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Chris · 1 year ago

Wow! Thanks so much, worked like a charm!!!!!!!!

Brandon · 1 year ago

@Chris: You're quite welcome; come back for some more iPhone 3G tips soon!

Bennett · 1 year ago

Hello. This posting is awesome and I really appreciate it. I just have a small problem, I can't seem to change the file from a m4a to a m4r by just renaming it. This results that I open the new file from my desktop and it just opens in itunes, not under ringtones. Any help please??

Brandon · 1 year ago

@Bennett:

It may not be mentioned in the posted tutorial, nor may it be the case, but I had always assumed that it was only for Mac OS X. I had never even thought about whether it was a general tutorial and, therefore, am not sure whether it works on Windows. Are you using Windows? Because if you are using Mac OS X, you should have no problem renaming the file to an .m4r file (single-click on the file, and push COMMAND-I for "get info" and then just change the extension). Let me know if I can help further, and I am sorry for the confusion. Thanks for reading!

Brandon · 1 year ago

@Anonymous: Are you using Mac OS X?

"K" · 1 year ago

It worked immaculately. Thanks a lot!

Jasmine · 1 year ago

DUDE THANKS [;

rob · 1 year ago

Somehow after I converted it to AAC, i can't find the converted version below it. I just click the original mp3, where i adjusted the playing time, and click "show finder" and change the name to m3r, drag it out to desktop. But it doesn't work. How come the converted AAC don't show up? thanks.

Gregory Salvatore Zucco · 1 year ago

Hey man, where is the "ringtones" section of my itunes? For whatever reason, I'm not seeing it

Brandon · 1 year ago

@Gregory Salvatore Zucco: It should be on the left side, under "Library. For me it's the last choice under library.

Jay · 1 year ago

HAHAHAHAHAH It worked, Thank you very much!!!!

Peace

~k · 1 year ago

I can't find the "convert to aac" option...I see create mp3, but no aac option. I went to "preference", but nothing popped out that would allow me to select aac as an option....is it because I'm working with iPhone 2.1 and iTunes 8.0.1.11???

Thanks!

Brandon · 1 year ago

@~k: Most likely, no, actually. Go over to "Get Info" on the song of choice (right-click usually) and see what type of file the song currently is; in all likelihood that song is ALREADY an aac file, in which case, of course, you can skip the entire convert to AAC part of the process! Let me know if it still doesn't work, and we'll go from there, but I think you should have success with the above solution. Thanks for reading!

Rossi · 1 year ago

Hiya - this seems brilliant but it wont let me convert the file to .m4r... it lets me change the name but stays as an mp4 file so it opens in the itunes library not ringtones. I have windows xp - would this be why?
thanks!!

Brandon · 1 year ago

@Rossi:

The fact that you have Windows XP may be the problem; I only know this process to work for Mac's. That being said, I don't know why it wouldn't work for XP. Just to clarify: you don't actually convert the file to an .m4r file, you convert it from an .mp3 file to an .aac file (note: if it is already an .aac file, you skip this step), which, at least on a Mac, is actually an .m4a file. Then, rather than convert the file to an .m4r (so that it opens in the Ringtone section rather than the library), again, at least on a Mac, you just rename the file from, say, "Song.m4a" to "Song.m4r." Then when you double-click on it or open it, it should be in the Ringtones section. I'm sorry if this doesn't work on Windows XP but am curious, so please let me know if I was any help or if I can help you any further. Thanks for reading!

Sophia · 1 year ago

Works like a charm on XP, too!
Really really appreciate this. Thanks!

Brandon · 1 year ago

You're very welcome; thanks for stopping by!

julio · 11 months ago

this works really well, my only with it was that it was not going straight to my desktop, so all that needed to be done was to drag it from the finder folder out to the desktop, after i figured that out everything worked wonderful. Thanks!

Johnny · 3 months ago

AWEEEESOME!!!!!

Worked perfectly on my 3GS


I love you lol