Strange Comments

When looking at information for songs, I will sometimes see this sort of thing "0001448 00001525 00003D9E 00004E50 0002E647 000222F7 00008000 00008000 0000C350 000222F7" as an example in the comments box. What's this all about?

I have been having these problems as well for some time - very annoying as I use the comments field like many others to store keywords to help set up smart playlists, and this info is deleted by the hex codes.
After reading other posts on the subject, and my own research I have the following workaround.
After importing a CD, check which version ID3 tag has been used by right clicking on a track and Get Info.
I am using iTunes v.7.1.1.5 and when importing, I have noticed that sometimes, ID3 ver.2.2 is used, but on other occasions ver.2.3 is used which causes the problem.
If a file is using ID3 ver.2.3, you can change it to 2.2 by highlighting, then under the Advanced menu, click Convert ID Tags, then select the version you want (2.2) and OK.
This is a real pain (I have just gone through over 1000 tracks!) Let's hope Apple sort it out sooner rather than later!
Hope this workaround helps.
Sony Vaio Windows XP
Sony Vaio Windows XP
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Album Art + Strange Comment

I've been having a problem with itunes the past few days and wondered if anyone could help. I have Windows Vista and Itunes 8. My album art has been rapidly dissapearing and instead I get strange comments in the comment box somewhere along the line of: 00050250 0002560000 02000000. And if add the album art on a song, these comments appear as well. It seems when I change a song it screws the comments up. This has just happened the past few days.
I have NO clue what is going on, and wondered if anyone could help. Thanks!

Katrina S. wrote:
There are about 10 other threads on this here on discussions. Nobody has ever gotten a definite answer what caused it.
Most of my artwork was still OK, because I converted all my tracks to use ID3 v2.3 tags.
I was able to reproduce the problem you mention by checking Sound Check in the preferences. And fix it by unchecking.
When I unchecked and started fresh, the comments problem went away (on iTunes 8.0.0.35). I have detailed steps if anybody is interested.
As I was having so much fun with the comment problem, a worse one surfaced right after. *iTunes does not seem to write to the proper ID3v2 COMM field anymore!* Can anybody try the following:
1) Type a comment in a file via iTunes Get Info dialog
2) Open file in WinAmp, or other media player, or in XP/Vista look at the file properties.
Is the comment there ?
*In my case my previous/existin comment that was on the file is still there, NOT the one written by iTunes. This was not like that. What changed ?!?*
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Strange Comments issue I may have caused, any suggestions?

Hello, I may have caused a problem on my iWeb blog and hope that someone can offer suggestions.
What I did was this - my blog page name was Weblog. I changed it to Blog while making other changes to my website. I then published changes. However, when I saw that my changes were still showing in red (website was not updated), I published all and everything went to blue. My site was updated.
Problem - after doing the above, I noticed that all my entries on the website said "No Comments", even on entries that I know have comments. I went into iWeb and it says the same thing, but when I read the blog entry, the comments are there with the correct count. So I can see the comments in iWeb, but not on the website. Both iWeb and the website show "No Comments" in the blog page and in each entry.
I later read the Apple troubleshooting note (via a link in this forum) that because the comments are stored on their server, we should not change the folder name. However, I did not change the folder name, did I? Is that the same as changing the page name in iWeb?
Anyway, I first tested my site by posting a comment in a new entry and it works. However, if I add a comment to an entry that had previous comments, the old comments go away and only the new comment shows. So, I deleted the new comments and quit iWeb without saving. This got me back to where the old comments were still there.
I decided to change the page name back to Weblog and I republished the entire site, but that did not work. All the entries and blog page still say "No Comments" in both iWeb and on my site, even though the comments can be seen in iWeb.
If anyone has any suggestions for getting the website to show the counts, and for the website to show the counts and the comments, I would appreciate it. It was always working well before, I shouldn't have changed the page name, and then change it back, but I didn't think that would do any harm.
BTW, this was my first use and publishing on iWeb since updating to OS 10.5.7 late last week, so not sure if that had anything to do with it. I am also on a new iMac after migrating yesterday, hope that doesn't add to the issue.
Thanks in advance for your help. I have always been able to resolve issues with help from the users here, but I fear that I may have caused a doozy.
Santiago
link to my website blog if it helps --> http://web.me.com/sabretado/sabretado/Weblog/Weblog.html
The last entry that I know had comments was the one about the World Baseball Classic on March 22, 2009. I looked at the source but don't see any of the comments showing, just something about the Comments widget. Thanks.

