My iTunes metadata is a mess. I signed up to iTunes Match when it was first released in Australia and think it is a good solution. If iTunes Match knows what my music is, why can't I use Apple's metadata to clean up the metadata in my iTunes library?
I can!!!
This isn't bullet proof, I find perhaps twenty percent of songs that are matched but don't seem to have metadata available from Apple. I also find songs from some albums will get marked as the single or an iTunes release and mess up groupings via album, but I can fix that up afterwards. All in all though it works pretty well. See this post. Like the original poster, I'm in Australia his script is perfect for me.
http://beaugil.es/2012/03/fix-metadata-with-itunes-match/
NOTE: I'm using OS-X 10.6.8 so had to install the XCode from my Snow Leopard media and not the App Store, but otherwise the instructions in the above post worked perfectly.
UPDATE 01 JULY 2012: After a recent update from Apple installed on my computer the ruby script stopped working. I think it was an iTunes update. Follow this link for details on how to fix this issue:
http://www.apeth.com/rbappscript/04appobject.html#staticterminology
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