Hi Alan,
You can do one of two things:
First, you can add MP3 books, but as you found out, they will appear in
your
music library. If you are only dealing with a few files at a time, you can
select all the files by holding down the shift key and then arrow down the
list. Now press Control+I for "Get Info". iTunes will ask if you want to
modify information for multiple files and you would say Yes. Now arrow to
the Options tab in the multi-tab dialogue that comes up, tab down I think
it
is 3 times and you come to a drop-down box called Media Kind. Change this
from Music to Audio Book, tab to OK and press enter or space. iTunes will
now treat the selected files as an audio book, you will hear the triple
tone
iTunes makes when it's done doing something and your files will now show
up
in the Books library under Audio Books.
Alternatively, and I find this to be the far better way to do this, is to
get a program like Chapter and Vers from www.LodenSoftware.com. I believe
there is also another one out there called something like MP3 Audio Book
converter, but I am not sure. Anyhow, Chapter and Vers is free and works
well.
What Chapter and Vers does is that it will convert all the MP3 files you
select to M4B which is the iTunes audio book format and then it will merge
all the files into one. You end up with a single Audio Book file, but
whatever length the individual files were before will be preserved as
Chapters and you can use the Previous and Next buttons to jump by those
intervals. If the files are very long and you prefer to have maybe 30
minute
intervals to jump by you can set that as well.
Chapter and Vers uses the iTunes encoder so iTunes will open if you don't
have it open and at the end of the process it will ask you if you want to
add the book to iTunes.
Good luck,
Sieghard
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Alan Paganelli
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 11:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Text alert tones in music folder how to transfer?
Would you by any chance have the step by step directions on how to change
an
audio book in mp3 format to what ever it needs to be so that it will sync
to
themy music, iTunes, Media, Books, Audio Books folder? I tried the
automatically add to iTunes and wound up with a few hundred mp3 files
containing my audio book now in my music. I was listening to music and
heard talking. Hey what's this? LOL! So now I have to hunt them all down
and delete them from the music folder.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35 PM
Subject: RE: Text alert tones in music folder how to transfer?
Hi Shirley,
If you downloaded tones that show up in the music folder they are most
likely in MP3 format.
In order to use them on an iPhone you first have to convert them into
M4A which is the iTunes music, then rename the file extension from M4A
to M4R which hwill tell iTunes and your iPhone that the audio file is
not a song but should be used as a tone to be used as a ringtone, text
tone or alarm sound, .
You also have to make sure the tone is not longer than 40 seconds.
Below are instructions I typed up some time ago and which describe how
you can use iTunes to make a ringtone from any song you have. You can
use these instructions, I changed them so you know which step to skip:
Creating Ringtones from songs using iTune for Windows:
1. Find the song you want to make into a ringtone in your Music tab in
iTunes. In your case find the tone you downloaded and which is now in
your music library. Skip step 2 and continue on with step 3.
2. Right click and select "Get Info". Go to the "Options" tab, tab
down to "Start Time" and check it by pressing the space bar. Tab again
and specify the Start Time.
usually you start at the beginning of the song, i.e. 0:00, but if the
song starts very slow you may want to find a good spot a few seconds
from the beginning where you start the ringtone.
tab one more time to go to "Stop Time", check it also and tab to the
edit field, specify the Stop Time. This will ensure that iTunes will
play the song starting from the specified Start Time to the Stop Time.
Make sure that the stop time doesn't exceed the start time by more
than 40 seconds which is the maximum length of a ringtone.
Click OK.
Press enter to play the song, it will only play the part of the song
you selected and you can see if it sounds good where it starts and stops.
If it stops in the middle of a note or word you can make it a few
seconds shorter to find a better place.
I usually set the stop time to 39 or 40 seconds and then make it
shorter to make it sound good.
The start time is displayed as 0:00 where the first 0 means 0 minutes,
then a ":" and then the 00 after that is for the seconds.
The stop time by default has the ending time of the song, for example
3:23.46 where the first 3 is the number of minutes, then the ":", then
the next 2 digits are the seconds and then a "." and the last number
or numbers is I guess maybe in one tenth of a second or even one
hundreds, not quite sure, but it's a very small increment.
Note:
Instead of right clicking on the song you can also use the Windows
Application Key (some call it the Context menu Key, it's on the right
side of the space bar next to the Control key). Even easier is to use
the keyboard shortcut "Control+I" and this should work in Windows XP
as well as Windows 7.
3. Right click, press the Context Menu Key or press Control+I when you
are on the selected song and select "Creat AAC Version from the context
menu.
Almost immediately you will hear that tri-tone iTunes makes when it's
finished doing something.
This will create an AAC version of the song for only the section of
the song you specified.
This new short song will appear right underneath the original song in
your list of songs, so you just have to down arrow once to find it.
Press enter to play it and to make sure it is as you want it.
In your case this will create an AAC version of your MP3 tone. You can
skip the next line, but read the "Note" following.
you can now go back to the original and, in the Options Tab, uncheck
the start and stop times so that it will play normally again.
Note:
If you don't see a "Create AAC Version option when you right click on
the song, go to "Edit", "Preferences" and in the General tab click on
Import settings, the shortcut is Alt+O.
Make sure that the AAC encoder settings are selected, if MP3 is
selected as the encoder you have to change it to AAC.
I also suggest you check this anyways and make sure you have "iTunes
Plus"
selected for the quality to make sure you create a good quality ringtone.
4. Select the newly created short AAC version of the song in iTunes
and press CTRL+C for "copy". Open your iTunes folder (most likely in
"My Music", go to the "iTunes Media" folder and the "Ringtones"
folder. Press
Control+V
to paste the song into the Ringtones folder.
5. Right click on the file and select rename or press the shortcut
which is F2. Change the extention for the file which will be .M4A to
.M4R. Confirm that you want to rename the file.
Note:
If you press F2 and don't see the extention, go to "Tools" and "Folder
Option". On the "View Tab" turn off "Hide Extentions for known file
types".
You can turn it back on after you are done creating your ringtones.
6. After you have renamed the song with the .M4R extention, once again
press "Control+C" to copy the song to your clipboard.
7. Close the Ringtones Folder and go back to iTunes. Go to the "Tones
Library" in the source list and tab once to get into the list of
ringtones.
Press "Control+V" to paste your new ringtone into your list of
available ringtones.
8. Go back to the Music Library, find the short version of the song
you created and press delete, when prompted select "Move to recycle bin".
This is OK because you already moved the ringtone to the Ringtones
folder and no longer need this copy of it.
9. Sync your iPhone with iTunes and your new ringtone will be available.
Note:
If you have "Sync selected ringtones" turned on, you first have to go
to your phone under Devices, tab to the Tones tab, check it and then
check the ringtone you created in the list of ringtones before it will
sync to your phone.
10. Just as a tip, I usually rename all my ringtones in the Tones
Library and put a "Custom -" in front of the song title.
This does not rename the actual physical copy on your hard drive, but
this way all your custom ringtones are grouped together when you look
for them on the iPhone.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Shirley Chesson
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:21 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Text alert tones in music folder how to transfer?
I was helping a friend that has a iPhone 4S download what we thought
was text alert tones to her phone, however they all went to her music
folder.
Is
there a way to transfer tones for the music and use them as text alert
tones?
Sent from my iPhone
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