View itunes comments field on Ipod

I like to add additional information about my item in itunes in the comments field (ie: if it is a spoken item, date of event). How can I view this information on the actual ipod? It would be nice especially if I have more than one spoken item and don't remember the actual title, just date.

Comments don't display on any current model iPod, the additional information on songs can only be viewed through iTunes. A workaround would be to add the date to the title, if comments are something you'd be interested in seeing you can leave feedback/feature requests at this link: Apple Product Feedback

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I don't think that is possible. You can only view the Description, not the Comments.
It sure would be nice if iTunes let you edit the Description, wouldn't it? You can try giving Apple feedback about it here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
I wrote a script that will let you edit the description of the tracks you select in iTunes -- but it would be up to you to manually copy the comments field (copy and paste should work). If you want to use it, download the script, then select the podcast tracks in iTunes, then run the script by double-clicking on it. You will be prompted to enter the description for each track.
You can download it here:
http://www.pobox.com/~teridon/itunesscripts/itunes_description.vbs (right-click, and select "Save link as")
Or copy and paste from below into a text file (use Notepad):
' # itunes_description.vbs
' # This script will eject all connected iPods
' # written by: Robert Jacobson (http://www.pobox.com/~teridon/itunesscripts/index.html)
' # Last Updated: 19 Sep 2007
' # Version 1.0
' # This script is GPL v2. see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Option Explicit
Dim iTunesApp ' iTunes.Application object used to access the iTunes application.
Dim tracks
Dim track
Dim lastvalue
Dim input
Dim i
Dim name
Set iTunesApp = CreateObject("iTunes.Application.1")
Set tracks = iTunesApp.SelectedTracks
lastvalue = ""
For i = 1 to tracks.Count
Set track = tracks.Item(i)
IF track.Kind = 1 Then
name = track.Name
input = InputBox("Enter the description you want for the track" & name, "Enter Description", lastvalue)
If Len(input) > 0 Then
track.Description = input
lastvalue = input
End If
End If
Next
The forum TOS requires me to say: "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link" because I have a paypal donation link on my webpage, but the program is free (donation totally optional)

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I can then manually put tags directly in iTunes comments field and they will not show up in the proberties of the files in Windown Explorer!
So I ask, why on earth aren't those fields (in iTunes and in Windows Explorer) compatible, when all other fields (for example name, artist, year) are compatible?

Okay, thanks for replies and for your time, but the problem continues.
First: I've ripped CD's in different ways (before starting to use iTunes). I've used Nero, Windows Media Player, Lame and imported mp3 files directly from the internet. Some files have been through Flash Renamer and TigoTago. After importing the files I've tagged them with comments and other stuff directly in Windows Explorer. And then I decided to use iTunes because of buying iPods and playing music through AirPort Express.
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*Then I went back to my old laptop, imported a CD using iTunes and then tagged the comment field in Windows Explorer and suddenly I got comments in iTunes! But the comments look like this: "00000000 00000210 000008E8 0000000000775908 00000000 0040E5E1 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000".*
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First, sorry for my english (I'm danish).
I've read a lot of threads here and everywhere else, but can't find a solution for my exact problem. I use Windows Vista and the newest version of iTunes.
Most of my mp3 songs (35.000) are put directly in album folders to the folder 'D:My Music from another computer via a USB drive and the songs already have id3 tag information on them.
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