Missing Playlist & Missing Music

Hi there.
I have ipad2 that on the latest ios 8.x, and itunes on the latest version (12.x) as well.
Last night I've tried to transfer some music from my mac to the ipad, and it didn't work. I've dragged and dropped few playlist to my ipad, as well as several albums. In the itunes it showed all 3 playlists listed under the ipad, but on the ipad itself they were nowhere to be found. The same goes for music. None of it got transferred whatsoever.
In the itunes it showed something "waiting ....," but it wasn't doing anything for an hour and I unplugged it, and plugged it back. Nothing helped. While ipad is lugged and when i browse it in itunes those 3 set lists are there, not visible on the ipad itself, and songs are like ghosts in there. By ghosts, I mean that each of them have a blank circle next to the song number.
I manually transfer my music.
Does anyone know what's happening, and how can I form my ipad to receive my music and play lists from my itunes?
Thanks.
E

Did you copy the \Music\iTunes\ folder from your old computer to your new computer? That's what you need to do.

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