Stop music sync but keep songs on iPhone

Hi,
I may be missing something here but my iPhone is running out of space by my ever growing iTune playlist that syncs to it and was wandering if I could stop it syncing whilst keeping the songs. If I unselect the sync option it will delete all the songs too
The playlist in question also syncs to the iPod so I could create a new playlist just for the iPhone but considering I have numeorus playlists and smart playlists I just didn't want to add yet another one!
Thanks,
Leonardo

So the songs were not in your iTunes library on your computer to begin with?
Sync via iTunes is one way, computer > device.
If you purchase media on the device, you can select Files > Transfer purchases to move that content to your iTunes library.
If this is content that was somehow loaded from another computer or iTunes library, there is really nothing you can do.

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