How do I transfer voice memos into my iTunes account?

I tried all the options above, with no success. I have an iPhone 6 and I record my kids' live performances via voice memo but like to create a playlist to listen to them later (voice memos over bluetooth in the car are of poor quality). I finally found the right answer here: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-download-an-iPhone-voice-memo-as-a-song-in-my-mus ic-How-do-I-do-this

1. Dock your iPhone via USB

2. Click the name of your iPhone under Devices in the left column

3. Click the Music tab

4. Click the checkbox for Include voice memos

5. Sync your device

6. Your files will appear under a new Voice Memos playlist

7. You can right-click on a memo to perform advanced tasks or gain access to the actual audio file.

Now right-click on the memo you want, select "Get info".

In the "Get info" window under the "options" menu you will find "voice memo" selected as "Media kind". Change it to "Music" so that voice memo will be transferred to music library with your other songs. Then sync iPhone with music library and you will find it on your iPhone in music app.

Thanks to Mikir Patel!

If you want to have your voice memos added to iCloud so that you can create a playlist in iTunes/Apple Music with them that is synced on all your iCloud devices, I've finally figured it out!

1. Get the voice memo into iTunes (I downloaded them from Dropbox, opened them in iTunes on my computer).

2. Convert them from m4a to AAC in iTunes (File> Convert> AAC). iTunes will create a new copy of the file in AAC, so you'll have two copies of the song in iTunes now-- one in m4a, one in AAC.

3. Click the triple dots to the right of the newly created AAC file. Select "Add to iCloud".

4. Watch the spinning circle in the top right corner, the file will show DOWNLOADED when it's finished. The dotted iCloud icon becomes solid. It worked!

5. Watch the song show up in your "Recently Added" section of iTunes/Apple Music on any of your devices 🙂

6. Add to any playlist!

From the iPhone User Manual:

As the article says, Voice Memos will appear as a playlist in iTunes (along with your other music playlists).

I believe it will not be there until finally you try to move some voice memos over from your iPhone. Then iTunes will create it, as I recall.

Glad that helped.

Enjoy your iPhone!

I have tried this over and over, and it still won't work. Each time I select include voice memos, but after syncing, the memo I'm trying to transfer still won't appear in my itunes library.

To transfer iPhone voice memos to iTunes on PC, you can try Amacsoft iPhone to PC transfer. We can move voice memos to computer easily with it, then just need to darg transferred voice memos to iTunes. Wish it help!

If you have a Voice Memo on your iPhone that you want to transfer on to your iTunes, simply visit iTunes when your iPhone is plugged in and select the iPhone’s settings. Then press, ‘Include voice memos’ in the sync bar; when you next sync your iPhone to your computer, they will appear in a playlist called ‘Voice Memos’.You can also use the Coolmuster iPhone iPad iPod to computer transfer to help you.

Warning: This is not allowed with 10.9 OS.

Only $30. For a file transfer service. When does it end with Apple gimmics?

If nothing else works. Get iPhone Explorer(free). Go to Media —> Recordings. Copy the file to your Desktop by dragging it to your homescreen. Double click the files to play your recordings, which will open in iTunes.

By doing this this the entire importing/syncing process is eliminated.

Try Amacsoft iPhone transfer, we can use it to move iPhone voice memos to computer at first, it's just few simple steps, then drag the transferred file to iTunes. Try it yourself!

I'm using an iPhone 4 and did the transfer this way. Maybe roundabout, but it worked.

Go to the voice memo. Choose the voice memo. Select the "share" (box w/up arrow) button, and emailed the memo to myself. Then I have a m4a version of the voice mail which I can drag onto my desktop or put into iTunes.