After soundcheck (Hex?) Characters in comments field?! (Itunes 6)

Certain cases of corrupt or weird ID3 tags will cause those hex comments to appear. It's not really a problem, and you can safely delete them without any noticable effects, but they may continue to appear if your tags are bad in specific ways.

The only way I know to prevent this from happening is to use known good tagging programs to tag your MP3 files properly in the first place. I use Tag&Rename and it works great for this sort of thing. The Godfather also works well, and is free to boot.

They are indeed related to using SoundCheck, but they only actually appear when you have buggy tags.

In other words, if the tags were correct, the SoundCheck process would add these tags in such a way that they wouldn't actually show up in the comments field in iTunes (although other programs might show still them).

However, removing them will not affect the operation of SoundCheck in any way. They're not used again to make SoundCheck actually work. I can go into incredibly long and boring detail on this topic if you're interested, but you're probably not. 😉

Aren't the comments related to using soundcheck?

thanks for the clarification and yes you are right the short version is plenty useful for me.

Tx

Highlight your songs in iTunes and convert the ID3 tag to version 2.3v For some reason iTunes is creating 2.2v tags!

WHY!!!!!!??????