ITunes/iPhone syncing help

I just transferred my iTunes to a new Mac and I on my old computer I used to plug in my iPhone and drag the songs I wanted to my "device" and it would add them. For some reason when I go to drag it to my device on the new Mac it never gives me the capability of dropping it in the music folder. Help??

Your iPhone can only be "synced" with one computer at a time. Regardless of authorization for iTunes content.
You need to transfer ALL content from the old computer to the new. Then, you can choose to sync the iPhone by clicking on it in the sidebar, and across the top going through the Summary, Info, Music, Movies, Photos, Apps etc tabs, and checking the boxes to turn ON syncing to this new computer. It should give you a message each time you do this that says that you will wipe off existing content and then add new content that came from THIS computer instead.
Simply de-authorizing the old computer will not solve your problem- that just tells Apple that you no longer allow the computer to play the content you purchased FROM iTunes. It does not affect syncing other than the transferrence of iTunes store purchases from the device they were bought on to the other device.

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