Is there a way to manually update the album artwork on my audiobooks? I am able to add the audiobook mp3 files, which have the artwork attached when I open them in the Apple Music app, but in Books the audiobooks only display the generic artwork.

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Is there a way to manually update the album artwork on my audiobooks? I am able to add the audiobook mp3 files, which have the artwork attached when I open them in the Apple Music app, but in Books the audiobooks only display the generic artwork.

Is there a way to manually update the album artwork on my audiobooks? I am able to add the audiobook's component mp3 files, which have the artwork attached when I open them in the Apple Music app, but in Books the audiobooks only feature the generic Books-generated covers.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Dec 14, 2020 2:22 PM

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greentable Author

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Dec 16, 2020 9:17 PM in response to mightytig

That's great advice! Thank you!

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Dec 18, 2020 1:02 AM in response to greentable

Strangely enough, I am not only having the same issue but actually some of my audiobooks (that I always import after setting the album artwork via iTunes) do in fact display the correct artwork. So this seems to be a bug not a limitation in principle.

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Dec 18, 2020 7:33 AM in response to Groschenroman

I think you're right that there is some bug at play. I am only able to get the artwork to stick in Apple Music when I upload the audiobooks to the iCloud library, delete the local downloads, apply the artwork, and then re-download. But I still haven't been able to get the artwork to come up in Books...

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Dec 16, 2020 8:53 PM in response to greentable

I use AudioBookBinder to convert all of my old mp3 audiobooks to be m4b files that you can update the covers and some info and then they will open perfectly in Books.

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Is there a way to manually update the album artwork on my audiobooks? I am able to add the audiobook mp3 files, which have the artwork attached when I open them in the Apple Music app, but in Books the audiobooks only display the generic artwork.

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