If you’ve never used your iPad for playing music or if you need a refresher on how to do it, use this step-by-step tutorial to learn how.
Before Connecting Your iPad
To ensure that the process of transferring iTunes songs to your iPad goes as smoothly as possible, make sure you have the latest version of iTunes. Updating iTunes is normally an automatic process when your system starts up or whenever you launch iTunes, but you can also check for updates manually. In Windows, check for an iTunes update through the Help menu. Choose Check for Updates.
Plug Your iPad Into Your Computer
When the iPad syncs with iTunes, the process is only one-way. This type of file synchronization means that iTunes updates your iPad to mirror what’s in your iTunes library. Here’s how to hook up your iPad to your computer and view it in iTunes.
Sync Songs to iPad Automatically
This is the default and easiest method for transferring songs to your iPad.
Transfer Music to iPad Manually
To control which songs sync to your iPad from iTunes, change the default mode to manual. This stops iTunes from automatically syncing music as soon as your iPad is plugged in.
Select Entire music library to automate the transfer of all your music.Select Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres to pick certain parts of your iTunes library to sync to your iPad. You’ll choose which items to sync.
You can also select Include videos or Include voice memos to sync those things, too.
Tips
You can organize your music into iTunes playlists to make copying groups of songs easier. Learn how to save storage space on your iPad if you don’t have enough room to copy songs. Streaming is one way to listen to music on your iPad without using iTunes and without worrying too much about disk space. There are lots of music streaming apps that work with the iPad. iTunes isn’t the only way to transfer songs to the iPad. Third-party sync tools like Syncios work, too. You can create playlists on your iPad with any of the songs on your iPad.
