Barely any songs fit on my 30 GB

i have a video 30 GB iPod.
and i have 1,362 selected songs that i want to put on it.
just those songs alone equal 35.33 GB so i cant fit them all.
but wasnt this supposed to store WAY MORE songs than a little over a thousand?
what am i doing wrong?

Yes, it does. WAV is an uncompressed format with huge file sizes as you can see. When Apple quotes a specific capacity for any iPod, that is based on the average 4 minutes song encoded in AAC @ 128 kbps. AAC @128 on a 4 minute song should give a file size of 3-4 mb, so you can see your files sizes are about 20x what they should be. You can either encode is AAC or mp3 for smaller file sizes. AAC files are supposed to have higher audio quality at lower bitrates which mean smaller file sizes. For example, AAC @ 128 should = the audio quality of mp3 @ 160. The 2 things that affect files size are first the format, uncompressed such as WAV, AIFF or compressed such as AAC or mp3. The next thing is the bitrate, the larger the bitrate, the larger the file size. Hope this helps.
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