Iphone sync - itunes library

I am having problems syncing my iphone 5. I am getting an error message which i believe is wrong.
The message is that i need another 10 GB to sync the contents of my itunes library. I don't think that i do need any extra memory, as i have not increased the size of my itunes library in the last three weeks. The amount of audio is 21.2 GB which is the amount of audio on my phone, and the phone still has 9.7 GB of free space.
I have tried a hard restart of the phone, and a reboot of the laptop. That didn't work. I have also run the disk repair utility. No disk permissions needed repair.
Can anyone suggest anything?

Photos, apps, movies, podcasts. None of these has increased in size since the last completed sync.
I am trying a suggestion I saw: turning each of the categories to be synced off, applying, syncing, and then turning each on and syncing again.
Don't know whether it will work until I return from work and complete the sync.

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