Sieghard, I must say that I agree with you here. Anyhow, moving onto the real reason I'm posting here: I thought that a ringtone could be no longer than 30 seconds. I remember hearing that somewhere, and it just stuck.
Thanks, Ari > On Sep 25, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Buddy, > > I was seriously thinking of just pressing the delete key when I saw your > message, but I'll send some information this time around, but you seriously > need to work on your spelling and writing style. Your messages are truly > horrible to read with a screenreader and a few simple things would > definitely help. > > For one thing, when you say "I" it should be capitalized, you do it > sometimes and sometimes you don't. > You should really do a spell check before sending your message and maybe > read through it before you send it to make sure it makes sense. You often > jump from one thing to another and your message about the ringtone I had to > read 2 or 3 times to understand what you really want. > You say you don't like this update and then that you hate iTunes and then it > goes straight into asking how to make "anmp3" which I deciphered to mean you > want to know how to make "an MP3 ringtone". > Spaces between words really are there for a reason and commas, periods and > the occasional line break or new paragraph make a lot of sense, too. > > OK, below now are instructions about how to make a ringtone from am MP3 > song, I used a song as an example, but any MP3 file would be the same. If > it's already a MP3 ringtone which is less than 40 seconds long then of > course all that about selecting a part of the song for the ringtone is not > relevant and you can skip step 2. > > Making ringtones from a song or MP3 file > > 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. > > 9. 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 buddy liverman > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 6:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: itunes > > I don't realley like this update except for the voices. I hate Itunes, > Okay could someone tell me how to make anmp3 i have of a whistel the > Flintstone Whistle would be a great ringtone what file extention do i > have to convert it to and why can i not just put it in a ringtone > folder jailbreak here i come. thinking about it. thought about trading > my iphone for a Droid but i don't like the Screenreader c't satisfy > some of us. tell me how to put this file in my phone. i tried ringtone > maker, The reason i want to jailbreak my phone is so i can put any file > copy and paste where i want i dislike the propriataryness of it. thanks > Buddy. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > 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. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > 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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