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What is this "other" you speak of?

Stevie2SxcStevie2Sxc __BANNED USERS regular
edited April 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I've been wondering about this for a long time. Whenever I sync my iTunes library to my iPod the bar showing how much is full always shows this little bit of orange labelled as "other" taking up space on my iPod.

Just what the hell is "other" and more importantly how do I get rid of it?

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Probably files related to the firmware and starting up and running shit on the ipod.

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  • RecklessReckless Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Most likely, the operating software and the bit of storage space that gets 'lost in translation.'

    See: http://compreviews.about.com/od/storage/a/ActualHDSizes.htm

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  • vonPoonBurGervonPoonBurGer Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Pfft, you're all wrong. It's the embedded database that's stored on your iPod and keeps track of when you last played a song, what songs are in which playlists, your ratings for songs, probably also their MP3 metatags for sorting purposes (so it can get all that info quickly from the DB rather than scanning the whole drive and loading it from the MP3 metadata headers), etc. Without that DB, you have no playlists and the UI probably wouldn't even work. Apparently it's stored in a hidden folder on the iPod (/iPod_Control/iTunes), but I wouldn't recommend messing with it.

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  • Gilbert0Gilbert0 North of SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    And if you have games on there, that's where they go. Peggle on the go is awsome.

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  • yalborapyalborap Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It also represents anything you've copied onto your ipod's hard drive for storage. For instance, I have a few gigs taken up by 'other' due to dropping a backup copy of my photo library into mine as full-res files, instead of the reduced-resolution portfolio set I keep in as actual pictures to view.

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  • ronzoronzo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    i think album artwork falls into this category as well

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