Checking song format on iPod

I have 3,276 songs on my 30 gig pod. I've used half the space. My friend says I sholdn't have used that much space for that many songs. He said I should check the format of the songs that are being downloaded. How can I check for that, and then maybe change the format to allow me to use less when addding new songs? Thanks

Go to iTunes and right click on one of your songs, choose Get Info>Summary and look at "Kind" to see what format you are using. Alternatively, right click at the top of any column in the iTunes library and choose Kind from the menu: iTunes: About import settings and hard disk space
The figures quoted by Apple assumes that the songs are exactly 4 minutes in length in AAC format encoded at 128Kbps; if your songs are longer, encoded at a higher bitrate, or encoded in a format such as AIFF or Apple Lossless, fewer of them will fit on an iPod.

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