Album Info/Art changes in my itunes when changed in another library

Hello everyone....
This is not a major issue but it is really aggravating to me. My sister and I have separate itunes libraries on one computer. Whenever she changes the album art or title for a artist in her library, whenver I go to my itunes and click on a particular song from that same album, it automatically changes it in mine to whatever she titled it. I thought it had something to do with the Home Sharing feature but since turning that off, it still hasn't fixed the problem. I hope someone will be able to help me.
Message was edited by: BobosGirl

Welcome to AD!
It sounds like you each have separate library database files, yet there is only one copy of the actual music content files. The artwork, track, album and title info is stored in the music file. When the music file information gets changed, all itunes can do is read those changes.
The ratings and playcounts are stored in the database file, so those don't change if either of you rates a song or plays it lots of times.
You can either
1) Agree with your sister on how to setup the artwork & artist
2) Each have your own copies of the music files, which will take up double the hard drive space

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