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

Hi,
After running "soundcheck", I noticed that many of the songs have a bunch 'o numbers in the comments field, both in the Itunes browser, and when you "get info". I've rarely added comments, nor have I done anything editing the files beyound sound check. Should I worry? Any thoughts?
Greg
PC   Windows XP  

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.

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