iPod only 600 songs on a 20 gig?

[Wayfaerer00]

hey, i sent out a search to find something related to this, and dunno if it's been encountered before.. sorry if it's a repeat of a previous post but i couldn't find it. anyways,

i have a new 30 GB ipod and love it, but a friend of mine has a slightly older model of a 20 GB ipod and also has a mac computer, but for some reason it will only fit 600 songs on it even though it's not using up all the gigabytes. has anyone heard of this before or know what i'm talking about at all, and/or know how to fix it? i'm gonna screw around with it some, but i thought i'd ask before doing too much with it, thanks

-wayfaerer

 

[zephead]

Either:

A. He has a lot of data files on it (i.e. back-up of some important stuff)
B. His songs are uncompressed WAV/Lossless
C. His iPod's hard drive is borked

 

[Uselessdreamer1]

im sure his songs are hugh files. Get a compresser and go at em. I just had 6gigs worth and made them 128 instead of 320 and now im at 4 gigs.