HT1296 iTunes cancels previous content transfer

Recently, I decided to remove all my musics from my iPod, and then re-transfer them, so far so good.
But then, when I selected, let's say, Black Sabbath entire discography to my iPod, they were transfering XX files transfered of XX bla bla bla, then I go and select some other random musics to be transfered, and by some strange reason, all Black Sabbath musics stop being transfered, and what got transfered stays, but the rest does not, and the random musics starts being transfered. I do not know why does that happen, but before, I could select many songs, transfering them, and just keep adding more songs to be transfered to the line, why I can't anymore?

You won't be able to. The iPhone can only be synced to a single library. Once you try to sync to something else, it will erase the old. If all of your music is in the new library, it won't really matter, since you would be able to sync it all back, however, it will still erase it first.

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