Can you transfer iTunes from an orphaned iPhone (laptop it used to synch to was stolen)...

My son has an orphaned iPhone with music we'd like to synch to our main iMac (his laptop which had his library was stolen).  Is there some way to transfer the songs from his iPhone?  They were purchased using my appleID, so in theory they are mine.  However, only option given when we try to synch his iPhone to our main family iMac is to erase and resynch he iPhone...but we don't want to do that since there are songs on there not in our iMac libary.  Any help much appreciated!

If the iPhone's Apple ID matches the Apple ID in iTunes on your computer, you could do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases when the iPhone is plugged in to iTunes.
If you don't get that far, and your only choice is to erase and resync the Mac, then there is some other issue (e.g., the Apple ID does not match between the iPhone and iTunes).

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