I don't have a "tones" or "ring tones" folder. I tried creating one and putting the new ringtone in it but itunes didn't recognize it. Can you give a pointer as to what to do?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kimberly Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 4:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Is it still possible to create ringtones in iTunes? 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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