Music on one mac and apps on windows pc

Hi we have our music on an I Mac, my wife has her phone synced with her PC laptop for apps am
Nd photos, is there a way to connect her I phone 4 to the Mac so I can transfer music to it. Right now she uses an old iPod nano and would like it all in one place. I have the phone sent up to manually sync music.
But I think I tried this before and the message I got on the I Mac was something like it was going to erase everything on the phone and sync it to thei Mac.
So can I place music on the phone from a Mac with an I phone that usually syncs to a PC?
Thank you
joe

Joecos55 wrote:
So can I place music on the phone from a Mac with an I phone that usually syncs to a PC?
Try Here > Managing content manually
From Here > http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/syncing/

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