Every song I play in Itunes gets deleted out of its album

Hi, I hope someone can help me. Every song I play in Itunes gets deleted out of its album and gets put into a Various Artists album.
What can I do to stop this from happening?
Thanks in advance

That sounds like the tags have been updated by some other software, perhaps Windows Media Player, then iTunes comes along, reads the tag as you play the track and moves it around according to the new information. The damage is likely already done.
See Getting iTunes & Windows Media Player to play nicely.
tt2

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