Album art, track info applied from wrong album

I have a few treasured rips from little-known labels. For instance, Ron
Eschete's jazz quintet doing their very tasteful interpretations of Beatles
titles. Problem is, WMP 11 thinks this album is 101 Strings' covers, and
overwrote the [tediously typed-in] album information including cover art,
track numbers and titles. Similar trouble with old Columbia Great
Performances CD reissues of LP albums, and paid downloads from Amazon.
Can I protect my rips from this mutilation, or provide updated
information to the stores?
P.S. Whatever happened to WMP>Help>About>version number? And the hokey but
cool eye candy onscreen in the 'Now Playing" tab that was in XP? Sorry to
add this whiny footnote but I'm suffering a little future shock here...clues
welcome.

Windows 7 Pro, WMP 11 unknown build

Cobalt, you jerk. Buy your albums from Microsoft-approved vendors! Have you
considered switching to recent Country or Hip-Hop?

"CobaltBlue" wrote:

> I have a few treasured rips from little-known labels. For instance, Ron
> Eschete's jazz quintet doing their very tasteful interpretations of Beatles
> titles. Problem is, WMP 11 thinks this album is 101 Strings' covers, and
> overwrote the [tediously typed-in] album information including cover art,
> track numbers and titles. Similar trouble with old Columbia Great
> Performances CD reissues of LP albums, and paid downloads from Amazon.
> Can I protect my rips from this mutilation, or provide updated
> information to the stores?
> P.S. Whatever happened to WMP>Help>About>version number? And the hokey but
> cool eye candy onscreen in the 'Now Playing" tab that was in XP? Sorry to
> add this whiny footnote but I'm suffering a little future shock here...clues
> welcome.
>
> Windows 7 Pro, WMP 11 unknown build

An update: This appears to be WMP 12.7600.16415 Right-click >Library

"CobaltBlue" wrote:

> I have a few treasured rips from little-known labels. For instance, Ron
> Eschete's jazz quintet doing their very tasteful interpretations of Beatles
> titles. Problem is, WMP 11 thinks this album is 101 Strings' covers, and
> overwrote the [tediously typed-in] album information including cover art,
> track numbers and titles. Similar trouble with old Columbia Great
> Performances CD reissues of LP albums, and paid downloads from Amazon.
> Can I protect my rips from this mutilation, or provide updated
> information to the stores?
> P.S. Whatever happened to WMP>Help>About>version number? And the hokey but
> cool eye candy onscreen in the 'Now Playing" tab that was in XP? Sorry to
> add this whiny footnote but I'm suffering a little future shock here...clues
> welcome.
>
> Windows 7 Pro, WMP 12 unknown build