Itunes 11.1.5.5 automatically updates all sorts of track info when I play tracks

I have a massive library, and historically itunes has been shaky about the way it orders things when you have inconsistent info across albums (album artist, track number info. year of release). I keep my library to where they only have track name, artist name, album name, and track number, but with this version when I play any track or even right-click a track and hit "get info", it automatically fills in "album artist", album artwork, year of the release, and any other info they can find. I've looked all over the software to try to figure out why, but there doesn't seem to be any option to turn it off.
So is there either a version that will NOT do this (I haven't tried installing the latest version yet but imagine it would have the same feature and I hate updating itunes), or otherwise is there a way to turn it off?
Thanks all.

Now it's actually changing the name of the artist and track names, so now if I'm playing music with the music sorted by the artist it will only play the one song, and then skip to whatever alphabetically comes next to whatever itunes decides the artists name should be. So unbelievably annoying, why in the world would this feature ever be incorporated into software, let alone without an easily available turn off option.

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