My iPod Mini is already full???

I bought an iPod Mini yesterday. I got the songs from my CD. Right now, I have less than 1 Gigabyte, and I only have 91 songs!
I heard that I need to convert the WAV files to MP3... However, I don't want to spend any more money on that stuff. Is there an alternative??? Those free MP3 websites are really NOT free...

WAVE format can be very big file and you will need to convert to MP3 or AAC(m4a) format for more space. But sometimes those compressed formats are less quality than WAVE format(of course low bitrate WAVE is low quality too). If you care about sound quality a lot, I think WAVE format or Apple Lossless format is good for you, however, they will be very big files and take more times to transfer to your iPod.
MP3 or AAC converter is already in the iTunes. How to convert is already discribed by Jan Jaap Kikkert so I don't say anything about this.
If you just need some MP3 converter, there is many free and good MP3 converter. For example, Lame is very good and free MP3 converter. Also iTunes and Windows Media Player 10 have a MP3 converter function.

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