Transferring music from 3GS to iPhone 5 without a PC

I have an iPhone 3gs with lots of downloaded and purchased music on it and want to transfer all this to an iPhone 5. The trouble is I don't have a PC at the moment so I cannot use the USB cable to sync etc in itunes. Is there another way to get all this music transferred?
I have scoured the internet but so far have not been successful.

Read http://www.apple.com/itunes/inside-itunes/2012/01/get-instant-access-to-your-itu nes-purchases-wherever-you-are-with-itunes-in-the-cloud.html
In particular read the section that starts with "You can also automatically send your purchases to multiple devices."
and http://blog.beezix.com/2013/04/30/managing-app-store-and-itunes-purchases-on-mul tiple-devices/
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