ITunes refresh database (updating songs tags)

I've been looking for a solution for ages!!
I have almost 100 000 songs, and I like it clean! So I often spend hours cleaning tags, making sure everything is perfect (Artist, Album, Year, Categories).
I don't want to use the iTunes auto managing thing, because I don't want iTunes to duplicate my songs in his own folder because there's too much to even think about using twice the space needed...
My setup is simple, I have a data partition on my HD and it's F:/Music (Then all artist has his folder, and a folder for albums...)
When I clean my Tags, I have to play the song in iTunes (only 1 second) and it updates the changes I made. But I don't want to click them all to see my changes...
And I don't want to delete/redo my library because I really need the Play Count feature (for my Smart Playlist auto syncing with my iPhone)
So, is there a "refresh database" button somewhere? That won't change nothing but the update the actual tags ?
Thank you guys!
PS : I know there's other similar answer but it doesn't do what I want to do!

Thank man, your scripts are amazing!
I have one more question about artworks.
I have a very large music library and artworks are taking a lot of place and I'd like to free some space by managing it in a better way.
Actually, I have some artwork managed by iTunes (it creates a folder "Album Artwork") and put the front picture to every song so I can see it if i'm scrolling in iTunes or on my iPhone. It is great but the folder is taking a few GB. iTunes cannot find all the cover (30-40%), so I don't really want to let iTunes manage it. I also have some front cover as a JPG file in the album folder and with my Tag Editor I can add the picture file to the music files and then delete the original JPG files and it keeps showing the artwork without taking a lot of spaces.
My question is : Can I delete all those iTunes files created in the folder
Music\iTunes\Album Artwork\Download\9406062996C08529\00\02\14\9406062996C08529-5C28FB7E1EBD0E20.it c2
Can I simply add my cover myself with my Tag Editor and then delete all the cover related files?
What would you suggest me? (Music library is about 100 000 songs)
I hope my question is clear and makes sense, this is the last thing I need to fix to have my perfect music library.
Thank for your time buddy!

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