Ipod is full with only 143 songs!

My 4GB ipod mini has only 23.1MB left of free space, but it only has 143 songs!!! The majority of my songs are MPEG audio files. I'm assuming that the format is part of the problem. Is there a way to convert the format once the songs are already in itunes? I don't have a way to get most of these songs again! I appreciate help!!! Thanks!
Danielle

It's not just the codec the file are saved in - check the individual and total file size of the music files.
If your 143 music files are approaching 3.6GBs, then you have them encoded with a very high bit rate. If not, then you may have an iPod memory management problem.
Post back with a bit more details and we can diagnose the issue a bit better.

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