My iTunes Library is mixed up.

When I play some songs, iTunes player shows the right song information but plays the wrong music.
When searching for the song title in finder (in the iTunes Media map) and pre-listen to the song (hitting spacebar) this wrong song is also playing.
iTunes thus placed different songs with the song names. This was not the case a few weeks ago.
I have a huge library of over 1TB , all imported from CD, placed on a nas drive (raid1), made an extra external back-up, but offcourse they all have the same problem, since i just detected this problem... It seems TuneUp can fix part of the wrong tracks.
My question: WHY is iTunes mixing up the songs? Is it because sometimes iTunes is open on a Macbook Pro wich goes to sleep modus and thus loses connection with the server?
Thank you for your answers...

So you're saying your files are misnamed too? In Finder you go to click on file name "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Rockaway Beach" by the Ramones plays instead? And if you do that in iTunes the same happens which means the file has been mistagged? If played in Quicktime are both the file name and tags in the information window incorrect? That's a mess because it means the file has completely lost its identity and cannot be retagged easily with some tool based on file name or renamed based on tags.
I don't know why this is happening. Do you keep just media on the NAS and the library files on the internal drive? I must say, in the past few months it seems like there are not-infrequent posts where people do that and end up in some kind of mess. I plain think iTunes does not seem to work well with NAS, or possibly only if it is all kept on the NAS. Well, maybe because we don't hear the non-problem cases, but it seems I have been reading more problem cases in the past few months which may just mean more people are turning to NAS.

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