11GB 'Other' filling up my iPod

I have 16GB of music on my 30GB iPod, and until yesterday had loads more space as 'other' only occupied just over 1GB of my iPod capacity. For no apparent reason, however, the amount of space taken up by 'other' is now well over 10GB!! How and why has this happened? I just updated it once and suddenly it was ten times the size. Now I've run out of space to add new music!
I know that it's not all album artwork because I deleted it from my iPod and it only reduced the 'other' section by a 1GB.
Help me please!

Have you tried to put movies or anything else on your iPod. That is what the "other" might be. To get it off try the following it might work...
This bar should not take more than few megabytes so you must have used your iPod in disk mode and added files through My Computer. To delete these go to My Computer > iPod (make sure your iPod "disk use" is enabled in iTunes) and delete the files you added there. DO NOT try to delete any files/folders that you did not create as it will mess up your iPod.
If this post helped or solved your problem please mark so thanks, Zack

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