Ok, so you have a CD that has no CD track information yet entered:
You happen to be rather impatient, and so ignore MC's sage advice to enter the tag info, and rip anyway. Now you have a bunch of unnamed tracks that are in an unknown artist\album folder tree:
So now you decided to enter the metadata and submit it to MC's YADB database:
You'd like to fix your track names based on your hard work. So you can create a smartlist to show you both the CD and the ripped tracks (these live in two separate databases - the CD database and the Main database):
Here they are, and yup, the FLAC files have no metadata, but the CD .cda tracks do:
So, you can shift-select and/or control-select one or more tracks, by clicking on the desired column to edit that particular column (its the last click that selects the column to edit). You select all the tracks by clicking in the Genre column, and then control-clicked to deselect track 6, pressed F2 to edit (which will then open the in-column editor), copy the value, and then paste. MC fills in all the selected tracks:
Of course, you could have used the Tag Action Window too - whatever is easiest. Eventually, all the data is copy/pasted from .cda tracks to .flac tracks. Its pretty fast once you get used to F2 and then Ctrl-C - Down Arrow - Ctrl-V, repeat copy/move/paste until done:
Now, you sort by File Type by clicking on the File Type column (mine happens to be labeled Ftype) to easily select only the .flac files for renaming:
Finally, right-click Library Tools > Rename, Move & Copy to rename the files based on your entered metadata:
In the future, just remember that any metadata you enter before the rip will be set in both the CD tracks in the CD database and the ripped tracks in the Main database. You might also want to change the Volume Name tag in for just the CD tracks.
Most of the skills here will apply to other uses, so its worth learning them if you do a lot of tagging.