Itunes continually trying to downlaod album artwork for same 2184 tracks

I have around 11,000 tracks in my Itunes library. Whenever I add more tracks, as soon as Itunes has processed the new songs, it trys to quote "process album artwork" for the same 2184 tracks each and every time. All the tracks have album artwork, so I'm at at loss to explain why Itunes keeps referencing the same songs every time. It makes no difference whether the option to Automatically Dowload Album Artwork" is enabled or not from the EDIT>Preferences menu. Any ideas?

I am having the same problem and it looks like a lot of others are also.
Does Apple support this product?

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