Other Memory issue IPOD Nano 8GB

My new 8GB Ipod Nano is indicating that 4.6 GB of memory is under other? Does any one know how to delete other so I can add more songs. I can only hold 526 songs on a 8GB Nano??? Is this a known memory problem?
Any help would be appreciated

There certainly should NOT be 4.6GB of "other". This indicates that your PC wrote files on to the iPod that the iPod cannot read.
In iTunes, set the iPod so that disk use is allowed - this mounts the iPod like any other disk in My Computer (Windows) or the desktop (Mac). Look to see what is there, it might give you a clue. You can also "Restore" the iPod in iTunes to wipe it clean.
I have seen this occur on a friend's iPod when her automatic backup system assumed that the iPod was a destination disk and wrote a system backup to it. This happens only in Windows due to Microsoft's continued use of lettered drives rather than real disk names - the iPod had temporarily used the same letter as her regular backup drive and thus the backup program wrote to it. On Macs there are no letter drives and so each one is correctly recognized by name.

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