How to transfer my music from my laptop to my Iphone 5s?

I have a Toshiba, it has windows 8 but that has nothing to do. Ok, I ripped couple of my cd's into my laptop and I want to transfer all the songs to my IPhone. But everytime I connect the USB, and I go to my Pc > Music and right click on an album or song there's an option that says "Send to" and I click Apple I Phone and then it says "can't copy item the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected".
I don't know why this is happening, i've tried it a lot.
How can I do it?
And is there a way to do it via Windows Media Player?

Have you heard of iTunes?
You pretty much need to import your files/movies/music/etc onto iTunes first and then sync it with your iDevice in order to put any media onto it.
http://www.apple.com/...om/itunes/

The ONLY way to transfer anything other than pictures to your iPhone, is through iTunes, which is Apple's own version Windows Media Player. It can be downloaded at http://www.apple.com/....com/itun…

You have an iPhone, so you should know to use iTunes. Right? That moves all music that's in you itunes library CDs included to you apple devices.