ITunes Says "Other" takes up 1.31 GB of memory on my ipod

this makes it impossible for me to add anything to my ipod. it says that the "other" category (orange) takes up about 1/3 of my ipod. i have no album artwork on it. any ideas what could be causing this problem?

A restore only affects your iPod. The restore will put your iPod back to factory settings including removing all of your music & other files, it has nothing to do with the content in your iTune library. As long as everything is in your iTunes library, once the restore is completed, iTunes should sync everything back to your iPod.

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ITunes says "other" is 6GB on my iPhone...tried every solution here I could find!

Not sure if this is better off in iTunes or iPhone. Please advise about this, or maybe a mod can move the thread if they deem it necessary.
Anyway... I have, I'm guessing, a black 16GB iPhone (capacity reads 13.something GB) with my Macbook Pro 15".
My first question, which isn't as important, is about my audio usage. I have audio taking up 6GB, which confuses me because I have no voice memos and my music under Settings>General>Usage reads 1.4GB. What in the world is giving me the rest of the audio?!
But the real question is, my 6GB of "other." I've tried restoring, checking/unchecking the "automatically open iTunes when phone is plugged in" option, restarting my phone, restarting iTunes, restarting my computer, syncing and re-syncing. I've looked through my apps and I thought that this one app "Annoying Sounds" was filling up the space because it uses a ton of audio files (which I'm thinking may contribute to the audio usage? Not sure). I unchecked it so it would be removed from my phone but that didn't help either the "audio" nor "other" usage.. My apps themselves are only taking up less than 1GB of space according to iTunes' calculations. (Photos: 0.1GB, which seems accurate because I just backed up and deleted most of my photos.)
I'm stumped, guys.

Well, after hours and hours of searching and experimenting, I've FINALLY figured out the solution to my main issue. My music was doubling itself into the "other" for some reason.
I backed up my iPhone, then downloaded iExplorer to delete all of the files in the iTunes Music folder as well as all of the album artwork. I then opened iTunes, and there you have it, hardly anything in the "other" category.
The reason I decided to do this is because when I plugged in my iPhone and opened iExplorer, I noticed a TON of music there that I had deleted from my iPhone quite some time ago. iTunes wasn't detecting it, but iExplorer was. I advise anyone with an iPhone or iPod to check your device with iExplorer or any similar program (or if you're a total nerd, use Terminal!) to see if there are files taking up space.
I still cannot figure out how to delete the voice memos, though. There are around 15 still hidden on my iPhone, but I don't know where they are (iExplorer doesn't see them) but they are taking up space.

How do i free up space on my iphone? It says "other" takes up 65% of my overall space

I have 20 photos and 2 apps, no videos and 380 songs on a 16GB 3GS. I have close to no room left and it wont let me download a 500mb app. I have no idea what "other" is but it takes up about 9 GBs of my space, i think it cpuld b a glitch because i really have nothing on here.

Game files, contacts, ringtones...?
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Hi guys i can really use some help in my storage it says other takes up 8.4 gigabytes and i deleted all old texts and notes help please !

THANK YOU

"Other" is not old text and notes. Some "Other" is there for a purpose, but if it gets too big, it probably caused by corrupt data. Doing a restore of your phone is the normal route. Make sure (as I am sure you do regularly anyway) you backup everything before doing the restore.

Itunes says the songs are synced, but they are not on the ipod.

I recently erased everything off of my computer because it had a virus. I'm pretty sure this is why this has happened, but I have no idea how to fix it.
What's happened is my iPod has over 100 songs on it, but when connected to the computer it says it has zero. I figured "no big deal." But it was. When I went to sync my songs onto my iPod, something happened. From iTunes, when I click on my iPod to view the songs, it has only the ones that I had just synced. Then when I unplugged my iPod to listen to them, the newly synced songs weren't there.
I have no idea why uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes did this, since I've done that before when I was having problems with my computer. I would just use a different computer, but none are very convienient and it was a lot of songs that I tried to sync, so I'd have to import all of those into the other computer's library.
I really don't want to have to restore my iPod if there's another way to fix this problem, because I don't want to do that if it won't definitely work. I have a lot of songs there that are no longer in my library (backed up and still on the external server, but its a lot to import individually.) that are on my iPod that I would still like to have on it.
I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me. I have no clue what's wrong...

This Apple knowledge-base article may help address that issue.
Windows confuses iPod with network drive.

Itunes says i have the iphone...but i have an ipod touch.

