Can I safely transfer all my music on my iPhone to my new Macbook pro or do I need to use a Time Machine to transfer my old iTunes to my new laptop? Am paranoid about losing music

Title says it all. I have had a bad experience with losing my music before and I'm very paranoid about transfers, so I want to make sure I go about it right. I would like to do it myself if possibly and quickly.

technologically_illiterate wrote:
Title says it all. I have had a bad experience with losing my music before and I'm very paranoid about transfers, so I want to make sure I go about it right. I would like to do it myself if possibly and quickly.
The iphone is not a backup device.
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backu copy of your computer. Copy everything from your old computer or your backup copy of your old computer to your new one.

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