Publish your audiobook on Spotify with everything ready before you upload

Spotify says publishers and self-published authors with the Upload audiobook permission can submit through Spotify for Authors. Check Spotify's current eligibility and payment-profile requirements before you begin.

Spotify currently lists MP3, WAV, and FLAC. Its alert guidance includes additional technical requirements, so review the live Spotify guidance before exporting your final chapter files.

Spotify for Authors offers a referral path to Voices by INaudio for wider retailer distribution. It requires extra distribution details, and Spotify notes that digital-voice-narrated titles are not currently shared with that referral partner.

Spotify says directly uploaded titles can be available to listeners within 72 hours, subject to processing. A title can show in Drafts and briefly disappear while it processes, so treat 72 hours as a guideline rather than a launch date.

Spotify's alert guidance lists the ISBN among the metadata that can block availability. It expects a 13-digit audiobook ISBN that is unique to the audiobook edition, so do not reuse your print or ebook ISBN.

A square PNG or JPEG. Spotify recommends 3000 x 3000 px. Check that the title is still readable at thumbnail size.

Spotify describes direct uploads through Spotify for Authors as non-exclusive. Review the current distribution terms before you publish elsewhere.

No. NarrationBox helps you create, revise, and export chapter-based audiobook audio for your publishing workflow. Spotify decides current submission requirements and acceptance.

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