How to Convert Music Tracks to Audiobook in iTunes?
Posted: 14 Jan 2017 13:40
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.
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.
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!
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.