Ipad not syncing because 'Other' as expanded to 27GB and there is not enough free space.

I have an IPad mini 64GB.  ITunes 12.0.1.26 on Windows.  I was having problems adding a CD to my IPad that I recently added to ITunes.  After syncing the CD didn't seem to add to the IPad, after fiddling about with it a bit (don't quite know what I did, nothing major adding it to a playlist and trying to re-rip it to a different format), ITunes is showing that the yellow 'Other' portion of the space is now 27GB!! And won't let me sync as I am now over by 7.63GB.
Also when I looked at my music that was on my IPad it seems weird/corrupted.  Showing a red icon against every song and not playing anything.
Any idea how to get rid of this massive amount of 'Other' stuff?
Thanks,

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