When I select my ipod in itunes to look at its review (where it shows the capacity info and whether or not it needs an update, etc that kind of stuff) it says "iPhone" at the top and tells me "your iphone software is up to date..." blah blah blah. i have a 3rd gen ipod touch...? i don't know if it has always said that and i'm just now noticing or what.
EDIT: I just finished a sync and it even said "iphone sync complete" at the top. whaaaat?! i'm pretty sure that it has always said "ipod."
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AND, it's also taking forever to sync and back up. it was giving me the error message that it could not load data from sync services or something like that but that went away after i unplugged it and plugged it back in. it's still taking forever to sycn though. gahh what is going on? :/

Well I know that I didn't get any responses but I thought I'd just let people know that after not having it plugged in all night and plugging it in in the morning, everything is back to normal. It says "iPod" again and tells me that my "iPod" has finished syncing. What happened last night maybe was some sort of temporary bug? I don't know.

HT1351 Itunes says that 96 of my songs cannot be synced on my ipod since this computer is not authorized. When I authorize it I am told that I have 5 computers. I only have one. please help

When I sync my ipod with itunes i am told that 96 of my songs are not authorized on this computer. I follow the directions to authorize and the message answers that I have 5 computers and this is the only one authorized. I only have one computer. How do I get itunes to sync those 96 songs???

Hi eversonjm,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. If you are out of authorizations but only have 1 computer, deauthorizing all computers and reauthorizing your correct computer might be a good idea. See this article for instructions:
iTunes Store: About authorization and deauthorization
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1420
If after deauthorizing and reauthorizing your computer, you are still not authorized for the 96 songs, this article has some steps for seeing the account name that was used to purchase a song, in the event that a different account may have been used:
Recovering a forgotten iTunes Store account name
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1920
Cheers,
- Ari

When I try to update my ipod 3d gen to ios 5.11 and check for the update, itunes says it is on it's most recent software already. my ipod touch is running on ios 4.2.1.

Please help asap, I'd appreciate it alot. thanks.

I suspect you have a 2G iPod. Those can only go to iOS 4.2.1.
Identifying iPod models
iPod touch (3rd generation)
iPod touch (3rd generation) features a 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display and 32 GB or 64 GB flash drive. You can browse the web with Safari and watch YouTube videos with Wi-Fi. You can also search, preview, and buy songs from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on iPod touch.
The iPod touch (3rd generation) can be distinguished from iPod touch (2nd generation) by looking at the back of the device. In the text below the engraving, look for the model number. iPod touch (2nd generation) is model A1288, and iPod touch (3rd generation) is model A1318.

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With those symptoms, I'd try the following document:
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(If there's a SpeedBit LSP showing up in Autoruns, it's usually best to just uninstall your SpeedBit Video Accelerator.)

Updated iTunes to 10.5, iTunes won't work now! Everytime I open iTunes it just freezes and I can't click on anything. It says to take it out of compatibility mode and still doesn't work! any help??

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Re: How do I turn off the compatibility mode for ITunes.
Does that clear up the compatibility message?

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Change App Store
1. Tap "Settings"
2. Tap "iTunes & App Stores"
3. Tap on your Apple ID
4.Tap "View Apple ID"
5. Enter your user name and password.
6. Tap "Country/Region."
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Hi I got an email from itunes saying that my pre order was ready and when I click on the link from my ipad it takes me to the itunes store app and then it doesn't do anything help with this please.

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Thanks for your advice, I went to the apple shop today for a face to face meeting with a tech and he checked everything and could not figure out why I was having this problem so we decided to give up on that account and create a whole new one for me using a different email address.
Now I can download apps on both my iPhone and ipad2.
If anyone is reading this in Brisbane Australia go to the Chermside apple shop and ask for Wade. He was fantastic!
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Attempting to download 'Drive' in HD. ITunes says it will take 15 hrs to download, is there anything I can do to make it quicker?

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Win 7 either comes with a virtural XP machine installed, or it's freelly availible. I forget which, but this may be a simple solution to your issue.
Here's a link that might help:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/
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ITunes says my iPhone 4 is updated, but I've got the old Bluetooth version and haven't got the new menues? Music that i've loaded to iTunes directly is not synced to the iPhone either, but the other way it syncs...

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Thank you for your answer, but no, I've got 7 GB free space...

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Hello Blisshous,
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3867
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Users & Groups or click Parental Controls.
Click the lock icon to unlock it, and then type an administrator name and password.
Select the user account you want to delete, and then click Delete below the account list.
Do one of the following:
Select “Save the home folder in a disk image” to save the folder as a disk image in /Users/Deleted Users/.
Select “Don’t change the home folder” to leave the home folder in /Users/.
Select “Delete the home folder” to remove it from the computer. If you want to prevent programs that read raw data from retrieving any files, select “Erase home folder securely.”
Click OK.
Keep in mind, if you remove the user and delete the data, without Time Machine you will not be able to restore any data from it in the future.
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