audiobookitunes
I'm running sierra os and want to listen to my audible audiobooks on itunes. The audible website says that I don't need any additional software for Mac:
Mac users using iTunes do not need to download any additional
software. Audible files will download directly into iTunes.
When I go to an audiobook section of my itunes I can't see anything. How do I import the audiobooks? I've downloaded them to the computer.
First, you can save some space by only up-converting to 128kbps m4a or even mp3, perhaps that is what you did already.
The metadata Kind should probably be set as "Music" if not already.
Finally, it's possible that Apple uses the audio fingerprinting to also detect whether it is music at all (but it seems unlikely).
Well I found a way but it's not easy!
Quite a long workaround but hopefully this will help someone else, I'm just glad my audiobooks are playable again :)
Best Answer
I'm not sure why it assumes that files will automatically get imported into iTunes. When I tested just now, the file downloads, but I certainly have to take action beyond that to get it into iTunes.
To import the files into iTunes, go to File > Add to Library (Command-O), then browse to the folder where you downloaded the Audible file. Select the file(s) and click Open. They will be imported into iTunes and at that point you will find them in the Audiobooks section.