30 GB iPod - 8 GB "Other" Used - What is Other, & new software won't D/L

This has been driving me insane.
1) When I plug in my iPod and that page comes up with the iPod info, it says that 8GB of my capacity is used due to "other". And due to that, I have no more room on my iPod, even though I don't have any videos or podcasts, and I can only put around 4500 songs.
2) I'm trying to download the new iTunes software and the new iPod software. The iTunes software won't download because it says that there's something wrong with the iPod software...and I tried to update the iPod software and I keep getting an error message that says:
"The iPod could not be updated. An unknown error occured (1417)."
Someone help. I'm desperate.

I have been wondering the same thing. So I did some testing and I found other is Album artwork and something else.
In my iTunes there is
Audio 29.21GB
Video 576.9MB
Photos 5.9MB
Other 444.4MB
Free Space 25.58MB
Photos cannot be the answer because photos have their own spot. I tried removing them anyway and the "other" size stayed the same.
When I turned off "Show album artwork on your iPod" the other category went from 444.4MB down to 106.5MB
That 106.5MB leftover is not contacts or notes because I do not have any. I also do not have any TV shows to test but I suspect those increase the Video size as movies do.
When I removed the movies the other size went down to 103.1.
When I removed podcasts it went to 67.7MB
I am guessing that "Other" is all the extra files that add meaning to the video/audio/picture files. The thumbnails for the album artwork, the enhanced part of a podcast and so on.

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