'Automatic' filling of free space

Maybe this is more of an iphone question, but hey. My question is, when I am syncing my iphone with itunes, and I select a few playlists which have a total size of 1.4gb, and then when I instruct itunes to 'automatically fill space with songs' - which, to my mind, should be a random selection - and that free space is some 13gb - I seem to always have the same songs! Is there a way I can make the selection more random? I have nearly 8000 songs in itunes, yet seem to hear the same 100 on my iphone?
Thanks!

I see that there are many similar discussions here, but no-one seems to have resolved this...? Anyone?

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Had a search but couldn't see the answer.
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When iTunes automatically fills free space with songs, where are these songs listed?
I am very nearly at my limit, so been deleting a few playlists but as I was doing that, it seemed to be filling back up again just as quick.
So I deselected the 'Automatically fill free space with songs' button, and the capacity has stayed exactly the same?
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When iTunes automatically fills free space with songs, where are these songs listed?
Under Songs, Artsts, Albums, etc.
They are not in any playlist.
I am very nearly at my limit, so been deleting a few playlists but as I was doing that, it seemed to be filling back up again just as quick.
That menas that it is working exactly as it should.
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