Importing music from CDs onto iPod

Hi there,
I have an iPod Nano 1GB. I am having a problem because I only have 28 songs on it, but it says it is almost full! The songs I purchased from iTunes are very small (3-4 MB), but the songs I tried to transfer from my CDs are much larger (25+ MB). I imported the songs using iTunes and then moved them from the library into the selected playlist that I want to sync from. I don't understand why they aren't compressed. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks for your help!!

Do you have the imported songs on your computer? You can choose to copy files to Itunes Music Folder.(You can find the folder in the preferences/advanced/general tab) If you did, then you can check the file sizes. If the size is too large, I would delete them, and I would re-import using the MP3 encoder and 128Kps(Good Quality). This setting will give you about 5MB per song. Go to edit/preferences/advanced/importing/ to change the setting.
To diagnose your current problem, I would remove the songs with the large file size from your library (you can probably just remove the checkmark in the ipod library) and update the ipod. Then, disconnect the Ipod, and check the space available. If you agree with it, then the import setting is the problem. You will need to right click and clear the files from your Ipod library as well as deleting the copy from your computer, then re-import. If the large files are not the problem, then your ipod probably isn't properly formatted. I would then run the updater to fix it and properly format it.

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