Hi Gary,
You can import it into iTunes easily enough, but you can’t use an MP3 ringtone on your iPhone, it will have to be converted to M4A format and then renamed with an M4R extension. In order to add it to your iTunes music library (it will be recognized by iTunes as a song), it’s probably just the easiest if you copy it into the “Automatically add to iTunes” folder which is located in your iTunes media folder. Let me know if uyou need more specific instructions, but I just assume you know how to find your iTunes Media and automatically Add to iTunes folder and that you know how to copy and paste the ringtone. Make sure iTunes is closed first, then copy it and open iTunes. iTunes should move the ringtone automatically to your music folder and add it to your music library, you’ll have to find it there. If it has no ID3 tags, it will most likely be at the very bottom of your list of songs. Now, as for converting it: First go to “Edit” and “Preferences” and tab down in the General tab to “Import”. Activate the button and make sure the setting is “AAC Encoder”. Next, when you are on the ringtone, right click on it and arrow down to “Create AAc Version” and press enter. This will make an M4A version of your rington which should be right underneath the original version. Now right click on that one and select “show in Windows Explorer” from the menu. This will open the folder where the ringtone is located, most likely your music folder in iTunes Media and put you right on it. I recommend you cut the song from there and then go to your Tones or ringtones folder and paste it here. Now you have to rename the extension from M4A to M4R. Most likely your extensions will be hidden, in order to show them go to “Tools” and “Folder Options” when you are in the Ringtones folder, Control+Tab once to the “View” tab, tab twice to put focus into the treeview of options and then page down. This should put you on or close to the entry you want. You may have to arrow down once or twice, in any way, arrow around until you find the following entry: Hide extensions for known file types – On You can toggle this on and off by pressing the space bar. If it is on, press space once so it’s off, then tab twice to the “OK” button and activate it. Now when you are on your ringtone, you should hear its name and the extension. For example, if the ringtone is called “Office Phone Modern”, you would hear “Office Phone Modern.m4a”. You can now use F2 to rename the file, most important is that you have to make sure to change the letter A at the end to an R, it should read “Office Phone Modern.m4r” to use my example. Once that has been accomplished, you can go back to Tools and folder Options, Control+Tab, tab twice into the treeview and find the “Hide extensions for known file types” again, change it back to “On” with the spacebar and select “OK”. Lastly, when you are back on your new M4R ringtone, press enter on it, that should start it playing in iTunes and that action will automatically make sure it is added to your tones library. You are now ready to sync it to your phone. If you have iTunes already set up to sync all tones, you just have to initiate a sync. If you haven’t synced any tones or have it set to sync only selected tones, you have to connecrt your phone, go to your device, then tab into the list view which starts with “Summary” and find Tones. Now tab until you get to the checkbox to “Sync tones”, check it and tab on to either “Sync All Tones” or “Sync Selected tones”. If you choose to sync selected tones, you have to also tab into the listview of tones and find the ones you want, check them by pressing the spacebar and then do a sync. I know this all sounds very complicated, but it really is not so hard once you do it a few times. If you don’t want to go through all the steps to rename the ringtone, just send it to me as an attachment, you can use [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> and I’ll convert and rename it for you and send it back, then you just have to copy it into your tones folder and press enter on it to play it. Of course you still have to sync it to your phone. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Petraccaro Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 1:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Ringtones Again Someone just sent me a message with a ringtone attached. It's an MP3. How do I save it to iTunes on my Win7 64-bit computer? Thanks. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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