HT1386 Adding music to iPhone 5

I only have some music on my computer that I want to drag onto my iPhone, but it's prompting me to sync in order to do that. If I sync, it says that all the current music on my iPhone will be deleted, is there another way around this?

The iPhone will sync with only ONE iTunes library at a time.  If you synch with a new library it will necessarily wipe all media off the phone first, before allowing you to put media from the current library on the phone.  There's no way around this.
You can drag and drop all the music you want from your current computer's iTunes, but all the songs already on there, which are from a different computer, will be erased.

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