Hi Sieghar, Thanks for your thorough explanation on how to move files from one source folder to another in iTunes. It was most helpful because I inadvertently uploaded some MP3 files. For those that use JAWS, the shift key only in combination with the right arrow key will select the file. After opening the information dialog box, one may need to whiee-tag once to access the other tabs. I believe one will need to right arrow three times to highlight the option tab. Use the tab key to navigate to make the changes. I thought this clarification would help others. hTH.
Eileen Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2013, at 11:58 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > You can do one of two things: > > First, you can add MP3 books, but as you found out, they will appear in your > music library. If you are only dealing with a few files at a time, you can > select all the files by holding down the shift key and then arrow down the > list. Now press Control+I for "Get Info". iTunes will ask if you want to > modify information for multiple files and you would say Yes. Now arrow to > the Options tab in the multi-tab dialogue that comes up, tab down I think it > is 3 times and you come to a drop-down box called Media Kind. Change this > from Music to Audio Book, tab to OK and press enter or space. iTunes will > now treat the selected files as an audio book, you will hear the triple tone > iTunes makes when it's done doing something and your files will now show up > in the Books library under Audio Books. > > Alternatively, and I find this to be the far better way to do this, is to > get a program like Chapter and Vers from www.LodenSoftware.com. I believe > there is also another one out there called something like MP3 Audio Book > converter, but I am not sure. Anyhow, Chapter and Vers is free and works > well. > What Chapter and Vers does is that it will convert all the MP3 files you > select to M4B which is the iTunes audio book format and then it will merge > all the files into one. You end up with a single Audio Book file, but > whatever length the individual files were before will be preserved as > Chapters and you can use the Previous and Next buttons to jump by those > intervals. If the files are very long and you prefer to have maybe 30 minute > intervals to jump by you can set that as well. > Chapter and Vers uses the iTunes encoder so iTunes will open if you don't > have it open and at the end of the process it will ask you if you want to > add the book to iTunes. > > > Good luck, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Alan Paganelli > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 11:48 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Text alert tones in music folder how to transfer? > > Would you by any chance have the step by step directions on how to change an > audio book in mp3 format to what ever it needs to be so that it will sync to > themy music, iTunes, Media, Books, Audio Books folder? I tried the > automatically add to iTunes and wound up with a few hundred mp3 files > containing my audio book now in my music. I was listening to music and > heard talking. Hey what's this? LOL! So now I have to hunt them all down > and delete them from the music folder. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <siegh...@live.ca> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35 PM > Subject: RE: Text alert tones in music folder how to transfer? > > >> 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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