Problem Transferring iTunes Meta Data To MP3 Player

I've been using iTunes for years, collecting music from various locations; iTunes Store, online sources, CD's etc. and like to keep my song meta data in order so everything is nice and organised.

However, recently I bought a Sony MP3 player and they adopt a fairly standard drag and drop method of transferring music to it, as if it were a memory card. This is all good and a large majority of the songs transfer perfectly, i.e all song names, album covers etc. remain intact. When trying to transfer music that I have ripped from a CD, usually with a .WAV Codec, only the song's name beginning with the track number gets transferred with the file. This is highly frustrating as it means finding these songs on the MP3 player is near impossible.

It feels as if the meta data that i've inputted on iTunes is separate from the music files from the CD's hence they don't get copied with when dragging and dropping.

I've tried simple solutions like the 'consolidating files' tool with no luck and even tried asking iTunes again to 'get track names' on the CD albums, this comes up with an error message saying something along the lines of 'get track names can only be used with files imported with iTunes' however all CDs have always been imported with iTunes.

I would really appreciate a solution to this problem else my lovely new MP3 player is a bit useless.

Kindly,

Rory.