I have 5GBs of free space. Itunes saying not enough space to sink. Help?

My IPhone says I have 5GBs of free space. When I try and sync my music a message pops up saying I need 2.24 more GBs and that my phone won't hold all of my selections. I have already deleted 1000 songs that I had on there from my previous sync and it still doesn't work. I had 2900 songs on there before have cut it down to 1900 and still nothing. Anyway to solve this problem?
Thanks,
AM

Don't delete items on the iPhone. Syncing will take care of this.
You need to delete times you have selected to sync.
Create playlist(s) and add songs, You can see how large these playlists are.
You can then sync only those playlists.

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