Some Track Info Gone Missing in AAC

Recently I trasferred 4000 songs from one computer to another. All but 100 transferred without problem, but 100 tracks came over missing album and date info. I re-transferred these 100 with the same result. All are AAC. Any idea?
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That worked, by golly. I followed your advice and changed the "missing" fields and then reverted to the original info and the missing fields transferred correctly. Unfortunately, this fix requires one to go to every missing field in every track, change it, save it, revert, and save it again. I tried changing/adding other info, but this does not work. Strangely, when the original (seemingly fine) track is copied out of iTunes, then deleted in iTunes, then transferred back (on the same computer), the info goes missing! The tag must be corrupt, I suppose.

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