#13 Mass Change Comments

[Anonymous]

I've got a lot of MP3 ID3V2 files that have "garbage" in
their comments fields ... tried to use Tag Tools to blank
them out (Selected All Files, Checked the Comments
Field Box, blanked out the Comment field and Clicked on
Write Tags). Seemed to be processing, but Comment
fields still contained junk ... bad stuff looks like some
kind of program/hexidecimal data (10 groups of 8
numbers/chars in the comments for each file. Example:
000000A3 000000F6 00000684 etc.) I tried blanking the
Track field (which contains "good" track numbers) the
same way as a test and that worked fine.

Any idea as to why I can't blank comments? Is there a
way to easily clear/blank these?

Thanks

Nat Lewis / Houston, TX
nlmaltese@entouch.net

[John George]

Logged In: YES
user_id=313443

That Hex data is probably the disc or cddb id put in by iTunes
(when a mp3 is created by ripping a CD in iTunes) as a
second comment tag (in a non standard way, so id3lib that
MTT uses has some problems removing that frame), will try to
fix this in a future version, in mean time workaround is to
copy over tags other than the comment tag to ID3v1.1,
use "Remove Tags" to remove completely the ID3v2.x tags,
then copy them back from ID3v1.1 ...John G.