Thanks to Sieghart for the nice instructions.
and sorry if this question has allready been asked, what program can we
use under win8.1 to select and save part of a song to create a ring tone?
thanks alot
Andrea
Il 06/04/2015 03:37, Gary Petraccaro ha scritto:
I can do the converting with no problems. I can get it back on the
phone, too. What I don't know how to do is get it out of my message
on the phone and into iTunes on my computer.
I know. Abysmal ignorance, but there it is.
Suggestions welcomed.
Thanks.
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*From:* Sieghard Weitzel <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, April 03, 2015 2:56 PM
*Subject:* RE: Ringtones Again
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.
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