Hi Shirley,
If you downloaded tones that show up in the music folder they are most
likely in MP3 format.
In order to use them on an iPhone you first have to convert them into M4A
which is the iTunes music, then rename the file extension from M4A to M4R
which hwill tell iTunes and your iPhone that the audio file is not a song
but should be used as a tone to be used as a ringtone, text tone or alarm
sound, .
You also have to make sure the tone is not longer than 40 seconds.
Below are instructions I typed up some time ago and which describe how you
can use iTunes to make a ringtone from any song you have. You can use
these
instructions, I changed them so you know which step to skip:
Creating Ringtones from songs using iTune for Windows:
1. Find the song you want to make into a ringtone in your Music tab in
iTunes. In your case find the tone you downloaded and which is now in your
music library. Skip step 2 and continue on with step 3.
2. Right click and select "Get Info". Go to the "Options" tab, tab down to
"Start Time" and check it by pressing the space bar. Tab again and specify
the Start Time.
usually you start at the beginning of the song, i.e. 0:00, but if the song
starts very slow you may want to find a good spot a few seconds from the
beginning where you start the ringtone.
tab one more time to go to "Stop Time", check it also and tab to the edit
field, specify the Stop Time. This will ensure that iTunes will play the
song starting from the specified Start Time to the Stop Time.
Make sure that the stop time doesn't exceed the start time by more than 40
seconds which is the maximum length of a ringtone.
Click OK.
Press enter to play the song, it will only play the part of the song you
selected and you can see if it sounds good where it starts and stops.
If it stops in the middle of a note or word you can make it a few seconds
shorter to find a better place.
I usually set the stop time to 39 or 40 seconds and then make it shorter
to
make it sound good.
The start time is displayed as 0:00 where the first 0 means 0 minutes,
then
a ":" and then the 00 after that is for the seconds.
The stop time by default has the ending time of the song, for example
3:23.46 where the first 3 is the number of minutes, then the ":", then the
next 2 digits are the seconds and then a "." and the last number or
numbers
is I guess maybe in one tenth of a second or even one hundreds, not quite
sure, but it's a very small increment.
Note:
Instead of right clicking on the song you can also use the Windows
Application Key (some call it the Context menu Key, it's on the right side
of the space bar next to the Control key). Even easier is to use the
keyboard shortcut "Control+I" and this should work in Windows XP as well
as
Windows 7.
3. Right click, press the Context Menu Key or press Control+I when you are
on the selected song and select "Creat AAC Version from the context menu.
Almost immediately you will hear that tri-tone iTunes makes when it's
finished doing something.
This will create an AAC version of the song for only the section of the
song
you specified.
This new short song will appear right underneath the original song in your
list of songs, so you just have to down arrow once to find it.
Press enter to play it and to make sure it is as you want it.
In your case this will create an AAC version of your MP3 tone. You can
skip
the next line, but read the "Note" following.
you can now go back to the original and, in the Options Tab, uncheck the
start and stop times so that it will play normally again.
Note:
If you don't see a "Create AAC Version option when you right click on the
song, go to "Edit", "Preferences" and in the General tab click on Import
settings, the shortcut is Alt+O.
Make sure that the AAC encoder settings are selected, if MP3 is selected
as
the encoder you have to change it to AAC.
I also suggest you check this anyways and make sure you have "iTunes Plus"
selected for the quality to make sure you create a good quality ringtone.
4. Select the newly created short AAC version of the song in iTunes and
press CTRL+C for "copy". Open your iTunes folder (most likely in "My
Music",
go to the "iTunes Media" folder and the "Ringtones" folder. Press
Control+V
to paste the song into the Ringtones folder.
5. Right click on the file and select rename or press the shortcut which
is
F2. Change the extention for the file which will be .M4A to .M4R. Confirm
that you want to rename the file.
Note:
If you press F2 and don't see the extention, go to "Tools" and "Folder
Option". On the "View Tab" turn off "Hide Extentions for known file
types".
You can turn it back on after you are done creating your ringtones.
6. After you have renamed the song with the .M4R extention, once again
press
"Control+C" to copy the song to your clipboard.
7. Close the Ringtones Folder and go back to iTunes. Go to the "Tones
Library" in the source list and tab once to get into the list of
ringtones.
Press "Control+V" to paste your new ringtone into your list of available
ringtones.
8. Go back to the Music Library, find the short version of the song you
created and press delete, when prompted select "Move to recycle bin".
This is OK because you already moved the ringtone to the Ringtones folder
and no longer need this copy of it.
9. Sync your iPhone with iTunes and your new ringtone will be available.
Note:
If you have "Sync selected ringtones" turned on, you first have to go to
your phone under Devices, tab to the Tones tab, check it and then check
the
ringtone you created in the list of ringtones before it will sync to your
phone.
10. Just as a tip, I usually rename all my ringtones in the Tones Library
and put a "Custom -" in front of the song title.
This does not rename the actual physical copy on your hard drive, but this
way all your custom ringtones are grouped together when you look for them
on
the iPhone.
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Shirley Chesson
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:21 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Text alert tones in music folder how to transfer?
I was helping a friend that has a iPhone 4S download what we thought was
text alert tones to her phone, however they all went to her music folder.
Is
there a way to transfer tones for the music and use them as text alert
tones?
Sent from my iPhone
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