Help!! How many songs should 20gb hold???

Hi, Ive got a 20gbphoto ipod - no photos on it, but 480 songs, yet its telling me its almost 18gb full?? How is this right - arent they meant to hold 5,000 songs?? Dont know where Ive gone wrong. Any ideas much appreciated!!
20GB Photo   Windows XP  

It's probably because you have the import settings and bitrate set wrong. Look in iTunes under edit/preferences/importing. What does it say in settings and import using? You need to compress your music using either mp3 or aac. If you see AIFF, WAV or Apple Lossless then those formats are going to take way more space than mp3 or aac, especially the first 2 which are raw uncompressed formats. Bear in mind that Apple quotes the number of songs you are able to store on any iPod by using aac at 128kbps for a 4 minute song.


See this article.


About import settings and hard disk space.

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