When relocating my itunes, I lost all my metadata for albums that I had originally imported from either CD or bandcamp. Is there anyway to stop this from happening?

I wanted to access my itunes music from an external HDD as my mac mini only has a 256GB SSD. That was fine, I did that correctly as the forums suggested, however looking through my library It appeared that I was missing a fair amount of music! Right down the bottom of my library was a whole bunch of songs with '01 *trackname* ' then a whole bunch of '02 *trackname* ' so on and so forth. This was all my missing music! I realised after a short moment that this was indeed all the music that I had imported either directly from CD or music I had bought from Bandcamp (so originally it had all the album/artist/artwork/year etc etc) Now I've had to go through and look up each album and re-sort them myself. I want to know how to make sure that if I do need to ever re-import my itunes (HDD failure etc) that all that metadata will stay the same.
Thanks!

AIFF and ALAC will both preserve tags in the files itself as well as what is stored in the library file. It is still best you do the move the library properly as there are some metadata only stored in the iTunes library file and this data will be lost if you end up re-adding a file, but at least most will be saved.
ALAC is the same quality as AIFF but smaller files (~60% original).
Various things you mention set up small red flags. If you are sharing a library you have to be careful. A library is all the media plus all the support files which give it the structure you see when you open the iTunes application. Only one person at a time can open the library file itself (iTunes library.itl). Several people can simultaneously share media but if you want several computers using the same media at the same time you will have to set it up so
each user has their own library file and share the same media. The main problem there is if one person makes changes to the media the other person has to be notified because iTunes iwll not automatically update a library file if something changes in the media folder. I could type another 30 lines on this topic and won't unless you specifically need to configure things a particular way.
Another red flag is "network". Is this a NAS? Plenty of posts on the forum where iTunes has problems using those. Probably many people with no issues but it seems to be a constant issue with some.

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