How to sync Audiobooks with iTunes and Apple Music?

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How to sync Audiobooks with iTunes and Apple Music?

Can somebody tell me if I'm correct here....or am I being stupid?

I've used iTunes on a PC for years to sync audiobooks and music to my iPhone. Now it seems that I have to use Apple Music or Devices to sync music buy I still have to use iTunes for the audiobooks. But if I install Apple Music, iTunes doesn't detect my phone so I can't sync the audiobooks. So I uninstall Apple Music to get the books onto my phone and then I can't sync my music.

I'm not an Apple fan boy (far too old apart from anything else) but I've always defended Apple because their systems integrated well and worked. So is it me being daft now or is this business of iTunes/Music/Devices truly a shambles?

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Posted on Feb 21, 2025 3:01 PM

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Spitoon Author

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Mar 26, 2025 1:19 PM in response to turingtest2

Thanks for the help. It's not quite that simple it would seem - the Windows Store version of iTunes does not offer full functionality, it has to be the standalone installer. Took a while to work it out but wouldn't have got there without your pointer!

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turingtest2

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Apr 9, 2025 11:52 AM in response to Spitoon

Spitoon wrote:

Thanks for the help. It's not quite that simple it would seem - the Windows Store version of iTunes does not offer full functionality, it has to be the standalone installer. Took a while to work it out but wouldn't have got there without your pointer!

Thanks for that nugget. I'm now suggesting this direct link for those that need it. Apple have made it harder to find.

https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/win64

tt2

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turingtest2

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Feb 24, 2025 12:40 AM in response to Spitoon

iTunes while being slow and occasionally quirky is still a much better media organizer on its own than it is when combined with Apple Music/Devices/TV which limits it to managing audiobooks and podcasts, and removes the device management features. Right now Apple haven't yet killed off iTunes completely. If you uninstall each of Apple Music/Devices/TV then iTunes should return to full functionality. I see no positives to the new suite, only downsides. Avoid with prejudice.

tt2

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Pocker3

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Mar 28, 2025 12:10 AM in response to Spitoon

In their efforts to streamline and modernize their software, Apple split iTunes into several applications. On Mac, they have Apple Music for music, Apple Podcasts for podcasts, and the Finder for syncing devices.

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