Q: Ringtone
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Aug 30, 2016 8:08 AMby Limnos,Helpfulhttp://osxdaily.com/2010/09/04/make-free-iphone-ringtones-in-itunes-10/
- making a ringtone
Note the location of the "convert" feature has changed in iTunes 12.4 to the main file menu.
Make Ringable v1.1 - http://dougscripts.com/475 - Applescript to make a ringtone
Oct. 2010 Getting ringtones folder to show in iTunes - - iTunes > Preferences. Under the General tab below Show, confirm Ringtones is selected
I can't add m4r files to itunes. - - largely a matter of people not realizing when you add a file to iTunes it puts a copy of the file in the iTunes folder and uses that, not the original file.
How to sync ringtones to your iPhone - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3792 iTunes11 tip:
Ringtones location iTune12 -
To select a ringtone on the iPhone: Device Settings > Sounds > Ringtone
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Aug 30, 2016 8:08 AMby DMacJo,HelpfulHi Limnos,
Thank you for your responce. I have followed all the steps that you suggest and it all goes very well, until I try to import the m4r file into the Tones folder. It does not work. I have tried holding down 'option' as I click and drag, but that doesn't work either. My Tones folder wont allow anything to be put in it! Any idea why?
When I first made the ringtone, it said under 'get info' that it was a ringtone file, but now it has changed from being a 'ringtone' file to being just a 'music' file, and there is no menu option to change it back to a ringtone.
Any suggestions would be great! I have spent hours on this already. How can Apple make this stuff so complicated? It all worked fine before - why change it?
Thanks again!
De
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Aug 30, 2016 8:19 AMby Limnos,Read the part about changing permissions on the iTunes folder in:
LincDavis June 2015 post on correcting permissions on entire user directory -
Note that dragging a media file to an iTunes media folder does not add it to iTunes. iTunes does not search those folders for what is in there, it assumes it knows what is in there because you have added it to the iTunes window or deleted it in the application itself.
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Aug 30, 2016 8:43 AMby Limnos,As I said, you really should not be putting it in the tones folder yourself in Finder. iTunes should be doing all that after you add it to the iTunes application. Again, adding them in Finder will not get them to appear in iTunes. Most people should never be looking inside the iTunes folder in Finder.
I have zero ringtones and I use iTunes 7.5 so I can't experiment with this firsthand, sorry. It may be ringtone management has changed since most of the articles I linked date from 2010.
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Aug 30, 2016 8:50 AMby Limnos,Read: July 2015 - http://www.techradar.com/us/how-to/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/how-to -make-a-ringtone-for-iphone-1299344
Also do a web search for iTunes 12.4 ringtone. There's dozens of videos about this.
