"About This Mac" disc usage wrong.

In short I have a 480GB SSD by OWC. The audio alone, according to "About This Mac", is over 581.14GB... Something is obviously not adding correctly.
I must admit, I had a couple of iPods that I downloaded music from to a VMware running Mac OS 10.9.4. The host OS is something that I can't mention...
I used the Hudini for Mac on the 10.9.4 WMware OS to unhide the music.
Since I noticed this disc usage inaccuracy. I've deleted most of the music. Because at one point it was showing over 1TB for the audio.
I've also did a command R at start up and ran Disc Permission and Repair.
I also turned off Time Machine, reboot, turned TM back on, reboot. (Someone else had the opposite disc usage and this helped.)
My next thought is to delete the Mac OS 10.9.4 via VMware, as this was where I originally downloaded the music from an iPod. I went through the music and transferred over to the host OS the selection that I wanted to keep. When I Get Info on the music app via Mac OS X ssd ▸ Users ▸ KOT ▸ Music ▸ iTunes ▸ iTunes Media it comes up with a little over 17GB.
Thank you,
KOT

I really wish that I could say that this helped. But it made it worse.
It's now saying that I have 15.6TB of Photos, 4.77TB of Audio, 4.26TB of Movies and 34.6GB of Apps.
I tried it twice. Once when I was using the Mac, then when I saw that it made it worse. I did it again, though I left it in the "Don't spotlight" list, rebooted and finished what I had to do. When I was ready to be done with the computer. I removed it from the list and put the display to sleep. Came back a couple of hours later and found it the same way when I tried it the first time.
Now that the rest of the stuff, such as Photos, Movies and Apps are overly "used". I am beginning to think that it's a Y.... thing for right now.
Thanks for your thought though.
KOT

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