I'm having trouble transferring songs from Laptop to devices

I'm having trouble transferring songs from my laptop to both my iPad 2 and iPhone 5. I just added a new album to my library, and where before I used to select the songs I wanted to add to my devices, and then drag and drop them, this doesn't appear to work. I watched the tutorial and it says there is an 'Add to' option when you clkick on the device name in the top right hand corner. That doesn't appear on mine at all. Completely confused and nearing the end of my tether!

Make sure your device iOS is updated:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4623
Then try these articles:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386

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The information below may be able to answer your questions about how to delete songs from your iPhone:
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