Restoring Original Track Data

I recently edited the details of a large number of tracks and I want to restore the original data I.e. Artists Name instead of Various Artists as I had changed it to. I thought if I deleted the tracks from ITunes and re imported them this would restore the original track data but it doesn't seemed to have work. I also tried changing the location of the folder I was importing from to see if this would make any difference but it seems wherever I import these tracks from they retain the changed information and not the original...
Anybody able to help???

It depends whether or not you have iTunes organise the files too. If so it will have renamed the files to match the new information, otherwise you can use a tagging tool to reset the tag from the file properties such as filename (Track No./Name), folder name (Album), parent folder name (Artist).
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