Can't get music to play on iPad air

Yesterday I got an iPad air as an early Christmas present. Hooray! However, I put close to 3000 songs on it yesterday, and only around 200 of them will play. I'm assuming this is because 99% of my music was NOT purchased through iTunes. Is this the case? Also, are there apps I can download to use in lue of iTunes in case I can't solve this a different way?

You should post in the ipad forum.  This is the iphone forum.
"I'm assuming this is because 99% of my music was NOT purchased through iTunes. Is this the case?"
No.

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