Macbook-iPhone music syncing issue

I recently got a MacBook Pro. My iPhone, which was synced on my old computer, will not work with my Pro because it says that it is synced with another library. I am signed onto my only iTunes account on both my new computer and my iPhone. How do I fix this?

You can only sync your itunes media content ( music, videos..) to one computer at a time. When you connect your phone to another computer or reinstall your system or itunes or change your itunes library, all media content on your iphone will be erased and replaced with the content of the new itunes library.
Contacts, pictures taken with your phone and purchased data from itunes like apps can be transferd to the new computer or are part of the backup of your phone in itunes.
So, disable autosync in itunes. Connect your phone and backup manually by right clicking on the phone in the device list. Transfer purchases the same way: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
Set up at least one contact and event on your computer to be able to merge your data when you restore from the backup after the first sync.
Backup and restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
What a backup contains: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Backing up itunes media: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1382

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