iTunes doesn't like wasting music space

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   El Aura Reply 21. Dec, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Does this still leave some free space? On an iPhone/iPod touch, one would want to have some space at least to download e-mails etc..

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   Jenn Reply 22. Dec, 2009 at 7:06 pm

   Hmm…greta option but have not seen yet on my ipod classic. will need to double check.

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   chartier Reply 21. Dec, 2009 at 4:43 pm

   I'm trying it right now. I have 1,467 items to sync, so I'll report back when it's done.

   David Chartier
   Finer Things site owner

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   chartier Reply 21. Dec, 2009 at 5:09 pm

   So, keeping in mind that a 32GB iPhone only reports 29.33GB of free space for storing media and apps, turning on this feature left 483.9MB of free space after syncing a bunch of random music.

   A bummer about this feature, however, is that I can't find a way to see *what* music was synced. There is no auto-generated playlist on my iPhone, no special section elsewhere in the iPod app. As far as I can tell, it's just a bunch of extra music that you'd have to manually add to a playlist on the device or stumble across by browsing the artist list or shuffling all music.

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   chartier Reply 22. Dec, 2009 at 8:21 pm

   I'd be very interested to hear. Please detail your setup as well—are you on 10.5, 10.6, iTunes 9.0.2, which is the latest version (as of this writing) where I saw the feature?

   David Chartier
   Finer Things site owner

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