How do you add music to an iPod?
You might be surprised to learn that the Apple iPod actually wasn’t the first portable device capable of playing songs downloaded as digital files from the Internet. But everyone has pretty much forgotten the Eiger Labs MPMan, which in 1998 was the first digital music player on the market [source: Van Buskirk]. That’s because the early portable devices, which early adopters used to play MP3 files that they’d copied from CDs or downloaded from file-sharing services like Napster tended to be clunky gadgets that could only store a few megabytes of music. More importantly, they took a certain amount of techno-nerditude and Web savvy to utilize. They were more novelties than must-haves [source:
