How do I Transfer Audible Audiobook to iTunes? [Solved]

In the past, we normally acquire knowledge by reading the book in person. But with the technology developing, now we also can get the information by listening to the audiobook. Audible is one of the most popular audiobook service platforms providing a great number of digital audiobooks for users. If you are a part of them, you probably like to listen to your favorite books from iTunes on your PC when you are at home or on iPhone when you're out walking or driving.

So, can we transfer Audible Audiobook to iTunes? Absolutely, if you are a Mac user, you must be familiar with iTunes, because of in the iOS operating system, which is an essential program for playing digital media files like videos, audios. It is also very easy to import Audible book to iTunes. But if you are a Windows audience, maybe you feel strange with iTunes, please don't worry. Here in this article, I will tutor you how to transfer Audible audiobook to iTunes.


Part 1. Transfer Audible Book to iTunes on Mac/PC

Solution 1. Download Audible Audiobooks to iTunes on Mac

As for the Mac users, iTunes is the unique official player to Audible for Mac, so the process of adding Audible books on iTunes is very intuitive. You can download the file and add it to iTunes at the same time.

Step 1. Log in the Audible account and choose the audiobooks you would like to download.

Step 2. Touch the 'Download' button, you will see a pop-up window showing that 'Authorize the computer'.

Step 3. Click 'Yes' and then enter the account email and password to authorize it.

Step 4. Your audiobook will start downloading. Once it finished, you can find it from the iTunes library.

Solution 2. Import Audiobook to iTunes on Windows PC

If you are a Windows user, you need to install the Audible Download Manager to download the audiobooks. It supports to three options to put Audible audiobook including Windows Media Player, iTunes, etc.

Utilize the Audible Download Manage

Step 1. Install Audible Download Manager on your PC. To add audiobooks to iTunes, please click on "General Settings" and make sure to select "iTunes" under the "After download import files to" menu.

Step 2. Log in to the Audible website, browse and select your favorite audiobooks to download from the library, and then click the "Download" button.

Step 3. Before starting the download progress, it will pop-up a window on the Audible Download Manager asking you to authorize the computer, please click 'OK'.

Step 4. Waiting for download progress finished, you can find these audiobooks files and added to iTunes library directly. However, sometimes the files may not be added successfully if some exceptions occurred. In this case, you may try to do that manually.

Import files to iTunes manually

Step 1. Launch iTunes, click 'File'>'Add File to Library’

Step 2. Go to the folder of your downloaded books. By default, the files are stored in the folder. C:\Users\Public\Documents\Audible\Downloads.
Step 3. Highlight the audiobook and click 'Open'. The file will be imported immediately.

Part 2. Play AA/AAX Audiobooks on iTunes

To finish this work, you just need to go to the 'Audiobook' section on iTunes to find your books and double-click the imported AA/AAX file to start playing. Here are a few tips for enhancing your listening experience.

1. You can click on the 'Chapters' to choose the chapter you want instead of playing from the beginning.

2. If you intend to listen to multiple audiobooks continually, you can simply change the playback mode as 'loop' or right click on files and choose 'Add to Playlist' to generate a new playlist.

3. In order to fast forward or backward, you can click playback control buttons.

Part 3. Import Audile Files to iTunes without Account.

As an audiobook enthusiast, once you cancel subscribe Audible services or lost your Audible account, which means that all your collected audiobooks are lost. What can we do to prevent this situation? In this part, we will introduce a useful method to permanently save audiobook in iTunes. To achieve this goal, we should get rid of DRM restriction from Audible at first.

Bypassing DRM protection is a challenge, especially if you don't have an Audible account. Luckily, I found a powerful third-party program AudFree DRM Audio Converter. It will help you completely remove DRM protection from Audible with keeping the original audio quality. You can convert any Audible books without any hassles. Moreover, it enables you to cut large audiobook into small clips either by chapters or fixed time interval.

For more info about this solution, you can view: How to Convert Audible to MP3 on Windows/Mac.

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