How iTunes respect my custom artist/Album homework?

Hello!  I am trying to transfer my iTunes music library (more 11 000 songs) from the hard drive of my old laptop (a Windows machine) to my MacBook Air (MacOS 10.10.5, iTunes 12.3.2) by copying the iTunes Media folder: Music on the old hard drive to the iTunes Media: automatically add to iTunes on my Mac folder.  In the process, I expected to "re-brand" many files to do things like making the composer the artist under which classical compositions are deposited, for example, Bach all in an artist called Bach folder (instead of have it all scattered on in different folders corresponding to the performers) and have all the tracks on the CD to several albums in a single title of the album folder (and not in separate folders for) each drive), etc.  I did already a lot of this work by hand and worked to do things in the Album artist file: unknown unknown, when I accidentally opened iTunes and it began to the add to iTunes process (which I now want to 'Cancel', if possible).  It was my pants up, but then I noticed that all the work I did for the files to "reposition" in the records of the artist and the Album of my choice is not met: in the iTunes Media folder: Music, records that I had deleted have been recreated and files I had put elsewhere were released in the old folder structure , which obviously I don't like, or I wouldn't go to so much trouble to change it.  So is there a way to achieve my goal, i.e., customize the artist and Album of the folder names and content, preferably before all be imported into iTunes, and iTunes will respect and preserve?  Thank you!

You shouldn't do like that.  Instead, you need to take your entire iTunes folder (and not just your iTunes Media folder) on the Windows PC and put it on the MacBook Air to replace its existing iTunes folder.  iTunes on the new MacBook will look like in iTunes on the old Windows PC, with all songs and data, such as playlists, ratings, play count, date added, etc.  The existing "metadata" will be the same as before, and you can continue to work to better organise your songs in iTunes.

If you do as you describe, your NEW iTunes library on the MacBook will be more disorganized, and you won't have your playlists (all the songs will be new songs in a new library).  This new iTunes library won't know anything about the old iTunes library.  iTunes doesn't care of the existing folder structure when you import the songs (iTunes considers new songs) to a new iTunes library.  By using the default settings, iTunes keeps the folder iTunes Media organized, based on what you see in the list of iTunes window name song music library (more Track #), Album name and artist name.

The procedure to transfer your complete iTunes folder is described in this document

Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external drive - Apple Support

To sum up, the first step "consolidates" your iTunes media files (from where they are currently stored on your drive), in the designated folder iTunes Media (in your iTunes folder).  All your media files may already be store here.  Second copies of step ("backup") this folder full iTunes (which includes your iTunes library database file very important), on an external drive.  The third step "restores" that backs up the iTunes folder, in your case, for the new MacBook.  With iTunes not running, you replace the existing folder to iTunes of the MacBook with the old Windows PC.  When you run iTunes, it uses this iTunes folder; you see the same iTunes library.

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