iPod Question about 5G iPod. "Audio," "Free Space"..."Other?"

[thecrunge8]

Restore

Well I've successfully gotten the other to go away by doing a restore. It took me a long time because I had to import all my CD's again for backup, but I now have my space back.
By the way, cool Dutch screenshot, TaranQ!

 

[NicoleiTouch]

Same

I Have Exactly The Same Problem. Except Mine Takes Up 8.67GB

 

[enochperson]

If you have a Mac, select your Ipod drive, and then empty your trash. Macs do not automatically delete items on a jump drive until you empty the trash.

 

[quantumjerome]

thank you so much enochperson.
took your advice and also deleted some thumbnails from the pictures folder and my 'other' decreased from 50+ gb to 408 mb
you saved me brother!

 

[Twinslie]

I know this is an old thread

But I think I have some insight as to what "Other" can compromise of.

The newer model of cars can play iPod music using a USB cord. When I would plug it in to the specifically made iPod USB I would only be allowed to play a very smaller selection of the music I had on my iPod. Something like nearly 800 songs out of my 3000+. More over some of the songs that I was allowed to play were songs I was pretty sure that I deleted sometime ago. Once I got back to my computer I noticed "Oh hey I did delete those songs." At about that time I noted that the songs played equaled to about the space used on my "Other" bar. So I restored my iPod and the "Other" is wiped. So I imagine it's also potentially deleted songs that you didn't want. Perhaps opted to "Keep" instead of "Move to recycle bin" Or something rather.

My problem is that now my iPod won't play any songs. It's "unable to read USB" Or "Errors." So I wish very much that I didn't restore it. Or perhaps I could find a way to "Other" some other songs. But as they weren't on my iTunes or noticeably on my iPod I'll have to agree that it's files iPod doesn't recognize. Any insight for getting it to work in the car though?

 

[bitflop]

These are, 50 % in my case, orphan audio recordings taken by the builtin audio recorder app .
Internally they are located in the following iPhone path
/private/var/mobile/Media/Recordings
I deleted them using iFile app from Cydia (jailbroken iphone)

regards

 

[KTBee]

Another iPod "Other" question

I'm quite the computer novice, even using such a user-friendly computer like a MacBook so here's my question:
I was trying to move music from my external hard drive onto my iPod and, trying to bypass using iTunes to move the files, I created a folder on my desktop and dragged the new folder directly into the iPod icon that's in the Finder window. Now, as I look through the music that is on my actual iPod and compare that with the files that the iPod icon shows in the Finder window, they don't match up at all.
Now my question: What does this mean? And did I do something wrong by dragging the folder directly to the iPod icon in the Finder window? Where'd all the music go?!