My iTunes library spontaneously changes or adds information to tags of music files.

I have all my music on an external Hdd (NAS) and it happens to me quite a lot that suddenly songs are missing from albums, moved to another place, etc. After a while I find these songs back under another bandname, or in a strange place. Looking at the info of the file I then see that e.g. the album artist has been changed. A radiohead song from a radiohead album, suddenly has Pink Floyd added as AlbumArtist.....
How on earth does tghis happen and moreover how do I prevent this from happening all the time?

That stinks! I can actually do that at my house...I just plug my iPhone right into the wire that's plugged into my receiver in my living room...but some of my friends aren't "technology savvy"...lol...so they just have DVD players and I'll put the CD in there because it will read an MP3 disc. What's funny, is I have the phone set to "Manually Manage Music", and when I plugged it into the laptop just now, the one song I downloaded last night on the phone, transferred over to the iTunesl library. That NEVER happens. And it only transferred the one song...it didn't double the other songs like it ususally does. I swear, iTunes does what it wants, when it wants sometimes...lol. Thank you for your quick response.

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