Differences in space occupied by music on iphone

Hello,
I am finding differences in the space occupied by music on my iphone, depending on where I look. If I stand on the "summary" tab, I see 24.03 GB of music; if I go to the music library in my iphone, however, I see 19.56 GB. I used the convert to 128 kbps option, but this issues are restricted to the iphone only (my main library is OK). I do not have other audio media different from my music, so I don't know what could be occupying those extra 4GB. What could be happening? How can I get that space back?

I am finding the same issue. My iTunes library says it is 6826 items 25.89GB which includes some songs that are a higher bit rate than 128kbps. When I sync my iPhone 4, I have it checked to covert higher bit rate songs to 128kbps AAC. I also have a few items not checked to transfer over. When I sync, my iPhone 4 says there are 6,811 items and the capacity bar shows that audio is taking up 27.30GB. So there is about 1.5GB difference there, especially when you factor in some downsizing of songs and not syncing a few more. I know that's a lot of songs but I cannot imagine that album artwork could take up that much space. Obviously I'd like to figure out what causes the discrepancy as 1.5GB is a lot of space.

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