Step by Step Ringtone Hack for 7.4.1 and 7.4.1 (2)

[brianlamar]

Thought this may be useful to you all. I posted this in another thread but I suspected people who read that may not have problems with wanting ringtones.



Lets say you want only a clip of a song already in your library, Select the song you want to tweak in the library.

1. Go to "File" and "Get Info"

2. Click on the options tab

3. Find the part of the song you want the ringtone to start and end using seconds only. (make sure you put the seconds in precisely or they can mess up... ex, 3:25.04 or so on.... not 3.25.04)

4. Make sure you have a start and end of the song to convert to a ringtone.

5. Click ok

6. Click on advanced and convert song to MP3 or AAC whichever you use.

It will only convert the song for the seconds that you set the song for under the options tab. Now you can go back and deselect start and end time under the options menu for the original song.

7. Now we have to find the song so we can rename it. Make sure your Mac is set to "Show File Extensions" If you don't know if it is...... Make finder active.

1. Click on the Finder menu bar.

2. Click on Preferences/Advanced

3. Select show all file extensions.


8. Make sure your song is still selected in itunes, Click on file and "Show In Finder"

9. Go back to iTunes and delete the file from the library that you created but make sure you select "Keep Files"

10. Now rename the file you created in the finder window to ".m4r"

11. Double click to open. It might play on itunes and it might not, it will just make itunes the active screen. Either way its in itunes.

12. Now the file has moved to the ringtones folder in itunes. You must now find it again and rename it to ".m4a" so it will play on the iPhone.

13. Sync and be happy.....


This is for iTunes 7.4.1 and 7.4.1 (2)

[iAlex]

Originally Posted by brianlamar

Thought this may be useful to you all. I posted this in another thread but I suspected people who read that may not have problems with wanting ringtones.



Lets say you want only a clip of a song already in your library, Select the song you want to tweak in the library.

1. Go to "File" and "Get Info"

2. Click on the options tab

3. Find the part of the song you want the ringtone to start and end using seconds only. (make sure you put the seconds in precisely or they can mess up... ex, 3:25.04 or so on.... not 3.25.04)

4. Make sure you have a start and end of the song to convert to a ringtone.

5. Click ok

6. Click on advanced and convert song to MP3 or AAC whichever you use.

It will only convert the song for the seconds that you set the song for under the options tab. Now you can go back and deselect start and end time under the options menu for the original song.

7. Now we have to find the song so we can rename it. Make sure your Mac is set to "Show File Extensions" If you don't know if it is...... Make finder active.

1. Click on the Finder menu bar.

2. Click on Preferences/Advanced

3. Select show all file extensions.


8. Make sure your song is still selected in itunes, Click on file and "Show In Finder"

9. Go back to iTunes and delete the file from the library that you created but make sure you select "Keep Files"

10. Now rename the file you created in the finder window to ".m4r"

11. Double click to open. It might play on itunes and it might not, it will just make itunes the active screen. Either way its in itunes.

12. Now the file has moved to the ringtones folder in itunes. You must now find it again and rename it to ".m4a" so it will play on the iPhone.

13. Sync and be happy.....


This is for iTunes 7.4.1 and 7.4.1 (2)

i got it all the way to import to itunes library but it never moved into the ringtones tab!

[brianlamar]

Originally Posted by iAlex

i got it all the way to import to itunes library but it never moved into the ringtones tab!

did you delete the version you edited from itunes first?

[akophone]

Didn't work for me neither. After changing the extension to ".m4r", clicked it and iTunes opened but did not appear in the Ringtones folder. In Finder, the name reverted back but without an extension. Getting info reveals that it went back to .mp3.
Just testing. Failed. But I'll keep iToner for now. Thanks for the guide.

[Hondamaker]

Works for me...shows up in the ringtones folder and in the ringtones tab in itunes, but never on my phone!!

[spyrwebs]

it works. I tried it. You just have to follow eveystep exactly.

[Hondamaker]

Originally Posted by spyrwebs

it works. I tried it. You just have to follow eveystep exactly.

I have followed every step of every tutorial on how to make the ringtones, to no avail.

[brianlamar]

Originally Posted by akophone

Didn't work for me neither. After changing the extension to ".m4r", clicked it and iTunes opened but did not appear in the Ringtones folder. In Finder, the name reverted back but without an extension. Getting info reveals that it went back to .mp3.
Just testing. Failed. But I'll keep iToner for now. Thanks for the guide.

The file did not revert. The file you changed the extension moved to the ringtones folder in itunes. You are looking at the original file that you changed from mp3 to m4r.

[brianlamar]

Remember the file you name m4r automatically moved to a ringtones folder in the itunes folder under "music". you have to change the name in that folder to m4a.

If you go back to the folder that the file "was" in you will see the original file and get confused. The edited file is no longer in the original folder

[spyrwebs]

Originally Posted by brianlamar

Remember the file you name m4r automatically moved to a ringtones folder in the itunes folder under "music". you have to change the name in that folder to m4a.

If you go back to the folder that the file "was" in you will see the original file and get confused. The edited file is no longer in the original folder

Yea that is correct. I think people are looking at the original mp3 file but the ringtone file was automaticaly moved by itunes to user>iTunes>iTunes music>ringtones