Iphone synching question

ok so here's my situation. I have a macbook. My father has a pc. He also has an iphone that synchs to his computer. He now wants lots of music that is on my computer. At first I wanted to manually manage the music and just drag them from my computer into his iphone, i have done this before. However it doesn't work in this situation because of our two different operating systems. So my question is what is the easiest way to get my music onto his iphone?

iphone will sync/manually manage with ONE computer at a time. It has nothing to do with the different Operating systems.
You cannot put content from two computers on the iphone at the same time.
You would have to copy the music to the other computer.

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