How can I listen to my mp3 audiobooks on iPhone?

Question

I have a collection of seminars recorded as mp3. In iTunes, I marked them as audiobooks.

I have an Apple music account, so I can access my music library through iCloud, including those I recorded myself or ripped from my CDs.

My audiobooks do not show up on the iCloud and I cannot access them on my iPhone (iOS 12.3.1).

I do not see them in the Music app, I do not see them in the Books app -although it has an audiobooks section.

I found some 3rd party apps on the store that play mp3 audiobooks, but I'd prefer using the Books or Music app.

Is there a way to do this? If so, how?

Note: I asked this question in Apple Communities but it did not attract much attention.

Answer 1

According to the support article for iTunes Match, tracks will not be uploaded to your iCloud Music Library if they:

• are longer than 2 hours
• are larger than 200 MB
• "don't meet certain quality criteria"

The "quality criteria" include the bit rate, and I believe the same criteria apply with Apple Music.

You could try converting one of the files to 128kb/s or higher AAC format, using the start/end time settings in the track's Get Info before converting if it's longer than two hours and/or if needed to get the resulting track under 200 MB. If that track still won't upload then something else is going wrong.