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I have many many bootleg recordings and quite a few have the information you described on them. At some point somebody encoded the info onto the cd , thats why it is there.
I have been collecting boots for over 25 years, some are very poor quality as you say, but many are excellent.
It all depends on the equipment used....if a tape was made with a little recorder using the built in mic than it will suck.
Your comment about Dead tapes is wrong- (as a former Dead Head)- I have many live tapes recorded on high end equipment that is simply amazing- better than commercially released albums.
I use to record bands live and you would be surprised at the sound quality, especially today. Digital recorders plugged into $ 5,000 studio microphones- I have many Dylan, Van Morrison, ect....live cds that are simply spectacular and encoded with track listings .

That's probably correct. I wonder what it takes to examine that information from Windows. Windows explorer seems to recognize an audio CD and obscure any detail or tags.

Your comment about Dead tapes is wrong

I just remember college days hearing Dead Heads listening to the most God awful bootlegs. Probably had something to do with chemicals in the bloodstream, but it sounded unlistenable to me under the same toxicological conditions.