How do I get my music from a flash drive onto my phone from itunes

I had a flash drive with all my music on it, I got the music into iTunes with no problems and when I plug my iPod into my computer iTunes syncs my music with no problem but when I try to get the music onto my iPhone it won't transfer. I have tried to sync the entire library, song by song, and by playlist but I'm unsuccessful. Also there are little exclamation marks "!" next to the songs in iTunes, I'm sure this has something to do with my problem I just don't know how to fix it. Any help would be great. Thank you

It sounds to me like the option to  "copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" was turned off in the iTunes -> Advanced preferences when you added the tracks from the flash drive, so iTunes left them on the flash drive rather than copying them to your computer's hard drive. Get Info on any of the tracks and see where iTunes thinks they should be located. If they're pointing to the flash drive, check that preference.
If that is indeed the problem, you'll need to fix the location. You can do this track by track if there aren't too many, but if there are a number of them, it'll be easiest to remove them from the iTunes library, fix the above-mentioned preference, and add the tracks again. Or you can just keep the flash drive connected to your computer, but that's probably not ideal.
Regards.

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