I'm confused... My iPod is about full with just over 1500 songs??

Can someone please help me? I am new to all of this MP3 player business, but I am confused about my 5th gen iPod. I bought the 16gb instead of 8 so I could have lots of songs, but still tape my lectures at school. I have only ~1500 songs, but it is just about full. When I bought it, it said it holds about 4000 songs. Did I do something wrong? All I did was pop a CD into my computer, iTunes downloaded the info, and then I synced my iPod. Is there a reason I don't even have half of what I should have?
Please help.
Thank you.

Which format do you encode your tracks (e.g. MP3, AIFF, Apple Lossless, etc.) and for the compressed ones, at what bit rate (e.g. 128, 160, etc.)? And are a lot of your songs long ones?
Encoding and bit rate both effect file size. Apple's estimates on how many songs your iPod can hold are based on 128 kbps AAC files that average something like 3 or 4 minutes (I forget which). Long songs, higher bit rates, and other formats (AIFF, WAV, and Apple Lossless in particular) will result in much larger file sizes and more space taken up by your library.
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