How many songs can i jam on this thing

I have a 10gig ipod so far i have about 6gigs used and only about 260 songs on it. I thought it would take something like 10,000 songs.
do they all have to be in mp3 format for that to happen?
is there any way to have apple lossless format on the computer and mp3 on the ipod?
that way i keep the better quality at least on the computer?
sorry this is so stupid
thanks

Sounds like your song files are really big. I would go into your music folder and choose a song file and get info from the file menu on it. My guess is the thing will be huge. A song should be about 4mb or so in size (average). Of course, it it is a longer or shorter song this will vary, and change the amount of songs on your ipod.
If your songs are large I would convert them all to aac format in itunes and then delete the originals.

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