Hi there!
Just to let you know alerts can be up to 29 seconds and ringtones 39 and if you 
like when you've changed to M4R then just command+o and it should just start 
playing and be added to the ringtones section of your iTunes!
hth Colin

On 7 Feb 2013, at 05:30, Stacey Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Alex,
> Is that all I do?
> rename the extension and put the tone in automatically add to itunes?
> 
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 11:27 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> 
>> Locate them in the finder, or Windows explorer, and rename their extensions. 
>> My understanding is that iTunes and iOS rely on file extensions to 
>> categorise, but at the end of the day all those files are just AAC. So, to 
>> make a ringtone, you'd create the AAC file and rename it to .m4r. Music is 
>> .m4a, books are .m4b. Since they are all AAC "under the hood", you can 
>> rename the extensions with no actual conversion required. Also, ringtones 
>> have a max length of around 40 seconds, and alert tones I think around 10.
>> On Feb 7, 2013, at 12:21 AM, Stacey Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> I purchased a bunch of ringtones from iTunes, and for some reason, iTunes 
>>> thinks they're music.
>>> I looked, and they are m4a files.
>>> How do I convert them to m4r so they will be tones like they're supposed to 
>>> be?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Stacey
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