Why does my music take up so much memory?

I have 275 songs. 1.8 gigs. Why do the songs take up almost 2 gigs? What ever happen to "1 gigabyte holds 1000 songs?" I have an iphone 4 synced with an iTunes account.

Sound quality has increased, causing music to take up more space.

"I have 275 songs. 1.8 gigs"

Song number is irrelevant - what matters is sound quality and length - neither of which were included in your question.

"What ever happen to "1 gigabyte holds 1000 songs?""

Where did you ever hear that? Even at a moderate bit-rate, you get about 1 minute of sound/mb, and that's conservative. At that rate, it's only 250 songs/GB at an average of 4 minutes/song.

Using the 4 minute song as an average, your 275 songs comes out to 1100 minutes, or 18.3 hours. Just to compare, I sorted my iPod music based on bit-rate and high-lighted 18 hours worth of the highest bit-rate and that came to a little over 1.6GB, so you're not that far off.

It depends on your music files size and format.

For example if your files is in mp3, then the size will be smaller but if its in WAV, then the size will be bigger.

Uncompressed audio format is the biggest.

For a detail info on how big is your single song, right click on the song and click Properties. You can find the info there.

To save up your storage space, try to convert all your music files to mp3 format. There are many free mp3 converter out there. Just google it up and you can find many.

Remember do not compress your audio files too small as the size shrink, so do the audio quality.