Track info causing itunes freeze?!

i am running windows xp on thinkpad - no built-in cd so using duronic drive. i insert a cd and when try to get track info - itunes hangs (i changed preferences so it didn't seek automatically as that also caused hang) - any ideas? thanks

The iTunes Match service does not modify your existing ID3 tags to insert tags from the iTunes Store. You're tags are synced to the cloud and remain just as they were in your original library if you download the "matched" tracks from the cloud.

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