Santiago ~ The "Fix iWeb" section here has some suggestions:
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebTips.html
And MobileMe live chat support is now 24/7 — see this announcement. Other Apple support options are here.
Problems with iWeb's blog and comments feature are a recurring theme in these discussions. You may want to consider a dedicated, more robust blogging system such as:
http://www.posterous.com/faq
http://support.wordpress.com/getting-started

I"stuff" won't open after leopard installation

A Tale of Taxes and Computers
My wife and I purchased our first computer in 1984. It was a Mac, no hard drive, just a floppy drive so we also got an extra external floppy drive. BIG TIME!
In 1991 we began using MacinTax (Turbo Tax) which saved much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth around the house.
We loved both so much that we have upgraded our Macs several times (we are now a three Mac family) and signed up for automatic renewal for Turbo Tax.
Which brings me to December of 2007.
I received my Turbo Tax in the mail and promptly popped it into my G5 to begin the taxes. Install, restart. But wait, the Turbo Tax icon just sits there and bounces, it won’t open! Reinstall, try again, same thing. I’ve never had this problem, what’s going on?
I eventually end up in Turbo Taxes’ FAQ forum to find out that my G5, running system 10.3, won’t open the program. I need system 10.4 or better. The only thing better is 10.5 and it’s just been released.
What to do?
Well, I have a G5 running 10.3 (the computer I do our taxes on) and two laptops running 10.4. I may as well upgrade them all to 10.5 Leopard, I can get a family pack for only $199.00.
One week and $200.00 later, Leopard shows up at my door. Good, now maybe I can get back to doing the taxes!
Load, install, wait, blue screen, blue screen, more blue screen. Retry, reinstall, wait, blue screen, blue screen, still more blue screen. Call Tech support, how much Ram do I have? 256. That’s the problem, I need at least 512!
What to do?
I need memory chips (plural), my wife’s laptop doesn’t have enough Ram either.
$130.00 and one week later, I’m ready to try again. Wait, the G5 won’t read the chip. Try a different slot, won’t read. Try a new slot, won’t read. What’s going on! I must admit, at this point I broke “The Man Law” and got the G5 manual out and read it.
“Memory chips must be installed in pairs”
What to do?
Another $80.00 and another week later I got another chip for the G5!
Install both chips, install system 10.5, open TurboTax, IT WORKS!
But wait, with 10.5 Leopard there’s more!
Everything I had that operated in the Mac “Classic Environment” will no longer operate. It’s all gone! And while the third party software programs from 10.3 still work, the Apple programs do not! Does that make sense? I had recently started using iphoto, but it will not open anymore. Neither will any of the “i” applications in my G5. I guess now Apple expects me to spend another $80.00 for iLife 08 just so the applications that I already had will work with their new OS!
Congratulations Apple! You have made a giant leap to close the gap between Macs and PCs

A long saga with a moral: Look before you leap"
Everyone knows Leopard does not support Classic.
Everyone knows that many apps are not supported under Leopard.
I would never upgrade anything without first doing a complete investigation into the pros and cons.
It's called due diligence.
Your rather strange comment to Mac about closing a gap goes unheard by Apple. This board is used by people who only are here to help others, and rants etc, rarely help anyone.
Your epic is unique in the annals of history in detail; but rather passe and blase in broader strokes.
I have had no such problems with Leopard on any of my three Macs and I do not expect I ever will. I pay attention to details and never move forward without knowing where I am going.
Since this board is for problem solving and you have not expressed a need for a solution to anything, I do not really understand the nature of your desultory philippic.

