Ipod only fills up half way

i got a 2gb nano, but it will only hold 1gb of songs, and i checked the status of my ipod, and there is 1gb of "other" stuff on my ipod. but i have no idea what it could be, i don't have anything else on my ipod besides songs. Does anyone know why this might be?

The storage space taken up by "Other" can be made up of, notes or files of any kind you've added to the iPod whilst using it as a hard disk or album artwork.
There will always be a few MBs of used space under "other" but if it's in GBs it's unusually large.
If the iPod is enabled for disk use, you can look at the folders on the iPod through Explorer or Finder and delete anything you don't want.
Otherwise, see how to restore the iPod to factory settings which will erase the iPods contents and reclaim the used space.
Then reload the music from iTunes.

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