ITunes changes genres of tracks in the library, can't change them back

Noticed this yesterday with 9.2- some of my tracks have had their genres changed by iTunes after they have been played. These tracks have been in my library for a while, haven't done anything to cause the change, the genres don't match the artist (ex: one Prince track assigned the "folk" category).
When I go to change the genre back, the change doesn't stick (as soon as I press "Ok" on the info screen, it reverts back to the genre that iTunes assigned to it). I have also tried typing in the genre from the main track view screen (doesn't stick) and from the mp3 properties in Windows explorer- nothing sticks.

If the devs don't change their attitude they will kill Firefox.
...who knows, maybe that's exactly the intention...
(it looks like chrome, boasts the win 8 design atrocities and soon will have the privacy and security of an iphone or android device, so why are we even still using it ?)
We're all freeloaders anyways, so we should be kissing their feet, not complain about them messing up our ease of use with "their" brilliant UI design and functionality ideas.
...so sad indeed, another good community tool goes down the samewash drain.

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