Itunes automatically rechanges tags and removes album artwork

my iTunes automatically rechanges tags and removes album artwork, and i mean in the bad way, rmoving my artwork, and rechanging Progressive Rock tag to Progressieve rock
I hate it when he does that, fix this bug please

iTunes does not do any automatic tag changes. However, it will reflect the changes if another program changes tag data. The usual culprit is Windows Media Player.
Go into WMP and uncheck any library options that could cause it to retrieve media data from the internet, etc, etc.

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