Problem with ID3 tag "comment"

iTunes seems to allow me to enter a comment tag of any length, but will only store a small portion of my comment (255 characters to be precise).
Anyone know why comments can only be 255 characters and if there is anything to be done about it. Perhaps it is some kind of design feature that cannot be altered.
DB

It's a design limitation. As far as I'm aware the id3v2 tag specification doesn't impoose a limit, but as you've seen iTunes only allows entry of, or displays, a maximum 255 characters regardless of what value might have been stored in the tag via other software.
I'm sure it could easily be fixed in the software if Apple choose to do so. Suggestions go to iTunes Feedback.
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Hi Ed, thanks for responding so quickly. Yes, they are mp3 files, and yes, I had assumed what you told me, that changes made in iTunes would be made to the mp3 files. I also thought it could have something to do with read only, so I made sure that the files were not read only. But yes, strangely enough, even though the tags show up properly in iTunes, they do not show up properly in other players, and don't show up properly in iTunes if I remove the album, copy the album to the second drive, and load it back into iTunes (only for a portion of the files, but with the size of my collection this would still be time consuming to fix). I don't understand it either, but from research I have done online, it may have something to do with an iTunes glitch relating to the ID3 tag version.
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