HELP MY NANO IS ONLY HOLDING 100 SONGS!

Hey, i was just trying to put some music on my nano, i had 117 songs on it, i tryed to put 1 on and it said it was full, i looked at the bottom of the screen on itunes and it said i had filled it up!, so i deleted all my songs and it still said that 1.6gb was on it, what the **** is happening?

Lol. A similar thing happened to me when I first got mine. First I had 14 songs and it said I had 1.3 GB left. I deleted all my songs and it still said I had 1.3 GB left, lol. Now heres the trick I used to restore all my space, even though you'll have to re-upload all your songs. Just go to the ipod updater in start menu and click on the ipod update option. Then follow the process and click on "restore to factory condition". If it says ipod cannot lock, first exit all ipod applications, restart the ipod by holding the menu and middle button. Then put on hold if you like, and keep trying to restore till it works. That should fix the problem.

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*Correct me if Im wrong, but isn't this nano supposed to hold 500 songs?*
The advertised song capacity of any of the iPods is a calculation based on 4 minute songs encoded in AAC format at a bit rate of 128 kbps. Longer songs and songs encoded at a higher bitrate or in uncompressed formats take up more space. If for example you were to import full size, uncompressed CD files (AIFF format) or WAV files you would get significantly fewer on. What format are the songs you have imported? 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. Remember too that if you are using a higher bit rate than 128 kbps even song files in ACC format will be larger: iTunes: About import settings and hard disk space
*What would be other?*
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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.
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As it happans I am a wizz on the keboard and can help.
when apple say the iPod nano 2GB can fit what 500 songs?, they estimate this at ACC encoding 128 kbps, at 4 MB per song.
If you have imported your music from CD then it is probally in the uncommpressed format of AIFF, which takes up 20 time more space!!!
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Now you should delete your ebtire library of the big AIFF files and under file add new folder, and add the folder that you converted your music too (by default this will be C:/documents and setting/my documents/my music
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