How to manually manage my music on my iPhone 5 without it syncing?

I have different desktops and am trying to put music from various desktops on to my iPhone 5. But whenever I select 'Manually manage music and videos' it always asks me to erase and sync; but the whole point of 'manually' doing it, is so I don't have to sync at all.

Does anyone know a way around this?

Basically I'm just trying to drag and drop music/ videos from various desktops to the same iPhone, I used to do it on my iPod's etc and there was never an issue.

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There's an option in itunes that asks if you want it to sync automatically when you plug in your ipod. Just uncheck this box and it will stop any automatic synching when you plug it in.

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