Nano 2gb only holds 206 songs not 500 songs

just opened new Nano 2 Gb and will not hold more than 206 songs not the 500 as advertised

Chances are the songs that you have downloaded to your Ipod are larger than the standard that Apple uses which is 128kbps. I personally think 128kbps sounds like crap, so all my songs are at least 192kbps. In Itunes, go to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Importing. Change "Setting:" to "High Quality 128kbps." Then the next time you rip an album to your Ipod it will be more compressed.

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Ipod nano 2GB only allowing 44 songs then full

I am trying to import songs from my CD collection and I only have 44 songs on my nano and it says the memory is full. Can someone please help me? There is nothing else on the ipod except songs, no contacts, no photos, nothing else. Please help!!!
hp Windows XP

As it happans I am a wizz on the keboard and can help.
when apple say the iPod nano 2GB can fit what 500 songs?, they estimate this at ACC encoding 128 kbps, at 4 MB per song.
If you have imported your music from CD then it is probally in the uncommpressed format of AIFF, which takes up 20 time more space!!!
iTunes can convert the songs for you, you go to edit>preferences>advanced> here you can choose where you want your music to go after conversion now from here go to importing and , I would suggest using
ACC format at 128 kbps (High Quality)
now back in your library go to edit>select all ( select 1 of the songs first or this will not work) and then click advanced>convert selection to ACC now just let it chew through all of that (it might be an overnight job depending on the number of songs you have being converted).
Now you should delete your ebtire library of the big AIFF files and under file add new folder, and add the folder that you converted your music too (by default this will be C:/documents and setting/my documents/my music
then all of your new compressed songs will come on your library at the same quality as they were but 1/20th the size!!.
if you need any extra help email me at [email protected]

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Good Day All,
I have just gotten a 4 gb IPOD Nano, and am trying to load my songs and it shows 870 songs on 3.79 Gb but not enough room to store all my songs? Any ideas?
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It is about right and normal
In iPod's About menu, the hard disk size is reported as slightly less than the technical specifications for the iPod. The same is true if you connect iPod to your computer in disk mode look at the info or properties window for the disk.
Why the difference? Most hard disk manufacturers measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 million bytes (1000 * 1000). A 4 GB disk, therefore, is one that holds 4 billion bytes. Computers, including Windows computers, Macintosh computers and iPod, measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 048 576 bytes (1024 * 1024). The difference in these two calculations is what causes the drive to appear as 3.7 GB on a computer, but actually be a 4 billion byte disk.

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Hey, i was just trying to put some music on my nano, i had 117 songs on it, i tryed to put 1 on and it said it was full, i looked at the bottom of the screen on itunes and it said i had filled it up!, so i deleted all my songs and it still said that 1.6gb was on it, what the **** is happening?

Lol. A similar thing happened to me when I first got mine. First I had 14 songs and it said I had 1.3 GB left. I deleted all my songs and it still said I had 1.3 GB left, lol. Now heres the trick I used to restore all my space, even though you'll have to re-upload all your songs. Just go to the ipod updater in start menu and click on the ipod update option. Then follow the process and click on "restore to factory condition". If it says ipod cannot lock, first exit all ipod applications, restart the ipod by holding the menu and middle button. Then put on hold if you like, and keep trying to restore till it works. That should fix the problem.

Way to only backup new songs, not all songs that we backed up before?

I know this isn't a forum for my specific external harddrive, but I'm hoping one of you brilliant people might be able to help me. Every time I add a new song to my iPod, I back up my music files (as found by viewing/saving the "hidden" music files in the iPod_Control folder when viewing the iPod as a disk drive). I like backing my songs up this way because the hidden files contain everything that I've saved to the song files (album art, artist, etc.), so if I ever need to re-add these songs to iTunes, I won't need to add these things again. However, copying ALL of these files to my external harddrive takes FOREVER. Unfortunately, these files aren't labeled with the name of the song or artist, they're simply letters and numbers, such as F05, so I have no idea which file is which song. Does anybody have any tips for distinguishing when these files were created/what's in them or how I can only back up NEW data-things I haven't backed up previously? I'd really appreciate ANY tips!
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Rarely would one want/need to 'backup' the actual iPod. It is easier to just backup your iTunes system from the PC.
The generally accepted method of iPod/iTunes use is to:
- Have the complete Library contained within iTunes on the PC
- Have a complete or partial Library on the iPod
- Have a complete backup of the iTunes Library stored externally
If anything happens to the iPod's music (which is very possible), just re-sync to your iTunes. If anything happens to your iTunes music, just recover from your backup files.
Transferring data to/from the iPod itself outside of iTunes is slow and usually confusing.
If you want to completely backup you music Library, see this post as a start:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=1350956
- Backup all music files
- Backup the Library metadata database file
- Backup the .pref files of iTunes (not as critical)
- Make an XML copy of your Ratings, Play Counts and Last Played attributes for all files (See: http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=1339320 ) This is a redundant partial copy of the ITL metadata file information.
Your method will work, but it sure is a back-end around a rather simple process.
BTW:
Song attributes stored directly in each music file are as follows: Artist, Album, Song Title, Year, Comments, Compilation tag, Lyrics, Genre , Grouping, Composer, BPM, Album Artwork, Bit Rate & Kind (Both not tags - inherent to the file itself).
Song attributes stored in the iTunes Library database file only are: Playlists, Ratings, Play Count, Last Played, Date Added, Date Modified, Equalizer, Volume Adjustment.

My new Ipod Nano has only 14.88GB and not 16GB as promised. Why?

I just bought an Ipod Nano 16GB. I registered it at I-tunes and to my big surprise I realized it only has a capacity of 14.88GB and not 16GB. It is such a difference that it really counts, so I am a bit frustrated.
I have contacted Apple by E-mail, but they keep referring me to another department by saying it is not under their jurisdiction. It is as if they want to silence the matter.
Can anybody explain to me if anything is wrong with my Nano16GB and if so what I shall do next?
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I'm Brasilian and don't speak too much english , so sorry by the writing mistakes
I just bought my new Ipod
When I transfer the musics for my Ipod nano , in the Itunes is everything ok , but when I look for them in my Ipod the re somes that are missing!!
And Another thing I discovered in the Ipod in Setting>About the number of musics is always 256 , but I put 300 musics( and in the Itunes this missing musics appear)
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My iPod Nano will only hold 75 songs. What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it? It also skips songs that I've downloaded from iTunes.

Kind: Protected AAC audio file
Sizes range from 2.8 - 4.4
Bitrate is all 128 kbps
Thanks.
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My iPod touch is only holding about 20 apps and 16 songs and 3 movies and it says that it's space is full. I thought I had at least 6gb of memory. Is there something wrong with my iPod?

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I have solved the problem myself!
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I can't really change the drive letter of my windows drive, but I guess that changing the ipod drive is sufficient too.

2GB ipod nano will only allow 40 songs and not 500.

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