Itunes "convert higher bitrate songs" not working properly

hello,
i recently used the option "convert higher bitrate songs to 128kbps aac" to save storage space on my iphone. it worked like a charm and i saved several gigabytes.
HOWEVER, as soon as i sync my iphone again, it starts to reencode approx. 60 tracks again! it takes a while of course and after that, the tracks are converted and on my iphone (i checked it). if i sync again it will reencode again the very same tracks (and delete them before from my iphone). this is really annoying because it costs time and cpu usage.
i didnt changed those files, i checked the date when they were changed, and they werent changend at all this month!
does anyone have an idea? i really like this option, but if it means that i have to convert 60tracks everytime i sync my iphone, i will have to disable it...
regards

I am seeing this artwork bug too, on my nano. It seems to be tied to the 128 kbps songs, but I can't pinpoint exactly what makes it happens.
All I know is, now that I'm using the 128 conversion, I have to reset my nano at least once per day to get artwork back. It also seems to be tied to coming out of pause or hold. After I've paused music and come back later, the artwork shows a white box. But not all the time, so I wonder if it's only when I pause a song that has lyrics.

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