1GB of "Other" is listed as taking up space on my IPOD

I have about 600 songs on my IPOD. I realize that many of these songs are more than the standard 4 minutes to get to the 1000 song threshold. However, when I read the summary on Itunes it says that there is about 1G of "OTHER" on my IPOD. What is this? I'd like to maximize my ipod. I did use my ipod as a hard drive to transfer some songs awhile back. How could I tell that this isn't the "Other" that's taking up a gig?
Thanks.

The storage space taken up by "Other" can be made up of, notes or files of any kind you've added to the iPod whilst using it as a hard disk.
There will always be a few MBs of used space under "other" but if it's in GBs it's unusually large.
If the iPod is enabled for disk use, you can look at the folders on the iPod through Explorer or Finder and delete anything you don't want.
Otherwise, see how to restore the iPod to factory settings which will erase the iPods contents and reclaim the used space.
Then reload the music from iTunes.

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