Only 200 songs will import to my 2GB ipod nano

i have had to reset my ipod after getting what i thought was a virus. The ipod kept on skipping over songs. After reseting that problem has gone away. Now i can only get about 200 songs onto the thing. I should be getting 500?
Any ideas as to why this is happening and how to fix it. I have tried to reseting again and that left me with even less memory space?
thanks

First thing to do is a RESTORE on the iPod which will reformat it and put it back to factory default conditions. See if that frees up space.
Second, what format do you encode your songs in and at what bit rate? The "500" number is only an estimate based on 128kpbs AAC files. If you use other formats and/or higher bit rates you may get less or a LOT less than 500 songs.
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