I would use the function Convert>Filename-Tag to import data from the folder.
If the folder is also the current folder then you can copy from the folder-box in the tag panel.
If you need to copy from the filename, you can set value and field to %_filename% in the column definition.
To swap artist and title (and I hope we talk about the tag fields and not just the filename), there is a post in the FAQs: