IPod Capacity "Other"

I have no Photos or Videos on my iPod.
In iTunes 7.02 the capacity bar in the iPod window for my 60Gb shows:
Audio = 52.3Gb Other = 1.34Gb.
What exactly is Other? This seems like an awful lot of wasted space.

Album art downloaded by iTunes is not embedded into file only artwork you add manually.
Other is many things, firmware, album art, contacts, anything added in disk mode. Games, and photos get their own sections. Podcasts are in audio or video section depending on type of podcast.
Your other seems pretty big to me. I have 40GB audio, 5GB video, 800MB other.

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As a family we have a few ipods of differing sizes and generations. All working fine apart from one thing.
When I check for capacity usage in itunes two of the ipods show quite a lot of memory taken up under the 'other' catagory. Does anyone know how I can reduce the amount of information stored under this area? One of the ipod nanos has almost half of it's current space used up by this catagory of data.
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This is true for every iPod, computer, hard disk, storage device etc.
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My wife has a large iTunes library. It is composed of a large number of mpg files converted from CDs. Many of the songs she doesn't care to have on her iPod, they merely came with the CD.
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Note restoring should clear all files from the iPod's drive however sometimes it doesn't actually seem to work. Options include manually deleting all visible & hidden files & folders via Explorer/Finder or formatting the drive.
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I've had this problem for a while, but I could never really figure out what terms to search for to find an answer, so I decided to just ignore it.
In iTunes, when my iPod is plugged in, I can select it from the menu pane on the left (thats normal.) But in the capacity graph, where it usually shows a break up of video, music, picture and free space, it shows that songs are taking up around 628,742,88.77 GB, and therefore it fills the bar.
Nothing I can't live with, but I figured if there were a solution out there, it wouldn't hurt
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Sounds like it has a drive collision with another device, would you happen to have an external drive or are you on a network, or do you have a printer with memory slots?
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