Song appears in unknown album

Hi,
I've ripped my very modest CD collection and for the most part it looks great in iTunes. All albums were ripped in Windows Media Player to My Music.
However, some albums' tracks wound up in Unknown Albums. I tried copying the Artist, Album Artist, & Artist fields from one of the songs in the right album into the rogue tracks. One track moved into its rightful Album; the other, just renamed the Album and resorted it.
FWIW, it's Elvis Costello, Imperial Bedroom (Bonus Disc) tracks 1 & 10; the CD came with two discs and all the tracks from the other CD has all its tracks in a separate album. And the tracks actually DO reside in the same folder as the other tracks for this album.
Thx!
Bardi
Baltimore, MD

Before ripping into iTunes select the tracks displayed and press ctrl-i to Get Info.
On the Info tab set the Album Artist. For compilations use Various Artists and then on the Options tab set Part of a compilation to Yes.
For a multi-disc album use the same Album title for each disc and set correct Disc X of Y values.
Rip the disc.
tt2

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