On my iPhone, I have songs from a CD that I bought and no longer haev. I now have a new computer and it is telling me that to move songs that I only have on my computer, I must erase all of the music from my iPhone. Help!

On my iPhone, I have songs from a CD that I bought and no longer have. I now have a new computer and it is telling me that to move songs that I only have on my computer, I must erase all of the music from my iPhone (It also says that my phone is already synced with another computer so it has to download everything). I would like to keep all of the music on my Phone and still be able to have these songs from my computer on my iPhone. Help!

The iPhone is not a storage device. iPhone is designed to sync with 1 computer and
iPhone sync only one way computer -> iPhone except content bought from iTunes.
Read this user tip:
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive

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