Album not appearing in iTunes!

Question

I am a new user of an IPad and using it with iTunes.  I have a good selection of purcahsed via iTunes music and that's all downloaded fine.  I also have been ripping some of my purchased CDs using iTunes and in the main this works great.  I have some audio tape cassettes of music.  I have input this via Audacity into mp3 tracks. But I converted these to MP4 and put them in a folder of the Artists name and under that a folder of the album name.  I then put the artist folder into the My Music/iTunes folder.  But it doesn't appear in the list of artists on the iTunes for my IPad.  So normally I tick this, say apply and then sync and the music is transferred to the IPad.  Is there some way to tell iTunes to sync with the PC in the folder iTunes in My Music that appears to be where it puts all the music for iTunes/IPad etc... 

Answer 1

Um, I'm trying to understand you clearly, sorry if I misunderstood you.
Right...
Music on CDs is in digital form and have data on them. They tend to have some small data on them that tells any machines, be it portable CD players, Hi-Fi, car CD players, computers, etc., what is the album called, who is the artist, how long is the track, and so on.  That's how those LCD displays list track numbers or how long it is or whatever.
When you rip your CDs in your computer, via iTunes or any other software, it is my understanding that those tend to go online and connect to some big database that contents all the details about CDs sold in shops, your software reads some kind of catalogue number off the CD and compare it to the database, and download information about the CD.
This big database is called Graceland or something. You could check it out on Wikipedia for some more details.
However when it comes to audio tapes, the music on them are in analogue form, when you imput those music into your computer via Audacity or whatever you got, and converte them into MP3 or MP4 form, whatever you do, there is no way for those software to know any details about the music on the tapes. There is no data files for the computer to send via Internet to Graceland or similar to get a full list of artist, album title, track titles, running time, album art, etc.
It is somewhat similar to say...
A digital camera will tag the photo with a small file that contents date, time, etc., so your computer will know when it was taken. That's your CD and ripping.
But a film camera only captures the picture only. You are the one who knows when it was taken, so you are the one who have to write down the date and time on the back of the photo yourself. That is you and your audio tape.
So go to any of the tracks you have on iTunes, right click to bring up a sub-menu, click on 'Get Info' to bring up a box, then you would have to type in manually the name of artist in the boxes. You have to tell iTunes who this track belongs to, otherwise iTunes would assume it is unknown artist.
Hope this helps?