Why is iTunes 11 taking so long to sync music to my iPod Touch Gen 5?

I have the latest version of iTunes installed on my Macbook, mid-2012 (Mountain Lion OS). I recently upgrade my iPod Touch 5 (64GB) to iOS7, and in the process, was forced to reload all 10,000+ or so songs in my library onto the iPod again.  I have the conversion checkbox set to "128K" for my music, so that I can cram more songs into the iPod, and it literally took 32 hours before the "syncing" stopped.  I tried again, just for the **** of it, with the conversion unchecked, and it was much faster, but still took 5-6 hours to transfer a reduced number of songs.  Before iOS 7, and before the new iTunes revision, this process, with conversion, took a couple of hours for 10,000 songs - maybe a little more - but certainly nowhere near 30 hours!
Is anyone else having this experience?

Hi there Alex0221,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
iOS: "Not enough free space" alert when trying to sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1503
-Griff W. 

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