My iPod Nano gets full with only 14 songs???

Hi all
a couple of days ago I got my new 1GB iPod Nano.
Now, the 1GB Nano is supposed to hold up to 240 songs.
Right?
But what happens with mine is that it gets very quickly filled up and I can’t update it through iTunes!
I tried many things, I even restored it but the problem hasn’t be solved.
Right now, if I go to "settings" "about" it says:
songs 14
photos 0
capacity 892MB
available 188 KB
version 1.1.1
how is this possible?
only 14 songs imported and just 188KB of free space left???
Sorry if this question is naive but I am a newbie to iPods so your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
hioniam

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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