iTunes won't import an M4R file

Hi everyone.

Same issue here and the solution was a simple CTRL C CTRL V in the tones folder!!!! That's it. I counldn't drag and drop but i could copy and paste! Try it I hope it will help you guys too.

Atish

I have the same issue, no matter what i do is not working.

I'm wondering what the Apple support communities does, where are the solution to this, 3 hour I'm trying to sett a simple Ringtone on my iPhone and I can't. Please Apple Provide some Help! Thank you.

This is a user to user support forum. You need to describe your problem clearly for best results. A valid ringtone file is one that is an AAC audio file, less than 40 seconds long, and with a .m4r file extension. Once the file has been generated it needs to be added to iTunes. The easiest way to do that is to move or copy it into <Media Folder>\Automatically Add to iTunes. The tones section of the library may need to be revealed in iTunes, since it is normally hidden by default. Click the media selection tool near the top left of iTunes, then Edit Menu, tick Tones, and then Done. Select Tones from the media selector. Your added tone should be visible here. Connect your device. Select it from the icon to the right of the media selector. Select the device's Tones tab. Enable Sync Tones. Sync. On the device go to Settings > Sounds or edit a contact to make use of the ringtone.

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The trick I used, inspired from this post, is the following :

- open the m4r file into Apple QuickTime Player

- from within the App, use the menu to send/export directly to iTunes

- in iTunes, the rintone should now appear in the "tones" section.

This did the trick for me. On a Mac.

You have to delete the original m4a file(30 to 40secs duration) you created for ringtone (not the original music file) from your music library in order for iTunes to accept your m4r file and put it in your Tones library.

Otherwise iTunes will assume the file is already in the library.

Great!

k3vb8ll wrote:

then copied M4R version to my tones folder

Do not mess with anything inside the iTunes folder.

Let iTunes handle it all. When you add anything to iTunes, iTunes will copy it to the /Music/iTunes/iTunes media/ folder.

k3vb8ll wrote:

then copied M4R version to my tones folder

You mean you copied this to Tones at top left of iTunes under Library, correct?

You did not copy it into /Music/iTunes/iTunes/ media/Tones/ yourself.

Hi,

I have the same problem: itunes won't open the m4r file. But this solution didn't fix it for me! I also, for whatever reason, don't have a ringtones folder in the library and don't know how to make one short of itunes making it when it gets an m4r file, which it won't because it won't open it! Help!!

Hello All,

I'm in the same boat as Kev at the top of the page.

I have iTunes on windows 7, have copied the ACC file onto my desktop, changed it from .m4a to .m4r and when trying to drop it into my tones folder, it goes straight into music....

Same with when I double click on it from the desktop.

So frustrating!!!

Adore any input!

XX Nerina

Hi there! I've been having the same problem since I downloaded the latest version of iTunes (11.3.1). I've always been able to create ringtones using the same method that everyone has been describing: create a 30 second AAC version of the song, delete the original, rename the extension, import the m4r file. However, I had no such luck when I tried doing so today. I found a way around the new version of the application, but it's pretty lengthy. Someone might be able to find a shorter way, but this is what worked for me:

1. Create a 30 second or less mp3 version (since there's no longer the option to create an AAC file)
2. Show in finder
3. Delete the mp3 from iTunes library (keep the file, do not move to trash)
4. Open the mp3 with QuickTime Player
5. Export the mp3 to iTunes (somehow this converts the file to an AAC version)
6. Show in finder
7. Delete the AAC version from iTunes (keep the file, do not move to trash)
8. Change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r
9. Import the .m4r file, and it should appear in the Tones section of your iTunes

Hope this helps! 🙂

thanks, I had to close iTunes and reload iTunes to get it to work.