IPad 3 keeps syncing music!

On the summary page....I have the iPad set to manually manage music & the "sync only checked songs" is greyed out. On the music tab... "sync music" is also unchecked. However, after I sync apps, books, etc, the music begins to automatically sync to the iPad. How do I stop this? It is maddening to me. I have a large volume of songs in my itunes, but do not want them on my ipad. Any help is greatly appreciated

HI. I have a similar problem. I only want to download music videos so have selected include music videos and also in playlists. Nothing else.
YEt whenever I sync purchased music is still downloaded ?
Any ideas please ?

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Open itunes - connect device by usb, when device summary page opens (clicking device icon at left to do this)
In <options> at bottom of page tick box - Manually manage music and videos
A tick in the box to limit higher bit rate songs to 128kbps does not do any harm either and will save you some space.
192 and 256 kbps are true high fidelity sampling rates and you would want real high quality speakers to appreciate the kind of detail these high rates can handle.
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