Renaming Music Files - working with ITunes Data Files

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RE: ITunes for Windows ver.7.6.0.29

On the Preferences/Advanced Tab there are two checkboxes:
1. "Keep ITunes Music Folder organized"
2. "Copy files to ITunes Music Folder when adding to Library."

I'm not sure how these checkboxes play into the picture here, (or
whether I need to have both checked or not)

I have lots of classical tracks that sometimes have extra information
and punctuation in the song title. When I am in ITunes I would like
to change the filename of some song files, maybe abbreviate a little
where I can to make reading some tracks a little simpler.

When I do this in ITunes, how are the preferences to be set so that
when I change the filename in ITunes, it will actually change the
filename of the actual file **out on the hard drive too* ?

I came over to ITunes after being a long time MusicMatch user. I had
a lifetime license with them and that became no good after Yahoo Music
snatched them up, so I converted to ITunes for Windows.
In my Musicmatch days, I could very easily re-structure my track
naming convention of my entire library to be:
Track#onDisc-SongTitle-Artist-Album.mp3 (each item separated by a
dash)
In Musicmatch the filename out on the hard drive was changed to this
format via the MusicMatch interface.
---> Is there a way to do this same type of thing in ITunes?

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Finally, I also have a lot of unique information about each track I
want to add to ITunes.
When I add stuff specific to a track in like Comments, Year, Release
Date, Description, Composer, Category, Album Rating, etc...

Where does ITunes store this information?

I need to know so that I can back up this data. I have over 10,000
tracks in my Itunes library. Adding unique track data will be a multi-
year venture. I do not want to lose this data along the way at all
and want to be able to re-load and pick up where I left off in the
event I should ever have to once again re-load WinXP. Having a good
backup plan would be nice if I knew which files actually contain this
data.

Thank you.

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