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Downloading Ringtones ???

I know this is a stupid question but how are you supposed to download music ring tones now ? In an older version of i-tunes there would be a little bell symbol next to some of the music I purchased that would allow you to create a ring tone. Now that feature does not exist in i-tunes. I tried going to the AT&T site and it says that you cannot download ring tones for the i-phone on their site either and there is nothing I could find in the App store. Can someone please tell me how to download music ring

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Jan 16, 2011 2:32 PM

30 replies

Jan 16, 2011 4:47 PM in response to cls24

Now that i have made the ringtone in itunes 10 how do i get it into the ringtones section? It's in the Music library now.

Jan 16, 2011 5:03 PM in response to Gary Yonts

Does it have to be in the ringtone section?

cls24

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Jan 16, 2011 5:16 PM in response to Gary Yonts

Double click on it to play and it will move into the ringtone section.

Jan 16, 2011 5:28 PM in response to cls24

From the music library in itunes?

cls24

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Jan 16, 2011 5:30 PM in response to Gary Yonts

Yes, correct, if you play a ringtone with a MR4 extension it will populate automatically in the Ringtone Directory on iTunes and when you sync it should be on your iPhone.

Jan 16, 2011 6:17 PM in response to cls24

I double click on it to play it but it but it just went into the music folder under Library.

Jan 16, 2011 6:40 PM in response to Gary Yonts

I can't get it to go into my Ringtones folder.

cls24

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Jan 16, 2011 6:58 PM in response to Gary Yonts

Then the extension must not be a MR4 as required to become a ringtone.

Google "Convert M4A to MR4"

Jan 16, 2011 7:41 PM in response to cls24

I do a get info on the file and it says it's a .m4r file.

cls24

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Jan 16, 2011 8:04 PM in response to Gary Yonts

And when you play it on iTunes and then look in the Ringtones folder on itunes there is nothing there?

Jan 16, 2011 8:20 PM in response to Johcoa

All I do is long press any song or sound on my phone and hit "set as ring tone".

Or I hit "trim for ringtone" in wich case two slider bars come up that let me set the start and stop point.

This is on an android phone, are you saying you can not do this on iphone? Have you tried?

I find it hard to believe it would be this difficult to take a song already on your phone and set it as ringtone.

Where did you get the song? Is it protected or something, I use an app called music wizard, it lets you type any song or band in and I can download or play the songs right to my phone from it.

I set these as ringtones all the time, tryMusic Wizard, I know their songs work and their all free.

cls24

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Jan 16, 2011 8:31 PM in response to newIpadOwner

Songs are MP3's and are longer than 30-seconds and cannot be used in that format for a ringtone. They need to be 25-35 seconds and converted to MR4 files.

Nov 6, 2014 8:44 PM in response to Gary Yonts

I spent half a day yesterday sorting this out but finally a post on one of the other forums solved it...

Yes it must be an mR4 file but I had the same problem - no way to make it move from the Music library into the ringtone library.

Apparently the problem is that once a file is in a folder, iTunes doesn't go back again to check the extension. You need to move the original file out of the music folder to, say, the desktop. Then put it back in the iTunes library and it should check its file type because now its a new file and put it in the Ringtones folder. Then make sure the new ringtone is selected and sync. This is what worked for me (finally).

PS: I used Audiko Pro to create the two ringtone files - one worked simply and automatically, the other was a nightmare. When I backed up from my iPhone 5 to iPhone 6, the first one transferred automatically, the second had a mind of its own.

roaminggnome

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Nov 6, 2014 8:57 PM in response to gibbons12345

Odd.

FYI, this post is almost 4 years old.

Nov 6, 2014 9:02 PM in response to roaminggnome

Haha, yes, I noticed that just after I hit the Reply button. Interesting however that I landed there because the problem persists. I just found the current thread with all the same questions about iPhone 6s - have re-posted there in case it can save somebody some grief. Hope that the person in asked the question in 2011 is not still trying.

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