"Other" category in iTunes capacity bar

Well, is your ipod set to "enable disk use"? I do, i use my ipod sometimes at school to carry around documents and stuff, and it works as a backup for some things i don't wanna lose.

You could check this by seeing what's on your ipod, just as you would on any USB, then you'd see what is on your ipod.

Games also go to "others".

Preference list, bookmarks, playlists?

does album art downloaded automatically from the store go there as well or is that stored under audio ?

when your ipod is set to enable disk use, all the files you put on it when you use it as an external hard drive constitute as OTHER i.e: documents, software installers etc.. even photos and music files that you put on your ipod by not using itunes and simply dragging and dropping them on the external hard drive icon in My Computer will count as OTHER files.

album art downloaded automatically from the store is integrated into your mp3 files and is not put into OTHERS

ok thanks for that

no idea at all why mine shows at 2gig then - my podcasts will show in audio and the video casts in video

i sync'd everything via i-tunes - never bother with drag and drop cause half the time it doesnt work

oh well - never mind

album art downloaded automatically from the store is
integrated into your mp3 files and is not put into
OTHERS

That's not true. Navigate through your folders on the iPod -- you'll find that you have a folder containing Album Art. Mine's nearly 900MB.

oops.. sorry.. my bad. thanks for info.

I have not enabled disk use and still have 10 gb of Other.
any other ideas how to find out what it is. As so many people seem to have the same problem, i am surprised that apple have not issued anything. They should know what it is.

I restored my iPod and it took away all but >1mg of "Other" space...it only took a couple of minutes.

Good Luck.

Same issue here.

Brand new 80GB video iPod. On first connect it updated the iPod software. I have iTunes 7. Not disk enabled, have no photos, games, notes, videos yet.

I have 21GB taken up by about 6100 songs. Maybe 150 of those songs were purchased via iTunes. Only the iTunes downloads have album art, the remaining songs have none.

All of this and I have nearly 160MB of "OTHER". What gives?

The only thing it could be (other than regular system files, etc.) is the album art, correct? Then that would make each album art nearly 1MB. Is that true?

If so, then that is insane and I want to know if there is a way to remove album art from my iTunes purchased songs.

If album art isn't usually 1MB then why are mine or what else could it be?

I almost have a gb of other but I haven't enabled disk use. But I have over 100 videos and at least 3600 pieces of album art so that could be contributing to it.