I successfully uploaded a book using iBook Author.  I need to make a correction. I keep getting this error message: ERROR ITMS-9000: "Files of type audio/x-m4a are not allowed outside of widgets: assets/media/chick02.m4p" at Book (MZItmspBookPackage)

I appreciate any help or assistance.  I have been trying to update one of my books for for the past few days with no success.  I really just need to change two letters. But since I was updating I thought I would make a couple more improvements.  I clicked disable portrait and made my pictures a little bigger to fit the whole page.  But now I keep getting this error for multiple sound effects throughout the book. ERROR ITMS-9000: "Files of type audio/x-m4a are not allowed outside of widgets: assets/media/chick02.m4p" at Book (MZItmspBookPackage).  I did not change the audio.  The audio files are placed in widgets.  I had no problem the first time it uploaded. I have recreated my whole book from scratch and it still does not work. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thank you for your attention to my question.

Florida author wrote:
Could it matter that I am dragging my audio files onto my document?  They appear to be in a widget once dragged in. I use the widget insector to make changes. However,  I did not go to the top of the screen and click widget and then insert my audio file.
I don't believe that would make any difference. Drag-and-drop is just a UI shortcut for using the menu items.
Also some of the audio file were used in previous books.  Would that cause an error?
No. Each book is a stand-alone entity. It doesn't matter if the same audio file appears in another book.
From what people have reported here, it looks like there is a bug in the submission system. Other than trying the suggestions posted in the linked-to thread, I don't think there is anything you can do to fix it.
I would submit a bug report to Apple though. Quite a lot of people seem to be affected by this problem, and if they hear about the same problem from lots of different sources, that will (presumably) elevate the importance of fixing it.
Michi.

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