My ipod has a capacity of 148.79
Songs on it are 146.46
But it only shows fee space as 280MB
I reduced the bit rate (and therefore the size) of some songs yet when I re-sychronised the free space had REDUCED not increased
Any explanation?
iPod classic 160GB (Late 2009)
may be a bad sector on hard drive. you can put the ipod in disk mode then restore and add music.
Does this mean I would need to reload all the songs?
Does the sleeve artwork (about 4000 albums) take up much space?
Will defragmenting while plugged into the coputer help?
Yes, restore removes all info.
Sleeve artwork does not take up too much space. have have over 146 GB to use up.
Defragmentation will help a little. It would be better to put ipod in diagnostic mode to see how bad the hard drive is. use https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3784647?tstart= to put in diagnostic mode.
I have 14 Retracts and 3424 Reallocs
It is only 18 monts old and most of this time has been filling it rather than listening to it
restracts and realocs are bad. only 18 months old I would try to contact apple to fix it. if you are out of warranty then you need to replace the hard drive or get apple to do it (apple charges $129).
I did the scan and fix which took 3 hours and left even less space (242). Will restore to factory settings help?
You can feel free to try restore or get the hard drive replaced.
iPod Classic storage capacity
