Too many songs - techniques?

hey all;
so I actually have an iPhone, but this thread is more iPod/music related.
the bottom line is, I have way too many songs on iTunes for my 32GB iPhone. I've done the following:
-downsample songs that have high bitrates to 19kbps (the lowest i'm wil;ing to accept, down from 256)
-uncheck artists who have a lot of music but I don't listen to (that's you, death metal days...)
-get rid of 45 minute songs and such that I don't listen to
-delete most of the comedy stuff
-get rid of apps that take up a lot of space
-take off most of the photos and all of the videos
i've managed to save a decent amount of space, but not much. I avoided a crises two months ago, but its impending again.
the problem is, I'm not ready to part with much else and I'm quickly running out of room. Of the over 5400 songs in iTunes, about 5000 made it onto my iPhone.
I'm really not willing to random shuffle the songs on my iPhone, and I do have nested folders with my most recent playlists etc.
So my question really is, does anyone out there have any other techniques they use for trimming down what gets synced to their devices? any ideas are appreciated...
thanks,
ekozie

This would be more appropriate in the iphone forum. Very few will see it here.
We use playlists for our iphones. This allows us to sync whatever we feel like at the time, and can easily change our selections.

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