How do you get your music on your phone without syncing the whole iTunes library on your phone?

How do you get your music on your phone without syncing the whole iTunes library on your phone?

Are you syncing to a different computer?  Iphone will sycn with only one at a time.  Syncing to another will erase the current content.
Otherwise, just select what you want to be on the iphone under the music tab and sync.  What do you care if it erases?  You will be syncing what you want to the iphone.

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