Syncing and single album rather than my entire itunes library.

I have an album I would like to move to my iphone. It is on a different computer than I normally use. I can link my iphone up but if I choose to sync with it, it will remove everything I have added from my other computer. I just want to add a single album, I don't want to sync with this second machine.
Is there a way to simply create a playlist on the second computer and then only sync that playlist without it removing everything else I already have on the phone?
thanks,
ryan

Man that is just crazy. How many of us have a PC for a work computer and a Mac at home. Obviously most people have music on both. Now, you are saying I can only pull music from one or the other. More so, I have two Macs and three PCs and due to HD space, etc... I don't want to keep all of my music on one machine. The fact that I can only bring music from one PC to another at any given time means I am going to have to setup a home network and a shared music directory so that all of my itunes can have the same files. I'll prbably need to go out and buy a huge HD to hold all of the music in a unified location. This is pretty lame since I can take my ipod anywhere and hook it to any machine and drag the files I want right onto it. That is a much preferable method. It is almost hard to believe they would have made this so restrictive. This phone is so cool and yet has so many of these potholes.

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