Hi Paul, I think you need firs to convert to the M4a format then convert to M4r. I think this might make a difference.
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 21, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Dear listers, > > I thought I understood how to import ring tones into iTunes, but apparently > am missing a detail. Can you please pinpoint the problem? Here's what I do. > > 1. Given a bunch of files from my old Nokia, being mp3 files, I use amadeus > pro to batch convert them into m4r. Amadeus has a simple choice for its > destination file format, where export as iphone ringtone is its name, and it > produces m4r files. From what I understand, m4r is just m4a with another > filename extension. > > 2. Given these new m4r files, I open itunes, hit command o, browse to the m4r > files, select them all, and I hit open. Itunes imports them. > > 3. Even though the files are m4r, they will still import into my music > library. So I go into the itunes music table, I select all my ring tones, I > go to the itunes source list and select ring tones there. Then I paste into > the ring tones table. This works, because the files are there, even after > closing and reopening iTunes. > > However, after synching my iphone, nothing has been added to the ring tones > on the phone. I open a contact from contacts on the phone, edit it, and want > to assign a new ring tone that I just sent to the iPhone, but only the > standard stuff is there. What am I doing wrong? > > Note: while editing metadata of the ring tones once they appear in the itunes > ring tone table, I can choose to set the genre to ring tone, but that does > not help. In another combo box, where you can tell itunes that this is music, > a podcast, a tv show etc, you cannot tell itunes to make it of type ring tone. > > What am I doing wrong here? The problem is in iTunes where I go wrong I > guess, because m4r creation seems to work in amadeus. > > Paul. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
