[AFreeBird]

I’ve been loading my own music into my I devices since the iphone3GS. I imported my CD rips into iTunes on my desktop and it synced to the I devices.

You’re operating under misinformation.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I'm sure that you are correct in that you need iTunes to load music onto the iPad2. But I'm not interested in iTunes and registering and all that. But a lot of folks swear by iTunes so clearly many folks find it useful.

Myself, I have a cheap phone (not a smart phone) that I put music on. It is really simple. Plug in a USB cable and copy the songs over from whatever. The cheap phone just looks like a generic external drive to other devices. That is about a complex as I care to deal with, LOL.

[raybbr]

Right. But! You have to put all your music in one library. You can’t synch music from two different computers. It’s a pain.