Why is iTunes automatically rating my albums?!

I have a whole system built on song ratings. For some strange reason iTunes randomly applies a rating (solid star, not outlined star) to various albums, which then applies a rating (outlined start, not solid star) to all the unrated songs in that album. This really screws up my system! I don't mind that iTunes calculates an album rating based on actual song ratings, but I HATE that it will apply an album rating that effectively rates all my unrated songs for me.
If it matters, I listen to my music almost exclusively on my iPhone. Is there a way to rate albums on mobile devices that I'm not aware of?
Has anyone else experienced this? Any idea what might be causing it?
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Hi,
This thread might shed some light on this issue.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9771298
Carolyn

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Why is iTunes automatically changing my genre metadata?
For the past couple months I’ve noticed that iTunes has been changing genre information in my music library. This is a problem because I’ve spent the past decade tweaking the metadata in my iTunes Library to be exactly the way that I want it (particularly with genre and grouping information).
I have a very large iTunes library and I’ve changed genre and grouping info for organizational reasons. When iTunes changes the genre of my music, it’s effecting my smart playlists and causing a domino effect of mis-organization. Tracks and albums are popping up in multiple genres, and things are getting disorganized very quickly.
I suspect that iTunes is changing the genre info of my purchased music back to how it appears in the iTunes store and that this is going to be a new ongoing Apple issue that is quietly ignored. If that’s the case, then I would like some feedback from other users who may have some helpful advise to disconnect iTunes from the mother ship of the iTunes Store. If this is the way it’s going to be, then I’ll simply stop buying music from iTunes and try to use iTunes as a stand alone music player (if possible). If that is NOT possible, then I’ll be looking into moving my entire music library to different software and completely removing myself from iTunes. After a decade of loving iTunes, that would obviously be a shame, but losing control of my library is a deal breaker.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Other notes/observations:
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2014 discussion about edited tags for Store purchases reverting to originals - https://discussions.apple.com/message/26077896
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Send feedback to Apple and wait very patiently and keep fingers crossed they do something about it, eventually, someday.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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