Mysteriously Shortening Tracks Names for new music

I am on the latest version of iTunes.
Whenenver I add new music into my iTunes library (not imported from cd's) and then eith play them or edit track info, the track names always get shortened to 36 characters. How can I stop this, it is very annoying and now i've lost some titles of music because I can't remember them.
Any help and advice would be very much appreciated.

The operating system has a limit of (I think) 255
characters for file names.
255 characters for "file names" yes.
But if iTunes used proper UNC paths internally (like all good Windows apps are supposed to do), then the max path name is actually 32767 characters, with any given file name or folder name being limited to 255 characters. This is on NTFS volumes, of course.
On FAT32 volumes, you are more correct, the max path name is 260 characters.
So in short, it's possible for them to bypass this "limitation" in iTunes, they just haven't done so.

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