iPad Help Needed

My best friend just gave me an iPad for my birthday and I've been trying to add some music to it from my huge CD collection. The music from the CDs downloads to my laptop fine but when I synch my iPad the music doesn't transfer. I can get music that I've bought on iTunes onto my iPad but not the music from my CDs. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone, please, tell me how to fix this? I've been looking on the Apple help sight but I haven't been able to find anything. Thank you for any help or advice y'all can give me. 

• Have you imported the files from the CD into iTunes?

  The Voice of the Night

• Convert them to AAC files.

• Yes R1, the music has been imported to iTunes

• Erm, where did your friend get this iPad?

• On your laptop, open iTunes, klick on "iPad", then "Music" and make sure you got "entire music library" checked under "sync music".

• ^ Of course, your iPad has to be connected to your laptop while doing that.

  R5

• Store them in a cloud service like sugarsync and play them over your wifi. There's not enough space on an iPad to start sticking loads of CDs on it.

• If you turn Home Sharing on on your laptop you can access the music (at home) with your ipad on the same network. Or get a NAS and you can access it anywhere. Do not use cloud services unless you like all your shit disappearing and anyone including the feds having access to all your files.

• iPads can hold tons of music. It depends on the iPad.

• [quote]I've been looking on the Apple help sight... Oh dear!

  Illiterates R Us

• Mostly what R5 says, but it sounds like you don't want to sync your entire iTunes library, just certain CDs. So here's what you do: Make a new playlist (I suggest calling it "iPad") and drag everything you want to sync to your iPad into it. Then, click the "iPad" button in the upper right hand corner of iTunes, then "Music", then check "Sync music", select "Sync only selected playlists..." and select your new "iPad" playlist from the list. Then click "Sync" and you're done. You can do it wirelessly over WiFI but it's a lot faster if you plug the iPad into the computer.

• Does anyone have word processing and spreadsheet apps that they use on the iPad? I think my laptop may be kicking the bucket soon, and I'm wondering if I can just perform those functions on my iPad instead of buying a new PC.

  The%20ghost%20of%20Steve%20Jobs

• I like to manually manage music. You can just drag and drop what you want that way.