Editing song and CD information.

I am setting up new Smart Playlists and I want to organize the albums in each playlist by Genre.  Example: my Christmas albums will have the Genre of "Holiday" and a Smart Playlist is set-up to collect all my Christmas music.  Unfortunately, I found out that some of my Christmas albums were originally loaded into iTumes with a different Genre other then "Holiday".  I went into iTunes Help and found the article that dealt with Editing Songs and CD Information.  I selected one of the Xmas albums and followed the instructions of going to File > Get Info.  This brought up the album information and the Genre was showing "Country".  The editing routine let me go to this field and select a new Genre of "Holiday".  Unfortunately, no matter what I do, the change I am trying to make will not stay.  I make the change and click on OK at the bottom of the screen.  But when I go back and check to see if the change is there, it has reverted back to the original setting of "Country".  What am I doing wrong?

Try clicking once on the on the song you want to edit then click again on the field you want to change to open the text box. I found that this works for me. If you double click too quickly the song plays instead.

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