How to load music from CD onto iPad

OK, so I have a new iPad, and I want to load music from a CD onto it. Is there a way to do this that does not involve an external CD player?

The music is fairly rare, and the CD was compiled from searches on YouTube for choral performances. I want to use these files to rehearse some of the tougher pieces being sung by a Renaissance choir I belong to, and the iPad would be so much easier to use, and it has better sound.

I have already loaded it into iTunes on my laptop, but how do I get it from there to the iPad?

Put the CD into your computer.

Use the iTunes app to import the CD.

Plug your ipad into your computer's USB port.

Find your ipad in the itunes app.

Tell it which music to bring over when syncing.

Press sync.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201593

Thanks. But then how do I play it back on the iPad? I don't see the iTunes app anywhere on the iPad. Or is it not going to show up until I synch

Okay, it's syncing now, but I still don't know where to look for the songs on the iPad.

Found it. Well, some of it. What a PITA it is to find stuff I've synced to the iPad. Is there an easier way to arrange things? It doesn't look at all like iTunes on the laptop. Ugh.

That's the new Apple Music app. If you subscribe to the Apple Music service, parts of iTunes on your computer will look more like the music app on your phone, but the app on your phone will NOT look more like iTunes on the computer.

Unfortunately, Apple Music has not yet exactly been all it's cracked up to be.

I think the Spotify app will play your itunes music even if you don't have a Spotify subscription. I'm not sure, though. I do have a paid subscription. I can't try it for you, but you could try it.

I hate Spotify, Tom. I tried it a couple of years ago to listen to something a friend told me about, and it made a giant mess in my laptop and was hell to uninstall. Never again.

And I am vastly annoyed about the crappiness of how music is presented on the iPad. WTF? Tons of people listen to music on iPhones and iPads, so why make the arrangement so unintuitive?

Perhaps you can let us know what's so egregious. I just synced the album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned by The Prodigy to my iPad. I opened the Music app, click My Music, sorted by artists at the top, and there is the album I want.

To be honest I don't even use the Music app as I love Spotify and subscribed as soon as it came out over here.

Another satisfied Spotify subscriber, and that's what I would have suggested. I run it on an old iPad attached to speakers as my "stereo." Retired phones can be repurposed that way, too.

I don't recall exactly what happened with Spotify, but I remember the laptop became extremely glitchy, and the Spotify app kept launching itself, unsuccessfully. So it didn't work well for playing music, and it got in the way of other things even when I wasn't trying to use it.

That sounds anamolous and unlikely to recur.

Perhaps. But my laptop is somewhat elderly and has already had a trip to the Apple Hospital this year. I'm unwilling to risk anything interesting at this point.

I'm proposing you install Spotify on your ipad, not your laptop. With Spotify on your ipad, you can listen to the tracks you sync'd (sunc?) to your ipad.

I get it. But I still don't trust it. Yes, that's embarrassing, but when something goes wrong on one of my pieces of technology, I really don't know what to do, and it makes me miserable and very anxious. And a little paranoid.

I understand, Peggy.