Songs 'get info' tab is grayed out

I cannot change the titles/artists on multiple songs in my library. I can on others, though. How do I fix this?

I have the same issue - all fields are greyed out.
I seem to have had this in the past and fixed it, but cannot recall how.
Any ideas?
Found it, the file attributes were set to Read Only - please disregard

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