Ipod is already running out of space!

I have the ipod touch 8g, and only have a little over 700 songs on it and it's already almost full! There's about 1g of memory left! This can't be right, thought I'd at least be able to get 1,000 songs on there???
The audio file type is AAC, I was told thats how I should be storing my tunes...hmmm, any suggestions as to whats gone wrong???

The higher the kilobits per second (kbps), the higher the audio quality and the larger the file size. The most common bit rate for stereo AAC files is 128 kbps. iTunes Plus songs from the iTunes store are now 256 kbps, twice the size.
You can use iTunes to make a copy of a song at a lower kbps if you really need more songs on your iPod. This happens automatically while syncing to an iPod Shuffle (only), but you have to do the conversion yourself for other iPods. This document explains how: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1550
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