Music from old iPad to new via mac

I recently got a new Macbook air (old PC dying) and then a new iPad air.  After much effort, I finally got all my music transferred to the Macbook from my old iPad (1st generation), but can't get it all transferred to the new iPad.  It seems the tunes I bought from iTunes made it, but not the ones I downloaded from CDs.  Any suggestions?
Thanks

Hello lynton123,
It sounds like you have music that you want to transfer from your iPad to your new computer. You can use the Transfer Purchases function to get your iTunes and App Store purchases copied to your computer:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
Any media that you had imported to your previous iTunes library and synced to your device will have to be re imported to iTunes, and synced over again.
If you still have access to the computer that the iPad used to sync to, you can use this article to copy over the iTunes library from the original computer to the new one:
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
All the best,
Sterling

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