On iTunes I paid for Beatles songs that were labelled as ringtones. I changed the extension to .m4r on a couple but they are too long to be used as ringtones. How do I take a chunk of a song and convert it (shorten it) suitably to be used as a ringtone? I am using a Mac computer.
Ok. I must be really stupid here. All I managed to do was able to get the 30 seconds of the song that I want, made. It automatically save it as .m4a. I drag it onto my iMac and change it to .m4r. I delete the old version and try to drag the new file back into iTunes and it won't drag. It only drags back into it when it's .m4a. I can't find the Tones section and right now, stupid iTunes isn't even finding my iPhone 7 Plus! I would buy the ringtone from iTunes...if they had it available. I've spent a couple of days on this. Can someone please help!
Kelly
I just lost ALL of the downloaded ringtones on my iPhone! I was trying to get rid of a duplicate copy of a song that was already downloaded. When i added the other three and tried to synch it, all the tones got erased from my phone. I'm getting angry now.
iphones are crap compare to Samsungs because you can set the ringtone so easily with the song without bloody using itunes. I think its stupid how you have to do it this way, Apple need to make it more user phone friendly, Samsung is so much easier to use and do it.. it shouldn't be this hard to set a bloody ringtone.
What is the difference between deleting the AAC version from itunes and the finder, or not? The how to convert songs to ring tones info page used to say to delete the file after importing it onto your phone; now it says the opposite. I'm lost!
The idea is that you create a new AAC file with a .m4a file extension that you rename to .m4r. You delete the entry in the library to the newly created file as it will no longer be part of the music library. You should place the renamed file in the Tones folder inside your media folder so you can locate it when you want to drag it to your device. You keep the file you've made so you can add to it to a new or restored device.
I've made a minor tweak to the tip to include a suggestion to move newly created ringtones into the Tones folder.
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this looks pretty helpful. i did steps 1&2, but when i right click on the song, create aac version doesn't show up. so how do i create a new file for it?
Did you stick to the less than 40 second rule? If nothing else works to copy over the file you may need the advice in this post: Re: Unable to sync iTunes purchased music to iphone.
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iTunes 12.7 changes the way ringtones are added to devices.
See Create and manage ringtones in iTunes.
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See Create and manage ringtones in iTunes. In some cases you may need to remove your ringtone files from the device then add them back.
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We should just note I believe a ringtone has to be 30 seconds or less in length.
Yes, that is correct.
Hey Chris
i have been making ringtones for a while through itunes, but recently after i updated, i dont have the option to create an ACC version of the song, i only get create an MP3 version, which does not enable me to add the file to the ringtones folder. Do you know the solution to this problem?
iTunes prefs General tab - Import settings.
Set to AAC.
I used this ringtone trick and it worked for me plenty of times before but now it does not seem to work.
~I selected the options tab
~I clicked start and stop buttons and hit ok
~I created AAC version
~I showed in folder
~I renamed .m4r and dragged it back into iTunes
Usually at this point it'll play under the "Tones" tab on the left, but now it only plays under "Music" and i cant drag it into my iPhone or into "Tones"
I just updated to iOS6. Could this be a problem? I really cant figure it out. It was originally a .wav then i converted to .mp3 since that always worked for me. I used this a lot in the past and now im not sure why it doesnt work. HELP!
i am running on macbook pro 10.8.1 and itunes 10.6.3
How to convert songs to ringtones?
