iTunes Store downloads no longer contain composer names

Kirk McElhearn:

I had noticed that, in an album I bought, Hilary Hahn’s In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores, there were no Composer tags. This is a bit irksome, because there are 28 different composers on the album, and manually tagging takes some time.

I thought for sure Kirk must have been wrong, so I downloaded Beethoven’s 5th conducted by Herbert von Karajan (my personal favorite) and sure enough, there was no composer information. It doesn’t make any sense that Apple would do this on purpose, but they need to fix it.