How To Put Mac Music Library On Ipad

10.04.2020
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There are a few ways to transfer your iTunes library from one computer to another: When you get a new Mac, use Setup Assistant (or Migration Assistant, if you’re switching from Windows) to move files—including your iTunes files—from your old computer to the new one. See the Apple Support article Back up and restore your iTunes Library.

  • You can keep a lot of music and videos on your Mac because it likely has a larger storage capacity than your iPhone or iPad. Fortunately, you can still easily share your entire iTunes library with all your Apple devices without physically transferring a single media file.
  • Dec 18, 2018  Designed as a professional iPad music manager, it certainly provides you with more features to manage iPad music library, like delete music from iPad, create a playlist on iPad, edit iPad music info at batch (artists, albums, release date, etc.). And the 'Sync' button helps you synchronize your iPad and Mac on music library.
  • iPhone to Mac
  • iPhone to PC
  • iPhone to iPhone/iPad

A lot of iPad users enjoy listening to the songs and it does add great pleasure to the daily life. But when it comes to moving your music to iPad, you can choose iTunes to sync music and other media files among multiple iOS devices, however, this method has self-evident shortcomings, like, you'll have to sync the whole music library with iTunes when transferring music to iPad. Besides, this process is a little bit time-consuming and iTunes only supports limited music formats. Therefore, this guide will introduce top 3 ways to fix how to transfer music to iPad Pro/Air 2/Air/4/3/2, iPad mini 4/3/2 without iTunes.

Part 1. No.1 Choice to Import Music to iPad without iTunes

Good news is that you can use third party software for direct transferring between iPad/iPhone/iPod touch and your computer. Here we strongly recommend using Tenorshare iCareFone, which offers you a free way to share iOS files (Contacts, Notes, Photos, Videos, Music, Apps, etc.) efficiently. Tenorshare iCareFone is the No.1 software to free transfer 10 songs to iPad without iTunes.

  • Launch the installed program on your laptop and connect iPad or iPhone to your laptop with USB cable. When your iDevice is detected, click on 'File Manager'.
  • Then select 'Music' and click on 'Add' icon below it.
  • Next, select a song or songs from your computer and click 'Open'.
  • Then the desired music is transferred to your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch successfully.

Follow the similar steps to upload other types of files; Tenorshare iCareFone will impress you greatly with its incredible speed and convenience.

Part 2. Using iCloud to Copy Music to iPad from PC Wirelessly

In fact, iCloud is a default backup tool for iOS device. Nevertheless, it can also be used to upload music to iPad from PC.

  • On PC browser, go to 'icloud.com' and log in iCloud with your Apple ID.
  • Select 'iCloud Drive' icon and then tap 'Upload' to copy songs from computer to iPad. Drag & Drop function is also available.
  • Check uploaded songs on 'iCloud Drive' of your iPad.
Note: Network is necessary; it cannot transfer iPad music to PC; songs will not be synced to the music player on iPad. Instead, you can only listen to them on iCloud Drive.

Now we've got 2 methods to fix how to transfer music to iPad. But if you want to save precious time and get excellent using experience, we'd like to recommend using Tenorshare iCareFone. Hope you enjoy this excellent tool!

FonePaw - Solution - Transfer - Transfer Files from Mac to iPad

Nowadays, the iPad is getting thinner with a bigger screen and is becoming a Mac substitute for many users. When using iPad for work or for fun, you must need to transfer files from Mac to iPad at some point.

This guide will show you all possible ways to move files between Mac and iPad. All files, including music, photos, contacts, movies, TV shows, PDF, Word/Excel documents, etc. can be transferred. Just select a method that works best for you.

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Transfer Files from Mac to iPad Using iTunes

Using iTunes is a classic way to transfer files between Mac and iPad, although iTunes is killed in the latest macOS Catalina 10.15. (Check how to sync iPhone/iPad to Mac on macOS Catalina)

If you haven't updated your Mac to the newest macOS 10.15, you can still use iTunes on your Mac to transfer files to iPad.

Sync media files from Mac to iPad

To transfer photo, music, video files from Mac to iPad, you have to sync your iPad with the iTunes library on your Mac, which may delete some existing files on your iPad.

Step 1: Run iTunes on Mac and plug your iPad into Mac. (What to do when iTunes won't recognize your iPad?)

Step 2: Select your iPad in iTunes. Click Music, Photos, Movies or TV Shows and click Sync button on the bottom.

Share documents from Mac to iPad

File Sharing on iTunes enables apps like Pages, Keynote to share files between Mac and iPad. To transfer documents from Mac to iPad:

  • Click File Sharing on iTunes;

  • All your iPad apps that support File Sharing will show up;

  • Select an app and click Add to add files from Mac to iPad.


How to Transfer Files from Mac to iPad without iTunes

Syncing iPad to iTunes library on Mac could wipe some existing files on Mac. That's why many people would like to import files to iPad from Mac without iTunes.

FonePaw iOS Transfer can replace iTunes for iPad files transfer. As a matter of fact, transferring files with the FonePaw tool is much more convenient than iTunes. It won't overwrite the existing files on your iPad and it supports files transfer from iPad back to Mac, too. Moreover, files transfer between iPhone and iPad, iPad and iPod Touch is also possible with FonePaw iOS Transfer.

iPad Pro, iPad Air 3/2, iPad mini 4/3, iPad 2 and any other iPad models are all supported.


Step 1: Connect iPad to Mac

After launching FonePaw iOS Transfer on your MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac Pro, get you iPad connected to Mac using a USB cable. After detected, your iPad will be shown up in the home window of the program.


Step 2: Move Files from Mac to iPad

Select a category in the left column. For example, select Videos, which will load all video files on your iPad. Click 'Add'. In the pop-up file browser window, navigate to the folder on your Mac where you save video files you want to transfer. Then, click 'Open' to copy movies to your iPad.

Further reading:

How To Put Mac Music Library On Ipad 2

How to Put Movies on iPad from Mac


How to Transfer Files from Mac to iPad Wirelessly

If you don't have a USB cable on hand right now, you can also transfer files from Mac to iPad wirelessly without USB cables. That's to use AirDrop to share the files between Mac and iPad.

Although AirDrop comes to handy when transferring one or several files at a time, it is not reliable if you need to move a large number of files between iPad and Mac. You're recommended to use a USB cable if there are numerous files on your Mac to transfer to iPad.

Step 1: Make sure that AirDrop is enabled on both your iPad and Mac.

Step 2: On your MacBook or iMac, open the file, such as a photo, you want to send to iPad. Tap the Share button.

Step 3: When AirDrop displays the name of your iPad, tap the device to receive the files from Mac.

The Mac file will then be transferred to iPad wirelessly.

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