unlike an audio CD, a data CD does have the metadata burned in.

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