Zen Micro Song Capacity?????

I have a white 5gb zen micro purchased december 2004.
Currently I have 909 songs that are taking up 3.88gb. I have 28mb designated for my removable disk. So that only leaves me 77mb of free space. This is not right.
All my songs are in mp3 format and i am nowhere close to the advertised 2500 song capacity.
Has anyone else had this problem or know of a way to fix it. Should I change all my files to WMA's (I thought they were bigger file sizes though)
Not sure what to do.
Mohall

Whoa whoa whoa. We're all just trying to help here.
Nothing out of the ordinary is going on. You have an approriate amount of disk space left for the number of tracks you have on your player. It's all relati've because the length of the tracks also affects the number of tracks you can fit on the player. If you listen to house music, techno, or concertos your average number of tracks on the player will go down because the songs, on average, will be longer.
If you listen to nothing but punk then every song is 2 minutes long and you'll easily fit many more than the quoted number of tracks on the player.
You aren't missing any space on the dri've from what I can tell by your posts. The things quoted here are standardized but no music collection is standardized. There is a huge array of lengths, bitrates, and file types in most people's collections so a perfectly uniform standard that applies to everyone is hard to achieve.

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