I have no music on my iPad. I only have one playlist on my iPhone 4, but everything is on my iPod Classic even though I hardly listen to anything other than three or four playlists.
I've had a succession of iPods, iPhones and the iPad and have never stored more than a few dozen albums at a time on any device. I find it maddening to search through a lot of stuff that I thought would be cool to listen to at the time but later found to be uninteresting. I change up my content a lot.
Oooooooooooo.....my iPad nano
If you want reasons;I really don't understand people who feel they must have every song they have with them at all times on all their portable devices. Do they have a deep down fear of getting stranded on a desert island for the rest of their lives with it and really need hundreds or thousands of hours of songs to pass the time???Not everyone is a DJ...
Me, I keep it to a gb or two and rotate in/out various playlists. Also use ooTunes and Pandora at times...