ITunes synced 20 GB of music to somewhere on my phone that isn't the music directory and saved it as "Other." How do I delete it?
I got a new computer so I went to sync my phone and put music back on it.. so i erased everything off that was originally on it so I could sync with the new computer and it wasn't working... so I restored from a backup and updated. Tried again and it worked, I watched as it copied each song. Sync finished, checked the Music app on my phone and it had nothing except for a couple of iTunes freebies that are available to download through the cloud. Went back to iTunes to try again and I realized that instead of having 20 GB of music, it showed that I had 20 GB added to "Other." Now I can't delete the music off of my phone because it didn't save to the phone as music.
After it failed to work, I was in the process of adding music to my library still and it synced to my phone through the same playlist that I specified to sync originally. I officially have 1 song... when i should have 2700 songs. IDK why it worked for that one song and not the others, but I can't manipulate the 20 GB of music - it is now just used storage space on my phone that I can't touch.
All the music plays. Literally took it off of my old hard drive I used to sync from and put it on my new computer. It all works. I don't know why it wouldn't work or why it would sync all f'ed up.
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