How do check memory?

When the ipod is connected to itunes, there is a capacity bar shown at the bottom of the itunes screen.

If you look in the Apps section of your iTunes library, set the view to *View/As list* and then go into *View/View Options* and tick-on (check mark) the box marked size. There will now be a column called size which shows the memory used by each App. However, that is the size _of the App_ only, any data stored within the App (such as modified photos, notes etc. is in addition to that.

There's no way (that I know of) to check how much memory is being used by each App for user data. But it probably won't be that much! If you check the capacity bar that roaminggnome mentions, you can guage what is "hogging" your memory.

I'm curious by your use of the phrase "I fear my music is hogging space". Music, in the straight forward songs part of your iPod will almost certainly be using the majority of space as a total. A four minute song in mp3 format at 320kbps is using 9.6MB of space, while at 256kbps a song of the same time uses only 7.5MB of space and at 129kbps, only 4MB. So don't use a bit rate (the kbps) any higher than you need to. There's no point in using 320kbps if you cannot hear the difference between that and 256kbps. (Apple's AAC format will be approximately the same size as mp3s.)

As for Apps, my largest one (National Gallery picture App) is 223MB, while the smallest one (Gujarati clock) is only 178KB - tiny by comparison and neither of them has user data in them.

Phil

Space is different than memory.

If you have an 8GB iPod Touch then you have approximately 8GB (a little less) of space to keep your apps and music etc...

If you 32GB then you have about 32GB of space...
Same goes with the other sizes.
So, that is what you go by... GB of space.

As the above poster mentions, memory is a different thing and is built into the iPod and doesn't change.

amember wrote:
Is there a way to get a total number of Gigs used by these Apps from the iTunes store.

Not from the iTunes Store, I don't think. However, in Windows PCs (yes, I've spotted that you have a MAC), all the Apps are stored in a folder called *Mobile Applications* and if I hover my mouse over the folder, I get a pop-up showing the total size of all the Apps (but, as already mentioned, not the user data). Can you do the same with a MAC? The filepath in Windows is *My Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications* and *My Music* is the default folder used by iTunes.

The iPod gives me a total but looking at the list, it's hard to believe all 32 Gigs are almost all used up now.

Why? It depends what you have on there, and you you still haven't made it clear what that is. If you connect you iPod to iTunes, the capacity bar (on the Summary screen) will show you how much memory is being used by each media type. Mine are as follows:
1: Audio - 12.5GB - +CDs and audio Podcasts+
2: Video - 8.9GB - +videos and video Podcasts+
3: Photos - 0.08GB - +hhhmmm, not many photos+
4: Apps - 2.6GB - +157 Apps+
5: Books - 0.03GB - +including some pdf files I've written+
6: Other - 1.14GB - *this is the one to worry about, +see below+*
7: Free - 4.3GB
which gives a total of 29.55GB, which is actually greater than the total capacity reported by the Touch. (Don't worry about the the fact that the total used is apparently more than the total available. There are more important things in life to worry about, trust me.)

So most of my memory is being used by audio. I don't have much "music" on my iPod - in the form of my CDs etc., but I do have lots of Podcasts and they are part of the audio total. However, if I need to recover some memory, my best bet would be to remove some of my video files, since removing one video (even a short one) would allow me to put on several Apps or songs.

Other:
There will always be some Other reported, and it will change at each Sync, but if it's a large amount that indicates that the iPod has files it cannot read on it, possibly corrupt audio files. If all else fails, the usual way to get rid of Other is to do a Restore. Be warned, a Restore will remove all the content form the iPod and put back _only what's in your library._

I'm not worried about the amount of Other my iPod reports, even though it has increased recently.

Phil