Import Audible Audiobooks to iCloud with iTunes Match

Audible is a great platform for audiobooks fans. But some limits of it really bother them all the time. Some listener who is the iOS users at the same time may want to upload their audiobooks to iCloud for easier listening. But they failed. Today, we are going to look through the reasons and solutions for this phenomenon.

Why You Can't Do This

Why it prompts the error 'This item not eligible for iCloud sometimes'? In general, this is mostly related to the parameter of your audiobooks is not supported. To sync files to iCloud via iTunes Match, they need to meet some specific criteria as follows.

1. iTunes Match only supports the file formats AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, M4A, M4P, H.264, Apple Lossless, and so on. Songs encoded using AIFF, Apple Lossless or WAV are converted to 256Kbps AAC automatically.

2. iCloud doesn't support songs with a bit rate of 96Kbps or less, so please make sure your audiobook files with higher than 96Kbps bit rate.

3. iCloud has a 200mb size and 2hours length limit for each song, else the large files won't be recognized. Usually, an audiobook is a couple of hours long, you'd better split them into smaller files.

4. For the DRM songs which are downloaded from iTunes before, they will be replaced with DRM free versions. Other DRM files won't be matched.

Divide Audible Audiobooks to Upload to iCloud

So, in order to move your audiobooks to iCloud Music Library, you have to transform your audiobooks to the iTunes Match compatible files. In short, you need a well-designed Audible audiobook converter to help you.

I have downloaded different software on and was frustrated that most of them lack all the features. Fortunately, I found that the TunesKit Audible AA/AAX Converter works just well for me. It has had all related features to help you change the format, get rid of DRM copy protection, split audiobooks, adjust audible bit rate, and much more. It can convert AA/AAX to M4A, MP3, and many other audio formats. All the features are optimized so that it takes only a few clicks for you to encode your audiobooks. To find out how does it work, you can also download it to evaluate it yourself.

How to convert Audible audiobooks to sync to iCloud 

Here are the specific steps for converting.

Download and import Audible books

To get started, you have to download Audible AA or AAX files to your computers first. After that, you can either drag & drop to import the audiobooks to the Audible Converter the main screen or click the 'Add Files' button to browse them easily.

Customize audible file settings

TunesKit software supports a lot of different output formats such as M4A, M4B, AAC, MP3, etc. for different scenarios. For iTunes Match, it is recommended to choose MP3, AAC, M4A which are supported perfectly. In addition, please make sure you select an output bit rate which is higher than 96Kbps.

Split Audible files

Since iTunes Match only supports the files of which the size is less than 200M and the length is shorter than 2 hours, you can choose the option 'Split by chapters' or other options to split by hour/minute etc. to transform the big files to small files.

Remove DRM from audiobooks

In the end, you just need to navigate to the bottom of the software and click 'Convert' to convert the audiobooks.

How to Upload Audible Books to iCloud Music Library

If it is the first time you use iTunes Match, you can follow the steps to sync your audiobook files.

1. Turn on iCloud Music Library from computer and IOS devices. In an IOS device such an iPhone, you can click 'Settings' button > click 'Music' > Slide the toggle button on. On a computer, you can click go to the preferences of iTunes and make sure the 'iCloud Music Library' option is selected under general tab.
2. Import the converted audiobooks to iTunes. Click 'File' menu and then choose 'Add File to Library' to select your Audible files to import.
3. iTunes will automatically scan your iTunes library for matches. For the audio files which are not in the iCloud music library will be uploaded directly. It may take a while.
4. Listen to Audiobooks from iCloud. When the audiobooks are uploaded successfully, you can access them from any Apple devices. Take iPhone for example, you can launch the Music app and then tap the audiobook file you uploaded to start to enjoy. In addition, if you want to listen Audible audiobooks offline, you can also click the three-dot-icon and choose 'Make Available Offline'.

Conclusion

This passage shows the best solution for you to upload Audible audiobooks to iCloud with iTunes Match. And it also teaches how to upload and listen to them after converting them with TunesKit Audible AA/AAX Converter. Just try it by yourself!

 

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