Audiobooks Purchased From Apple Can Now Be Re-Downloaded Through iCloud

[TheAppleFairy]

Oh good, I recently emailed Apple about this because my computer didn't have my backup copy of Atlas Shrugged and iTunes wanted me to buy it again. Gonna test it out now, I almost changed to audible.com because of this.
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Yup it is working for me

 

[CIA]

I'm more concerned that if there is a unabridged version of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", then there must exist an abridged version... How can you shorten a 24 page children book?

 

[iSee]

Excellent! It was a weird, olde fashioned, omission to their store.

I've got some audio book gobbling down some GBs on my laptop hard drive because -- although I'll probably never want to listen to them again -- I can't bring myself to delete them and haven't spent the time to figure out a better idea to back them up.

Perhaps I should delete them now... of course the ability to redownload will expire at some point in the future, but that's probably remote enough that I'll take my chances.

 

[zorinlynx]

Great news! I guess all that's left now is to have Ring Tones available in iCloud?

Yeah! Not to mention it's still convoluted to make them. I have to manually edit the file in Audacity to be the right sample rate and short enough, then export it as AIFF, import that into iTunes, tell iTunes to convert it to AAC, find the file on the disk, rename it to m4r, and re-import it.

Apple really should just let you right-click any audio file and "Convert to ringtone".

 

[schmidt65]

I love this article. I have had a screaming 11 month old who would not settle this evening (hasn't done for days), got her up and let her play with her toys for a bit so I had a quick look at the web and saw this article, thought 'she loves the tv film, maybe I'll try this audiobook to settle her', and it worked!! 2 1/2 hours of crying and finally she's asleep, and all thanks to whoever wrote this article! Thank you thank you thank you

 

[k2director]

I usually try to buy everything from Apple to keep it all within one ecosystem, but Apple's HORRIBLE handling of audiobooks over the years (no easy re-downloads, forgetting last read positions, not synching positions between devices, high prices, etc.) moved me over to Audible, and I can't imagine ever going back to Apple. They just don't deserve the business.

 

[081440]

I'm more concerned that if there is a unabridged version of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", then there must exist an abridged version... How can you shorten a 24 page children book?

This was my first thought! What is the abridged version like?!

 

[Smigit]

Well, since they took away the audiobook features in iOS 6 when they made iOS 7 and I was dumb enough to upgrade I have now learned my lesson and buys my books from other sources.

What features are you missing? The built in apps have re-added chapter listings which was the big one for me that it lost.

 

[aloshka]

About the iPad pro, yes it really works for me, works very well. I am surprised how fast I could find solutions/alternatives for my old workflow to use it for everything. The gamechanger was getting the keyboard/cover thing from Apple. It's a really nice keyboard and it took that last bit of "i still need a laptop" away. Now I use it both for work and at home.

At work I use it with Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Workflow, Dropbox, Graphic(old iDraw), Scanbot mostly but also a few of the Adobe apps. I make salespresentations, customer offers, take orders, designing products, planning production, editing photos, making marketing folders, etc. The best thing is that now "work" is actually a lot more fun than it used to be

When I get home I just disconnect the keyboard/cover and jump up in the sofa and use it for HBO, games, surfing the web, etc. Works great!

That's cool. I'm waiting for the 21st event, hoping that they will release the 9" version of the ipad pro (I care mostly about the pencil). I have some wicked cool ideas for some apps that use the pencil, but don't want to buy a ipad pro just yet. It's almost impossible to test pencil stuff on the emulator.

Friggin excited though! Glad iPad pro is working out.

 

[andywaynebrooks]

Thats cool.... So how does one go about restoring audiobooks previously purchased in iOS and OS X?

 

[Ryanoko]

Not working for me in the UK

Me neither. I was almost happy for this news as it's something i've wanted for years

 

[darkknight14]

Not working for me in the UK

Neither for me.. Have some audiobooks I bought back in 09 that I'd love to have back!

 

[auero]

Damn, I just bought a book off audible the other day because of this being unavailable.

 

[1129708]

It's pretty sad that they're just now getting this basic functionality in. With Audible having it for so long, and the monthly subscription/credit system, I still don't see a very compelling reason to change shops.

 

[APlotdevice]

****, I'm glad I've always just gone through Audible. Had no idea that Audiobooks had been that ***** on iTunes.

 

[nt5672]

Apple recently updated its policy on audiobooks, allowing customers who have purchased audiobooks directly from Apple to re-download them using iTunes in the Cloud through iBooks on iOS devices or through iTunes on a Mac or PC. Audiobooks are now listed in a customer's iBooks purchase history and can be re-downloaded just like standard e-books.

Until Apple gets tired of the service, and drops it.

 

[frosty001]

Another one in the UK here. Not working either.

 

[Phil A.]

Another one in the UK here. Not working either.

I'm in the uk and they don't show up in my purchases either. However, if I search the store for books I've bought, they show with a cloud icon and I can download them. I guess it's just not fully caught up yet

 

[jonnysods]

"Well..yes...anything you purchase from Apple should allow people to redownload...not one stop shop." -Pink Panther.

Same, I actually thought this was already a feature.

 

[swingerofbirch]

It doesn't show up in my library like other Cloud items (such as music, TV shows, movies), and it's not under the Purchased section either. If I search the store for the item I can re-download them. I've bought so many though that I can't remember all the ones I've had in the past. I hope they just add them all to the library.

Unlike other people in this forum, I was never able to get CS to grant me permission to re-download my audiobooks.

EDIT: Majority of my audiobooks I've purchased still show Buy instead of Download. Going to go through this with Apple CS again, and again I am guessing their response will be that the items are no longer in the store even though they are.

 

[Tech198]

I would of thought this would have been one thing Apple did in line with any other purchase.

First time i heard of this, because i don't download audio books. Glad to see it should be as it it should be

 

[AxoNeuron]

Welcome to the 21st century Apple.

Now, if you would only upgrade the base model iPhones and iPads to 32GB, you can finally say you've left 2011 behind....

Honestly, it's a bunch of really idiotic stupid policies like this one that made me finally make the switch to Android. Maybe when Apple finally catches up to the competition in all these different areas I might finally switch back.

 

[praetorian909]

Finally! Few weeks ago I didn't even know Audiobooks weren't able to be redownloaded, I just assumed it was like music and movies.

This will make it a lot easier--I had to help someone and ending up copying the file from one MacBook (used to purchase the book) to another, and then syncing to their iPhone over the wire.

 

[dsut4392]

I'm more concerned that if there is a unabridged version of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", then there must exist an abridged version... How can you shorten a 24 page children book?

Next we'll have the vegan version, the gluten intolerant version, the palaeo version and the organic version as well

 

[MacBH928]

I don't understand, audiobooks was always available from iTunes, what different now ? You could always redownload them too.