HT2729 How do I sync my phone without losing all of my current tracks?

I can't sync my iphone to my macbook air library without sacrificing all of my tracks from my last computer. How do I just add to my current list?

Iphone will sync or manually manage with one and only one computer at a time.  Syncing or manually managing to another wilol erase the current content.
Copy everything from the old computer, or your backup copy of the old computer to your new one.

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