Embedding artwork to songs, while they're playing, corrupt the files?

While manually adding & removing artwotk have had strange experiences.
Most notably the added artwork shows up pixelated & corrupt looking,
for lack of a better term. Then the files lost all metadata but the songs titles.
I know it sounds like bad files, but these were newly downloaded from iTunes....
Ideas?
Thanks

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