Hi Falcon and Ray, Well you solved my problem. Problem was that I did not take into account the length of the ring tones. The itunes issue, not importing them into the right source table, is resolved by hitting vo space inside finder on each ringtone to import. Works like a charm. Thanks a lot guys. Simply importing the m4r files from within itunes by hitting command plus o did not work, so just have itunes set as the default m4r player, which is by default on the mac, and then when itunes sees the file, it imports it as a ringtone and it then lands into the correct table. Thanks again.
Paul. On Jan 21, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi there! > I'll only add if you like! > For only ringtones they can be up to 39 seconds and if you want to use them > for either text alerts or ringtones then they must be 30 seconds or less! > Colin > On 21 Jan 2012, at 14:59, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > >> First, are you making sure the length of each .m4r file is at or under 30 >> seconds? >> >> Next point. When you go to your Iphone in the main ITunes table, are you >> selecting to synch Ringtones? In connection with the last point, did you >> make sure that all your ringtone files are inside the designated Ringtone >> folder within the ITunes Media folder off your ITunes folder off the music >> folder off your home folder? Make sure those files all reside there and >> when you go to the Iphone column on the table, you want to make sure you are >> on the Ringtone tab and then, interact with the scroll area to the right of >> the tabs and check the synch Ringtones option there. >> >> It's been a little while since I've done it but that method worked well for >> me. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! >> >> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! >> >> Skype name: >> barefootedray >> >> Facebook: >> facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 >> >> >> >> On Jan 21, 2012, at 8:40 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
