How to Create Virtual CD to Fool iTunes?

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I legally own a number of albums on vinyl, which I have digitized to my PC and edited on my windows PC in aiff or wav (removing pops/ clicks and so on). In addition I have a number of legal CDs that have sufficient read errors to prevent foolproof rips using itunes, so I ripped them using Exact Audio Copy on my PC to aiff or wav; which gave a better rip.

Now I'd like to import these files into my mac (OS 10.5.8) itunes library. The problem is that itunes will not add title/ track metadata from Gracenote to anything that is not imported from an actual CD into iTunes.

Is there a way to create a virtual CD drive on the mac to which I will "burn" these files into, creating a virtual audio CD which itunes can see as an audio CD and thus import as an audio CD, looking up track names from GraceNote?

Note- You will be surprised- GraceNote will find correct title/track info for analog recordings more often than you think. I burned a set of wav files from an analog LP record to audio CD format and it found the correct info; however I don't want to create actual CDs for all these albums and waste the CDs. I'd rather go the virtual CD route if possible.
 
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Why not convert the files to mp3 and then just add them to the library?
 
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Why not convert the files to mp3 and then just add them to the library?

??? What will that do? I'd just have a bunch of "track1" mp3 files? and "track 2" and so on? It wouldn't lookup the album/ title info which is why I have asked this question.
 
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OMG, you are going to have to type! How do you think that ITunes is going to determine what it is?
 

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