Hi Ricardo, Fortunately, that was not the problem. I.e.: itunes imports just fine if you simply hit vo space on each individual ring tone you want imported. As Falcon and Ray said, it should be 30 seconds or less. If you don't take care of that, then the ring tone will import just fine, but it won't synch to the iphone, saying there were errors because the new ring tones won't play on the phone. Amadeus has a preset file type to export to an iphone ring tone, which is m4r in one simple go. It works now. Thanks for thinking along.
Paul. On Jan 21, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
