Stopping Itunes from updating/modifying my song list.

Hi there, here's my problem: Basically I manually corrected all of my songs (over 7000 songs) of my Itunes, I manually set the correct name, artist, album and even put the illustration to each album, my problem is that everytime there is a new update for Itunes it automatically changes things like the genre or the album (mainly) and alters everything from what I had, is there an option I can click to stop the Itunes from doing this?
Thanks

I already have everything "tuned up" everything has it's right name with the right album and even genre, my problem is that Itunes "automatically" updates the songs to whatever album they think is the correct one and changing the album that I had already selected as the correct one, the most anoying thing is that they change the genre of for example spanish sining groups/singers to "latin" music.. When there's diferent kinds of genres in spanish or in italian or in french songs, even when I had already selected the correct genre for different songs/groups...
Any ideas?

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