Bad estimate of iPad available memory during iTunes Sync

All my music is in apple lossless format. When synchronizing with iTunes , I check the option to convert to 128 kbps. iTunes does the conversion however the available memory estimate is done using the full size of lossless format. As a result my iPad is half empty since Itunes believe it is full and refuse to synchronize more stuff.
I did have this issue with earlier versions of iTunes (9.x).
I went to a genius bar, but they had no clues...

Bad wording, I didn't have this issue with iTunes 9.x, but have it with iTunes 10.x and 11.x

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I was looking through my pictures on iPhoto on my iPad 2 and noticed in some of my albums there were duplicate pictures, but on iPhoto on my iMac there wasn't. I had also noticed that my 64GB iPad 2 had only a little over 14GB left for available memory. I decided to connect my iPad2 to my iMac and sync it with itunes but this time I unchecked Sync Photos. I was asked to remove photos which I agreed to. My intnet was to re-install my photos in hopes that I would no longer see the duplicate photos and quite possibly free up some memory. In short, none of that worked and instead the pictures remained on my iPad2 and my available memory jumped to 956MB. I then tried selecting a " Selected Events, Faces, Albums..." in the Photo section of iTunes but I did not select any albums or events or faces. The sync ended and I still had all of the pictures on my iPad2 with 7GB left of available memory showing on my iPad2 but now showing 12GB on my iTunes on the iMac.
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Brock_DB wrote:
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