How do I get playlists from my phone on to my mac?

Hi
I have an iPhone 4S that I've been using as my iPod. It has all my playlists and much of my music (though not enough memory for all my music). This all came from my old laptop. Earlier this year I bought a MacBook Air (love it!) and although I managed to move the music library across from my old PC laptop, using an external hard drive, the playlists didn't come with it.  When I try to sync my phone now with the mac for my music and select "synch playlists" I get the message "are you sure you want to remove existing music, etc, etc from this iPhone  and sync with the iTunes library".  No!  I want it to sync the other way round so that my playlists go ON to my library.  I also have new music I've bought from iTunes on the Mac which isn't on my phone because there's no room.
I have been inspired to sort this out because my new iPhone 6 arrives today (with lots of memory) and I want to get all the playlists and music on to that.  I'd be very grateful indeed for some advice - I'm sure i'm missing something obvious.
best wishes
CC

Connect the device to the computer.
In iTunes, select the content desired to sync.
Sync.
This is all described in the User's Guide, reading it may be a good place to start.

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