IPohne constantly having to sync with my iTunes library

I have sync my iPhone with my iTunes library a while back, and was able to manually manager my music (i.e. drag and drop the songs I wanted from my library to my iPhone). NOW, iTunes is saying that I need to sync my iPhone with my iTunes library again, which it says, will erase my iPhone and replace it with music from my library. I only have a 16GB iPhone and over 30GB of music in my library. I don't want to have to go through the hassle of wiping out my phone's music and reloading everything again from the library. Why am I having to RE-sync in the first place?? Anyone else having this issue, or suggestions for a solution?

Anytime you switch between manually managing music or syncing music your phone will first be erased of all iTunes content, regardless of whether this is the same iTunes library or not. That's just the way it works with the iPhone. There is no real advantage to manually managing music with an iPhone, since the iPhone does not support disk mode as the some iPods do. The advantage of manually managing is the ability to add content from multiple computers, something you can't do with an iPhone. Since you have to sync apps anyway, you're better off creating various playlists for your phone in iTunes, then checking the box to sync "Only checked songs/playlists". That way, you can add/subtract as you wish to these various playlists.

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