May I amend this? If you use a program such as winamp you can discover what your start and stop points before going into iTunes. *** When you give unto others whether or not they give to you in return, It matters not for your job is Complete and your rewards forthcoming.
----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:45 AM Subject: RE: Seeking Advice on Creating Ring Tones Hi Rose, I believe Fedora's instructions are for the Mac. I am not saying it's easier in Windows, but I posted my instructions quite a few times now and send them directly to a few more people and I believe they were all able to follow them and create ringtones. Yes, there are about 8 or 10 steps involved depending on how I word it and also on how technically experienced somebody is. However, if you do get it to work and do it a few times, it takes little more than a minute or 2 to create a ringtone. The most time is spend on setting the start and end point if you hav a song where you don't want to start at the beginning and simply set the end point to 38 or 40 seconds because if you want to start a few seconds in and stop at a point that makes sense you have to set your start and end point, listen to the selected part of the song, then fine tune your start and end points where you listen each time after you do so. Obviously if you do this 3, 4 or 5 times you can easily spend 3 to 5 minutes doing that. After that it takes another 30 seconds to create the ringtone, rename the file, copy it into your ringtones folder and play it so it gets added to the library. The basic steps are really only that: 1. Select the part of the song you want by setting the start end end point in the Options tab in "Get Info". 2. Right click on the song and select "Create AAC Version. 3. Go to the newly created ringtone, select "Show in Windows Explorer", then rename it so it has an M4R instead of an M4A extension. 4. Now select copy or Move and paste it into the Tones folder which is in the iTunes Media folder. 5. Press enter on it to play it which automatically adds it to your Tones library, then sync it to your phone. If you want my more detailed description just write to me off-list and I'll send it to you. There is a big difference between a process you perceive to be difficult because it involves a lot of small yet relatively simple steps and one that really is difficult. Lastly, there are several apps out there which create the actual ringtone and which are accessible and being used by members of this list. However, you still have to email the ringtone to you or use iTunes file transfer to copy it from your phone into the Tones folder where you can play it and then sync it. Personally I don't necessarily find these apps any easier than using iTunes and really the only thing they don't require you to do is rename the file with the M4R extension. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rose Combs Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Seeking Advice on Creating Ring Tones I wish someone would right a straight forward guide for ring tones, everything I see looks like 20 steps to nowhere. I either buy them, only a couple, or, send them from some package to myself, save the files in my downloads folder, then open and they seem to go where they belong but, I don't think I would ever venture in to how to actually creat one from iTunes. Why something should be so difficult seems strange to me. I just read the Fydora Outlier post and after reading it decided that I will never, ever make a ringtone from scratch. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 7:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Seeking Advice on Creating Ring Tones Hi marcy, While your instructions summarize the basic steps, Bill is not using a Mac and there are a few more steps involved on a PC. Also, if somebody has selected MP3 as their Codec they won't have an option to create an AAC file and would have to first change this. Just saying. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcy Weinberg Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 5:44 AM To: [email protected] Cc: List viPhone Subject: Re: Seeking Advice on Creating Ring Tones Hello, Bill, Visit this link for full instructions on creating ring tones in iTunes: http://www.fedoraoutlier.com/toolbox-create-your-own-ringtones-with-itunes/ Marcy -- Marcy weinberg Junior Partner Fedora Outlier, LLC Top down, BETTER THAN EXCELLENT T consulting, teaching and support website Phone: 888-958-6979 ext.3801 Fax: 888-467-2162 [email protected] Twitter Facebook blog newsletter On Jul 20, 2013, at 2:01 PM, "Bill Gallik" <[email protected]> wrote: Can anybody on this list offer advice on creating ring tones from music that has been downloaded from iTunes? ---------------- Holland's Boy, Bill - "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." - unknown -- but I'm sure any one of a number of us could claim it as our own! ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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