WMA files taking up too much spa

I bought a zen nano plus, and am transferring files to it. They are .WAV files, so I should be able to put 500 songs. However, as I am watching the available space meter, I see that each song is averaging 4 MB, which means that only 250 will fit. What's wrong?

surfwmn wrote:
Thanks for calling me stupid.... not everyone is so techno savy as you. I read the information it all just makes no sense to me!
You're not entirely at fault here. Using "x number of songs" as a unit of capacity for an mp3 player is a poor choice, but everybody does it.
There are two key variables that make that number meaningless: bitrate (amount of compression) and song length (not everyone only listens to 4 minute songs).
Since 64kbps is too poor of a quality for most people, and since every download service I've seen does at least 28 kbps, you can safely expect to get about half the number of songs advertised ,at best.

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