How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

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Grace Liu
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How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby Grace Liu » 14 Jan 2017 13:40

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The following tutorial can be mirrored with all types of imports (CD, your hard drive, external hard drives) and most file formats (MP3, m4a, m4b). If you have files that were purchased through iTunes, these are alterable too. The exception is downloaded Apple Music files, which are not qualified for this fix.

1) Import and locate the track(s) you want to convert from your iTunes Music library to your iTunes Audiobooks tab. If you are importing from a CD (granted we’re a dying breed), before you proceed learn about merging tracks in our bonus tutorial below!

2) Found it? Sweet. In order to relocate it to Audiobooks, simply secondary click the audio file and select Get Info.

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Note: If you have multiple tracks to move, mark all of them and then click Get Info. When asked Are you sure you want to edit information for multiple items? Click Edit Items.

3)Select the Options tab and click the drop down menu next to media kind. Hit Audiobook and rubber-stamp Ok in the bottom right corner. As soon as this is executed, your files will be moved out of sight and filed away in the Audiobooks section.

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4)To double check, click the main media switch on your left hand side (encircled in red in the picture below) and select Audiobooks in the drop down menu. If everything panned out according to plan, your import is now officially an audiobook. It’s that simple!

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In my example, I would next secondary click the album cover to fill in all details of the book and equip it with a fitting cover image, but this comes down to personal preference and I would never misuse a tutorial to tell you to embellish your iTunes files.

It goes without saying that this strategy works both ways and can be easily inverted in case you want an audiobook to appear in your music catalogue instead.

Mikssa
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Re: How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby Mikssa » 09 Mar 2018 17:34

Thanks for your nice sharing. As for me to convert music is to use the DRM removal tool-DRM Audio Converter. If you are iTunes fan, you may have known there is no right for us to re-encode or share iTunes audios to other devices, all iTunes audios are in M4P which DRM protected, making it impossible to be played on Apple unauthorized devices. But now, you can use such a tool to remove DRM from iTunes and convert audios from M4P to MP3, AAC, etc at faster speed with zero loss quality. Maybe you can learn its detail functions on Tuneskit official site. Hope this point is useful to you. Good luck.

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Re: How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby Grace Liu » 12 Mar 2018 11:09

Mikssa wrote:Thanks for your nice sharing. As for me to convert music is to use the DRM removal tool-DRM Audio Converter. If you are iTunes fan, you may have known there is no right for us to re-encode or share iTunes audios to other devices, all iTunes audios are in M4P which DRM protected, making it impossible to be played on Apple unauthorized devices. But now, you can use such a tool to remove DRM from iTunes and convert audios from M4P to MP3, AAC, etc at faster speed with zero loss quality. Maybe you can learn its detail functions on Tuneskit official site. Hope this point is useful to you. Good luck.


Okay, thanks for your information. :D :D

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Re: How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby Kerryling » 22 Mar 2018 15:53

What a useful tutorial! As one of the biggest online media manager, iTunes is the smart choice to collect your all music and audiobook files. Beyond no doubt, this is the guide lots of people looking for. In fact, also some people are looking for a professional solution to convert iTunes audiobooks to other devices for enjoying them anywhere without Internet connection. The best solution as for me is to convert iTunes audiobook M4B to MP3 files compatible with almost all devices using DRmare iTunes Audiobook Converter for Mac easily. If you have the same requirement, you can try this trial version to test its performance.

Miles_Gonzalez
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Re: How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby Miles_Gonzalez » 25 Mar 2018 21:15

That is very easy to convert common music files to M4B audiobooks on iTunes.
Go to preferences > change the option 'Import using' as AAC codec' and then change the type as 'audiobooks'. Then you can go back to the songs in iTunes and choose 'Convert' > 'Create audiobook version' to convert the music to M4B audiobooks. If you think that is still complicated, you can also use another third party software such as DRmare Audio Converter to convert any formats of files to any new files. You can google to find the software online.

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Re: How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby Annie_Yazbeck » 28 Aug 2018 20:07

Would you like to convert music tracks from iTunes to audiobooks? If your audio files are Apple Music files, you can have a try of AudFree Apple Music Converter, with which you can easily convert Apple Music files to M4A, M4B, and other audiobook formats with one click.
For more detailed information, you can search it on Google.

caddiesytgvwo
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Re: How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby caddiesytgvwo » 30 Aug 2019 16:06

That is easy. you can click "Get info" from the iTunes to open the preferences tab, then you can change the file type to convert your music to Audiobook.
By the way, if you'd like to convert audiobook to MP3 songs, then you can use an DRmare Audio Converter for Windows. This software can convert any drm files to MP3 songs in an easy way.

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Re: How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby lyla_can_wait » 15 Oct 2019 13:53

To convert iTunes audiobook to other formats, except for using iTunes, I will share 3 other methods with you guys.
Solution 1. Convert M4A to MP3 with Audacity
Solution 2. Convert M4A to MP3 Online
Solution 3. Convert DRM M4A Files to MP3 with Dedicated M4A Converter
As mentioned in the beginning, most of the M4A audios you downloaded from iTunes are encrypted with DRM and restricted to play on iTunes and iOS devices only. And those 3 free M4A to MP3 converting tools are supposed to work with the DRM-free M4A files only. To convert iTunes M4A audiobooks, you'll need a more powerful M4A converter, like TunesKit Audio Converter, which is dedicated removing DRM and converting iTunes M4A to MP3 without any quality loss.

kaland
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Re: How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby kaland » 03 Jun 2020 15:19

Part 1. Convert iTunes M4A songs to MP3.
Part 2. Import converted iTunes music to Audiobooks easily.
iTunes M4P files are more exclusive and can only be opened in iTunes. If you need to convert these files to MP3 format, UkeySoft Apple Music Converter will be your ideal choice. This is the ultimate tool for Apple Music files, audiobooks, and m4p audio and convert songs to unprotected MP3, M4A, etc. After conversion, you are able to import music tracks to Audiobooks for streaming.

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Re: How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?

Postby Bella Gorden » 17 Aug 2020 14:29

If you want to convert iTunes audiobooks to plain formats, you may need the help of Tunelf Audio Converter. It can help you convert iTunes audiobooks to MP3 and other plain audio formats with ease.


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