Questions about consolidating Library

Please answer any of the three questions you can.
So here is my dilema, my files are all named weirdly due to downloading from amazon, walmart and other sources. Their data is all mixed up and some info is missing on the song file. I fixed all the files info in my itunes library and added album artwork but it doesn't fix it on the actual file. I know this cause when my iTunes completely messed up once and i had to reimport all my songs were back to being messed up. My question is...
1). Will consolidating my library also change the file names to match the info inside itunes and will it add/change in missing info such as "artist" or "album" in the actual file?
Also i have a problem with "change". I get used to something and if it changes too muuch and i have a hard time getting used to it i get really frustrated. My second question is...
2). Can consolidating be undone? I know it can't be undone officially but what if i were to export my itunes library, consolidate, and then if i don't like it, just import the old library file and use the original folder and organization if i don't delete it?
The most important part for me is the song information. I want it to be embeded into the file the way i have it in itunes so it works for media center and other programs...
3). Is there a 3rd party program for this that is easy to instal and doesn't take up a lot of space and is easy to remove?
Thanks.

Wow, i'm an idiot. Ok, i always do the get info thing and change it. For some reason i never noticed it actually changed the file properties. Although when my library crashed a lot of them were messed up again.
Honestly, i don't need to consolidate because all my music is in one place. My only thing was that i read or possibly misread that it fixes filenames. A lot of the filenames on my amazon songs and others are named weirdly like "03-_Sexy_*****_(FeaturingAkonexplicit)" When i wish it were just "Sexy ***** - David Guetta". Meh, not too important.
One last question then:
Is there a way to get the album art to embed itself into the file? I've noticed some of my songs have album art inhe file itself but for others i know that it's only in itunes. (unless i missedd that detail as well) When my library crashed i lost A LOT of album art that took me a very long time to find in the first place.

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