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In its infinite wisdom, Apple removed "Tones" from iTunes.
I now have a ringtone "sitting" in "Music" on iTunes but I cannot find a way of syncing it to "Tones" on my iPhone.
I would greatly appreciate advice as to how I can do this.
iPhone SE
Glad to hear to you've got it working. Given you have a Mac I wonder if the problem was changing the extension of an existing item in the library, which would have left it connected to the library (allowing it to play) which might in turn have meant it was treated as existing item when you tried to add to the device when that method expected to be presented with a unknown item.
tt2
Glad to hear to you've got it working. Given you have a Mac I wonder if the problem was changing the extension of an existing item in the library, which would have left it connected to the library (allowing it to play) which might in turn have meant it was treated as existing item when you tried to add to the device when that method expected to be presented with a unknown item.
tt2
From the linked tip:
Add ringtone to device, iTunes 12.7 or later
* Some Windows users have noted that this method fails if they are running iTunes as the administrator. In some cases it may be necessary to exit the BTTray.exe utility, if present, before iTunes can be launched in non-admin mode.
tt2
Thanks Tuningtest2 for your reply, however, my problem is that I have already created the m4r ringtone which is now in Music on iTunes but I need to know how to put it on my iPhone Tones. Drag n drop dosn't work and I need instructions how to sync it to my phone and thus ringtones.
Sorry, (I have a Mac)
When I dragged & dropped it from finder, it went to music on the phone, not tones.
When I copied and pasted, it also went to music, not tones on the phone
(Curse Apple for deleting Tones from iTunes)
When I copied and pasted, it also went to music, not tones on the phone
Are you certain it is a well formed .m4r file? I.e. less than 40 seconds long file in AAC (.m4a) format with a .m4r file extension. If your Mac is set up to hide file extensions you could potentially have a file with called say file.m4r.mp3 which would show as file.m4r, but be an mp3 file.
tt2
Yes, it is a properly formed m4r file ( AAC m4r format) and my Mac hasn't any hidden file extensions.
I don't Know if this is significant, but I can play the file on iTunes so the basic problem is still how to transfer the file from music to tones on my phone in iTunes no thanks to Apple.
I am a bit of an amateur in computing and I made the file following a Youtube video which could mean as you suggest, it is not well formed although it looks OK. I will find some other instruction to make the file and see how that goes and let you know,
I finally found a way to do it and now have it on my phone as a ringtone.
The steps were: After renaming it as a m4r file, I opened it in finder, highlighted it and copied it, then opened iTunes, connected my phone, clicked on tones in the phone sidebar and clicked paste and there it was - at last.
Thanks for your help and input.
If you're running iTunes 12.7 or later it shouldn't be possible to add a well formed ringtone file to the library and play it in iTunes. I still suspect something isn't quite right.
tt2
Ringtone on my iPhone
