N95 - Music takes up twice the memory, why???

Found out that my music stored on my memory card takes up twice the real amount, anyone knows why?
(After checking the details of the memory, I found out that 720MB was used, but the only thing that really takes up space is my music which takes up about 300MB. But for some reason it doubles up in space when the phone calculates used/free memory)
Please help!

The memory analysis doesn't include hidden files. In my case, I have around 700MB of maps for Route66 that don't show up.
Not sure if the maps for Nokia Maps are hidden, but that would be my first guess.

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I have , once, removed my mobile phone from data cable without safety remove and there it gave me lot of troubles. My facebook was not able to be connected through the provided application and my music player stopped working as and stopped refreshing saying that "File corrupted"
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hi can anyone help i've not long had my n95 i bought a memory card for it the other day, today i put some music on the memory card then put the card back in the phone, i can find the music its in tools : file mgr then move it to memory card and its all there, but i want it on my playlist on the phone but i can't find how to do it can anyone help plz thanks angel

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