Thanks for the quick reply!
One of the files is from a cd which I burned to replace an old cassette, and the other ones that are horribly mixed up are free audiobooks from Libirvox - they’re old books in the public domain. I suppose they could be in protected format then. I will try moving the files back to my laptop and renaming them there - in the MP3Tag program, right? And see what happens. It does make sense to have them backed up there anyways, although I’m short of hard drive space so I was trying not to duplicate if possible. It’s probably time to get a new hard drive.
Thank you again for the tips!