Transferring music from existing library (Play List) to my iPhone 4

I would like to transfer music from my iPod shuffle and Nano library to my iPhone. Can someone assist me with this issue?

Under the Music tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes, you select Sync Music.
Your options are all songs and playlists, or selected playlists. If you choose all songs and playlists, select Sync to transfer all songs and available playlists in iTunes to your iPhone.
If you don't want all music that is available in your iTunes library transferred to your iPhone, choose selected playlists.
Create a playlist with iTunes on your Mac.
At the bottom of the iTunes source list, select the + button to create a playlist. Or at the iTunes menu bar, go to File and select New Playlist. Or you can select various songs in your iTunes library and after all songs are selected that you want to create an iTunes playlist for, at the iTunes menu bar go to File and select New Playlist from Selection.
Enter a name for the playlist. If you don't use the New Playlist from Selection option, select the songs in your iTunes library that you want available in the playlist and drag the songs to the playlist.
After you have the music in the playlist that you want transferred to your iPhone, select the playlist in the window below selected playlists under the Music tab for your iPhone sync preferences followed by a sync.
You can create a number of playlists in iTunes for selected music.

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Find out how to do that here.
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Connect the iPod whilst holding down the shift/ctrl keys to prevent any auto sync, and if you see the dialogue window asking if you want to sync to this itunes library, click 'no'.
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Music from iPod to computer (using option 2). This a manual method using "hidden folders" and although it works, it is a little more involved than other methods.
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Another free program is Pod Player.
SharePod is also freeware.
If you want to recover just the structure of playlists from the iPod (and not the actual song files themselves), there's iRepo for Windows. which I understand has this feature along with all the standard features for these programs.
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