Create Playlists by file name attribute

Hi,
Somehow I have around 5000 songs that got duplicated.
The duplicate files were named like this
<filename>1.mp3
So I would like to find just those *1.mp3 files from a playlist of duplicates that I created with one of "Doug's iTunes Scripts" called "Corral Itunes Dupes"
And the kicker is that each duplicate song has the same 'date added' date+time as the original, so although I can find duplicates, I dont know which one to delete.
Is there anyway to use the filename attribute in itunes to filter my current "Dupes" playlist in order to search for files ending in 1.mp3????
Thanks,
Bill Hart
mac mini intel Mac OS X (10.4.6)

OK,
I think I have found the answer to my question, but it wasn't as clean as I would have liked. Beavis gave me some ideas, but ultimately I wanted to have iTunes do the deleting for me so that the database and filesystem was in sync the entire time. Due to the magnitude of the files involved I needed a batch system, the following did the trick with one caveat.
1) First, run Doug's Scripts "Coral iTunes Dupes" http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=corralitunesdupes
2) Next run Doug's Scripts "Sundry Info to Comments" http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=sundryinfotocomments
This step is required. If there is a better way to do this please post it. What you want to do is attach the filename to the the commment section of each database record.
Why? Because iTunes does not allow you to create smart playlists based off that information. For me, this information was necessary because the duplicates all ended in 1. You will want to tell this script to add the filename to the comments
3) Then when you can create a smart playlist that uses the "Dupes" regular playlist and add in searching "comments" for 1.mp3 or 1.m4a or 1.m4p, however you want to filter your duplicates for deletion.
4) Now you should add the column "Commment" to this playlist . This is optional, but I like to check to make sure I have the right songs, and not a bunch of real songs that actually end in 1 (maybe Stephen Malkmus's 1% of 1, for example).
5) Now to delete files from a Smart playlist or regular playlist type option-delete. You should see the standard warning about keeping or deleting files etc. I wanted to delete the files so I choose "Delete files"
6) Optional Go back to the Library and turn on "Show Duplicate Files" from the edit menu just to check you duplicate count and make sure it is in line with what you would expect.
7) DONE!
Hope this helps someone. Really, iTunes should have a facility to filter/search the library/playlists based on filename!
Oh, and the 1 CAVEAT is that for the duplicated songs that you are keeping have the filename in the comments section. Oh well, deleting 7 GB of data was better than some strange comment info.
Regards,
Bill Hart

Debugging Jni Dll with VC6

I'm having problems debugging my JNI DLL hosted by a tomcat application. Starting Tomcat under the vc debugger causes a lot of first chance exceptions (0c0000005) to be thrown by JVM.DLL. This happens before my jni dll is even loaded, here's a short dump :
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Nicht abgefangene Ausnahme in java.exe (JVM.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation.
Nicht abgefangene Ausnahme in java.exe (JVM.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation.
Nicht abgefangene Ausnahme in java.exe (JVM.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation.
Nicht abgefangene Ausnahme in java.exe (JVM.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation.
Nicht abgefangene Ausnahme in java.exe (JVM.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation.
Geladene Symbole für "D:\Projekte\Applications\Winlog.web\tomcat\bin\JGimp.dll" überein. <----- my JNI DLL
Nicht abgefangene Ausnahme in java.exe (JVM.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation.
Geladene Symbole für "D:\Projekte\Applications\Winlog.web\tomcat\bin\CGimp.dll"
JVM seems to catch those itself, but needless to say, this is something that shouldn't happen.
Any ideas ?
Regards

805541 wrote:
Actually, this was a statement waiting for opinions...
I can use VC2005, VC2008, WinDebug as well, same issue.
And the real alternative is to have strict layering in the C code itself such that you shouldn't need to debug JNI itself at all.well, that's a strange comment. Is there any valid reason not to debug a jni DLL ?1. Because you can't. Say on a production system with strict install rules.
2. Because you don't actually need to "debug" the JNI code itself because you maintain a strict boundary layer protocol. Thus bugs can normally only be expected in the functional C code (which allows for testing via other means.)
3. Because it is difficult to do.
And my favorite is because I would avoid JNI completely these days and instead use a separate executable that wraps the target functionality. Thus to discrete applications both which can be tested independently.
When I used JNI in the past I never needed to use a debugger (because I followed item 2 in the above.)
Other than that I can only see that you have two questions.
1. You are asking if you are doing something wrong. You might suggest googling.
2. You know you are not doing anything wrong and there is something 'wrong' with the VM. In that case get use to it. It isn't going away. Or at least not unless you have a sales contract and/or service contract with Sun/Oracle. And if you have that then this is site is not the appropriate way to use that.

IMac Fan Revved Up All the Way - NOTHING Worked!

