Oops, I meant to also include the link to Tim's VoiceOver Downloads page for the RestartAt AppleScript: http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html
That's mostly a convenience for easily choosing start and stop times -- or really for starting the playback of any track at a specific time of your choosing. Cheers, Esther On Dec 5, 10:34 am, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Wow Esther! I'm going to hang on to these excellent instructions and if the > day comes when I absolutely have to make a ringtone out of something, I'll > give it a try. > > I love your instructions; they are always so clear and I appreciate that a > lot. > > Marlaina > > On Dec 5, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Tim, Marlaina, and Others, > > For creating new ringtones from tracks in your iTunes music library, I > think that the easiest way now is to get an AppleScript named "Make > Ringable", which automates the process of creating ringtones from your > own music. You need to download the AppleScript from: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=makeringable > and place it in your user account under the Library/iTunes/Scripts > folder. If this is the first time you've used an AppleScript in > iTunes, you'll have to create the Scripts folder. You also need to set > the start and stop time for a section from your selected music track > to be used as a ringtone on the Options tab, before applying the "Make > Ringable" AppleScript. Then the instructions are: > > 1. Select the track from the music library and then press cmd-i for > Get Info > 2. Press on the Options tab. > 3. Enter the start and stop time for your ringtone in the > corresponding text fields (this should be less than 39 seconds) > 4. Press OK. > 5. Since the track is already highlighted, navigate to the Scripts > menu (created when you added the AppleScript) on the iTunes menu bar > (VO-m and VO-left arrow twice), arrow down to "Make Ringable", and > press return. > 6. Follow the dialog window prompts. You'll be given the option to > reset the start and stop times to full track play before exiting the > script. > > The script will create a ringtone of the appropriate file type, and > name of your choosing, and add it to your ringtones library. The > original music track is unaltered. This should work on any track in > your music library unless you have the early iTunes Music Store tracks > from a few years ago with DRM that prohibits this. And for an easy > way to determine the start and stop times you want to apply, get the > RestartAt AppleScript from Tim's VoiceOver Downloads page: > > This will let you start playing any track in your iTunes library at > the time you enter into the dialog window text box. This works the > same way: place the AppleScript in the Library/iTunes/Scripts folder > under you user account, then use it by highlighting a track and > navigating to the "RestartAt" option in the Scripts menu on your > iTunes menu bar. > > I wrote up a post for the viphone list, but with details and more time > spent describing how AppleScripts work. If you simply read the > instructions that download with the "Make Ringable" AppleScript, or > that Tim provides on his web site, you don't really need more > information, but if you want to read the viphone list post for more > details, here's the link: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg3501... > (Re: making mp3 into ringtone). > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
