ITunes automatically updates song information?

For some reason itunes keeps updating song information and artwork when I already have information / artwork present. How do I switch this off as I find it incredibly annoying?

No its not checked. Basically album art just keeps disappearing and song information is changing itself. Its really odd. I looked through my library today and about 1 in 5 album art is gone. Any ideas?

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    You are definitely not alone. This has been happening for at least 2 or 3 versions now. There are multiple threads about this but I haven't found one yet with a solution for the problem.
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    Ok, so iTunes automatically changes info back to original once I play after already changing it in "get info" for some of my artists. e.g. "California Love", by 2Pac is displayed as the artist being "2Pac, Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman". So I go into "get info" and change it to the artist as just 2Pac. However, once it gets played in iTunes it changes itself back. This is a pain in the arse because I like it to be just one artist for easy access and play-through on my iPod. I don't want to create playlists for the artists and albums that do this either because I don't like the clutter. Please help and tell me if you need my situation clarified beacause I'm not so great at explaining things. Thanks a lot.
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