Info in Comments Field Changes to Hex Code

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Info in Comments Field Changes to Hex Code

I know that this has been reported before by lots of folks. However in searching the discussions I can't seem to find that anyone has a good solution to this yet. The issue is that on songs that I have imported as MP3 the information that I have put in the comments field is being changed on hundreds of songs to a long string of "Hex" characters. Then to add insult to injury on those MP3 songs that still seem to have good data, it changes to bad data when you play the song or try to look at its info.

This all started to happen when I upgraded to Itunes 7.3.0 something. I switched back to 7.2. still same problem. So I trashed the Itunes library and reloaded all my music from a backup file. I lost all of my playlists, but my comments field was correct on all my songs. Then today I used the "Get Album Artwork" Command and now I have the same problem again. This is gettinhg old and taking lots of time to try and resolve.

Any songs that I imported as AAC do not have this problem.

By reading other posts I know that this is probably related to Sound Check or gapless playback or ID3 tag version. However, that doesn't reslove the issue.

Can anyone offer a solution that doesn't require reloading all of my music every week?

Thanks much for any insight on this.

Dell Windows XP Pro

Posted on Jul 11, 2007 3:18 PM

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Answer 1

Chris CA

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Jul 11, 2007 4:18 PM in response to Richard Etchells

By reading other posts I know that this is probably related to Sound Check or gapless playback or ID3 tag version. However, that doesn't reslove the issue.
Then you have tried converting the ID3 tags to a different version?

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Jul 12, 2007 3:13 PM in response to Chris CA

By reading other posts I know that this is
probably related to Sound Check or gapless playback
or ID3 tag version. However, that doesn't reslove the
issue.
Then you have tried converting the ID3 tags to a
different version?

Chris - Thanks for your reply. Yes I have tried this and it does not work. On songs where the comments field is not yet corrupted, the act of selecting the song and then clicking on the "Convert ID3 tags" command in the advanced menu causes whatever is in the comments field to be changed to this long string of Hex characters. I can change the ID3 tags on songs where the comments field is already corrupted but it stays corrupted (long string of Hex characters.

Rick

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