iTunes 10 - incorrect ipod/iphone free space calculation

I guess they fixed it FINALLY!

Shortly befor the release of iOS 5 i ran into the stupid situation, that i actually had to remove about 100 MB of songs to copy 5 MB of new songs on an iPod that had about 1GB free memory.

But i just synced my iPhone and my iPod Nano and the capacity now does not jump around anymore. I have 7 GB of "on the fly" compressed music on it, and it stays there. in ALL earlyer versions iTunes could not definitely determine whether there were 9.3 (uncompressed) or the correct 7GB of music.

On first sync after the update to iOS5 i had to rebuild the intire music contents of the iPhone, because all synced titles (it took about 2 hours) were just empty unplayable things. The sync for the 9.3GB uncompressed music to 7GB compressed files took 4 hours then. Now everything plays.

I guess it is fixed now. Thanks Apple, but shame on you as well...

Leaving such a stupid thing broken for about one year is just not acceptable.

Don't know whether the problem with the pictures is related to this - think this is another issue then.

Nice for you! But the problem with the picture size is still there for me. Never had problems with the mp3 size though (i don't compress them to 128k).

Reinstalling iTunes over the previous version fixed the error of showing incorrect free space for me. Thanks Effim!

Not for me 😟

Try to remove all the music (unckeck "Sync Music" completely) sync the device without the music, check "Sync Music" again and do another sync. (...and wait a looooong time)

It now works on my iPod shuffle (no recent update, no iOS5) as well. So iTunes, and nod the ..Pods is the culprit.

Reinstalling iTunes over the previous version fixed the error for me as well. For some reason, downloading the package from Apple, closing Itunes, and running it overwrote a lot of files. Not sure why it worked differently than the update. Perhaps files are in use sometimes? Just guessing.

Yep - That worked for me too. Thanks for the tip! Not sure what was causing this, but I think it happened after the latest update.

I didn't notice the change in updated to the iTunes software, but I have noticed the change after I upgraded from a 3Gs to a 4s phone last year. Mid-sync my capacity fluctuated by 14GB until I unsyncd and recyncd my music.... once. When I synced again, the capacity bar reverted to showing ~14GB less capacity than I believe I have.

I'll try the iTunes re-install next.

I've tried everything but I'm still getting this problem. I unsynced and deleted all the audio from my iPhone and it still takes up 4GB. So it's added on 4 extra GBs no matter what. Any other fixes out there?

I'm having the same issue, 5.0.1, 3GS, iTunes 10.5.3 - says my iPhone is 0.11GB over capacity, but my phone actually has over 250MB of free space.

This is infuriating - makes putting podcasts on a nightmare. iTunes really is dreadful.

same problem here... iTunes 10.5.3 with iOS 5.0.1... iTunes states a different size then what is on my iPhone. Also I deleted songs off my iPhone but they still show up in iTunes after I sync.. The iPhone itself says that I have 15K songs (in the settings menu) but I only have 24 albums on the iPhone

Just to add to the number of infuriated users, I too have the same problem. It is hard to believe or perhaps it should not be that Apple has allowed this situation to persist for so long. This and the amalgamation of OSX with iOS is having many of begin to rethink our continuing to subscribe to Apple products.

i seem to have stumbled on a solution,

in my case i had recently added photos when the problem started and this is what caused the problem, when i unticked photos on the iphone tab of itunes it solved the 'no free space' problem so i guess you should try unticking the section to which you made a change at the time of the problrm,

hope this helps!

also for people with photo syncing problems i suggest deleting the ipod photo cache as this solved my problem as my photo folders are constantly changing and i dont think this worked to well with the photo cache

I cannot fix mine. I have an ipod 3rd gen with 8GB. I had itunes 10.6.1. I have not tried to add anything recently so I amnot sure when this started, but today it is a big problem. I also made the mistake of taking things off the ipod to 'make room'. Itunes did not recognize the free space. It says I have 3MB left, where the ipod itself says I have 19MB. itunes says it is taken up by almost all audio

I have no videos or photos, only 4 apps. I have 287 songs and I took off a lot of audio I wanted on there to study. Now it won't let me put anything back.

I have tried downloading an older version of itunes. Then you have to manipulate your itunes libraries so it will even open (it needs an older version). Then all my playlists were gone in itunes itself. This did not help the problem anyway, so I will put all the latest back.

Does anyone have any ideas. Apple wants to charge me just to talk to me. This is BS! If I cannot find any answers here I am going to apple store to scream at them