My 2G ipod only holds about 40 songs

Can anyone help me here?? I can not fit any more songs on my ipod and I only have 42. It is brand new, it is 2G. The box said like 250 songs? What am I doing wrong? Is it because I have all of my itunes in wave format? If so how do I convert it back??? Pleeeease help me!!!!!!!

Bear in mind that Apple quotes the number of songs you are able to store on any iPod by using the AAC format at a bitrate setting of 128kbps and for a 4 minute song.
Look in iTunes under edit/preferences/advanced/importing. What does it say in settings and import using? You may have the import settings and bitrate set wrong. You need to compress your music using either mp3 or aac. If you see AIFF, WAV or Apple Lossless then those formats are going to take way more space than mp3 or aac, especially the first 2 which are raw uncompressed formats.
See this.
<a href="<a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60955">How much content will fit on my iPod?

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It's probably because you have the import settings and bitrate set wrong. Look in iTunes under edit/preferences/importing. What does it say in settings and import using? You need to compress your music using either mp3 or aac. If you see AIFF, WAV or Apple Lossless then those formats are going to take way more space than mp3 or aac, especially the first 2 which are raw uncompressed formats. Bear in mind that Apple quotes the number of songs you are able to store on any iPod by using aac at 128kbps for a 4 minute song.
  See this article.
  About import settings and hard disk space.
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Problem: Before I knew anything about bit rates or file sizes, I accidently imported a ton of my music as giant music files like Apple lossless! Now, my iPod has filled up with far fewer songs than Apple said could fit on my iPod! What do I do?!?
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Option 1:
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