What's this "other" in the memory?

I'm runnign out of space on my ipod mini and i only ahve 700 songs but this "other" stuff is taking up 800 mb about. What do i do? how do i get this "other" stuff off my ipod? please help!! thanks

Thanks for your help. I found out that there were many files of music that were in a different format then what you need to play on ur ipod, so they were just sitting there on it. When i deleted them all i only have like no more of that "other" stuff. Thanks.

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