What is "others" in Itunes

Under Itunes, you have a horizontal graph where you can see the volume of data : Music, Apps, Pictures, ....
However I have also a orange part call "OTHERS" that is bigger and bigger without any reason...
Can you help me to find what can be these others??? (about 5Gb for me on my Iphone 4 - 16Gb)
Thank you the community for your help!

I follow another forum :
My "others" were about 5,1Gb , and now it's 0,9Gb that can be more acceptable
I just erase ALL files inside this folder (I'm using DiskAid) :
/private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control/Music/
I had inside many file as F01, F02, ...

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