Ipod classic question (possibly first generation)

My mom has an ipod classic, I believe it is a first generation, and the computer it was "synced" to went down and so I was going to connect her ipod to my laptop and add music to her ipod for her. But I don't want to delete any of the songs from her ipod that are already on there, is there a way to add more music to her ipod without deleting all the music that is already synced on to it?

When I sync I get the message that some of my content wasn't synced to the iPod because of an unrecognized format. Its odd because it is downloaded from iTunes and is in m4v...I have not checked my settings. I will do that.

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