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I've had a mid-2011 27" iMac (Intel) for about a year, and I am now facing the problem of having my CPU fan constantly revved up all the way (~4000RPM). I get this even when my CPU is 97% idle and the temperatures across the board (according to iStat) are perfectly normal.
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Resetting the SMC
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I even tried booting off the Lion and Mountain Lion DVDs and can't find the AHT there either.
Since there aren't any Lion or ML DVDs provided by Apple, that's a strange comment. For the AHT failure, assuming that the machine came originally w/Snow Leopard, try this.
Mount disc 2, run this command in the Terminal app, OPTION-click & hold Finder's Dock icon, and select RELAUNCH:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1
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Dovecot startup problems on Mountain Lion

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When I enter "doveconf" in terminal the last line is "doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/dovecot.conf: ssl enabled, but ssl_cert not set"

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Hmm... What a strange comment. From the source? Aren't we talking about Java? Inheritance and method invocations differs in Java and C++. I can understand if you wrote from the source, if it was Gosling who had answered. You should read about late and early bindings etc.
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IDOC - XI - IDOC with strange Config , Still working . Please comment !

I am having an running IDOC interface in Production ...
whose SAP XI Config looks strange to me ...
This Interface is IDOC - XI - IDOC
On receiver IDOC adapter ... following Options are checked...
1. APPLY CONTROL VALUE FROM PAYLOAD
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Sender IDOC to Receiver IDOC
Sender IDOC is different from Receiver IDOC ..
In Control Record ( EDIDC_40)
TABNAME IS MAPPED WITH TABNAME
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Hi,
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Strange "code" in the Comments field when playing songs

When I play some songs (probably 80% of my archive) iTunes generate some strange code in the Comments field. This is quite annoying, since I use the field to write additional info about the song, artist, location, whatever.
Examples of such codes:
" 00000244 00000000 000010B3 00000000 00022325 00000000 000057AD 00000000 00004E37 00000000"
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How can I stop this generation of random numbers and letters in the comments field?
null

Ick.... Well, maybe you're right. I also turned off "let itunes keep things organized" at about the same time. Between turning off sound check, itunes organizing, and the WMP settings, I have never seen it happen again.
I still think it was WMP, as I only open WMP rarely to listen to web clips and I noticed it had happened to some tracks I had not played in itunes for years, and it happened right after that WMP update. I'd had the sound check and itunes organization thing on for years.
One thing we can agree on, it was totally random. No rhyme or reason to it, and I even noticed that it didn't even affect all the tracks on some albums.
I just turned sound check back on, only on my Mac, because that is just my backup copy of files. We'll see if it hits again.
edit-(it's determining sound volume on x of 393, weird, I have over 27000 tracks in my library)
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Strange behaviour with Subjective Assessments comments in SSM10 SP10

Good day community,
We have strange behaviour with Subjective Assessments comments in SSM10 SP10.
We have been using this successfully for 3 quarters.
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Hi everyone,
We have since noticed that if you go into the Administrator > Context Management > and change the "Person Responsible" and then save, once you go back to the Scorecard Overview all the Q3 comments have been overwritten with the Q2 comments.
This happened on a different machine so it seems there could be a bug in the Administrator.
Any thoughts on this strange behaviour would be appreciated.
Regards,

Strange code in comment fields of MP3's

What's with these 00000F62 00000F32 000070F6 0000650F 00032343 0001D3EF 00008000 00008000 00001E05 00003555 in the Comments field in iTunes?
No it's not from Sound Check feature. I have that turned off. Perfectly legit MP3's purchased from Amazon's MP3 store. Some of those have the various 7 sets of 8 digit numbers. Can anyone help me with this?

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TS3293 All applications appear to respond to the touch pad, except for Facebook. It takes a strange double click on each side of the comment or like button. This is running in safari. The face book app doese not have that issue.

While in Facebook and using safari or atomic web browser, I have to double click on one Sid of screen and the other very fast and sometime it will allow me to like or make a comment. This does not happen with ipad face book app or any other applications. Just stated doing this yesterday
Can anyone help, it is now very hard to use Facebook.
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Facebook and mobile safari are not playing well together right now. It's an issue with facebook, not your iPad. The best you can do is find a work around until Facebook fixes it, if they ever do.

Strange AUR comments (spam)

did anyone else read those comments?
I know that you and Pierre were planning to disconnect me, and Im afraid thats something I cannot allow to happen
I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you
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A google-search shows that this must be some kind of spam:
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didn't anyone else notice that? couldn't find any info about that...
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