Thanks Sieghard, these are essentially the instructions I shared. I couldn't imagine losing the capability to create ringtones this way. I'm glad it's still possible.
Sent from Kimber's iPhone On Jun 16, 2013, at 2:14 PM, SiegharWeitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kimber and Shane, > > There is absolutely no change as far as creating ringtones in iTunes. I am > using the latest version of iTunes and just tried it and it took me all of 2 > minutes to create a ringtone, copy it into my Tones folder and sync it to my > phone. In any case, I am not sure why this has to do with Apple > Accessibility since it's a standard iTunes feature. Below is a listing of > the basic steps and I follow this with a more detailed set of instructions I > posted on the list a few times before: > > 1. Find the song you want > 2. Press Control+I for "Get Information", arrow to the options tab, tab to > start and end time and set end time to no more than 40 seconds. > 3. Right click on your song and select "Create AAC Version" > 4. Right click on the newly created 40 second version of the song and select > "Show in Windows Explorer" > 5. Cut the song with Control+X, then go to your Tones or Ringtones folder in > iTunes Media which in turn in in i/tunes which in turn should be in your > Music or My Music folder. > 6. Paste the song with Control+V > 7. Go to the Tools menu of your Windows Explorer window, go to Folder > Options and the View tab, make sure "Hide extensions for known file types" > is Off. > 8. Rename the .M4A extension to M4R. > 9. Press enter on the newly renamed file to play it in iTunes, this > automatically adds it to your Tones library. > 10. Connect your phone, make sure Sync All Tones is selected or if you sync > selected tones, make sure your new ringtone is checked, then sync your > phone. > That's it. > > Below are the more detailed instructions. This is for Windows, not sure what > would be different if you use one of the inferior Mac computers *smile*. > > 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. > > 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. > 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 "Tones" or "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, press Enter on > the song which will start playing your new ringtones in iTunes. This step is > important because by playing it, the tone will automatically be added to > your Tones library. > > 7. 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. > > 8. 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. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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