Free space. Trouble loading music to ipod nano

I bought a 2GB Nano today but although it is supposed to hold about 500 songs, I can only load about 1/3 of that volume. Am I just being really blonde or can someone explain how to correct this. Also, I used to have a shuffle and it was much easier to upload music to it with the 'autofill' feature. When my nano is plugged in, the 'autofill' feature doesnt display. Why is it so hard to upload music.

However, my 2GB iPod nano still only stores 132 randomly selected songs from my library and fills up the memory.
I'm a little confused by this. The 2GB Nano doesn't have an autofill feature like the shuffle does. How exactly are you getting a "random" selection of songs?
Are you using manual updates for your Nano and picking the songs you want on it?
If your songs are all 128kbps AAC files of around 4 minutes each... and you can really only fit 130 tracks on the iPod... then you might want to try restoring your iPod and syncing your music again.
Additionally, the importing settings are only for NEWLY IMPORTED tracks. Changing those settings won't affect tracks that are already in your iTunes library.
Is it possible that you have songs in your library that are encoded higher than 128kbps? You can do a 'Get Info' on some of your tracks and check the encoding bitrate.

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