Shawnese, I'm not sure if you got any instructions on making ringtones at all, so I will post this. Creating Ringtones With iTunes
First things first. Make sure "Hide extensions for known file types" is off. To do this: Go to Windows Explorer with Windows+E. Go to the Tools menu with Alt+T. Arrow to Folder Options and press enter. You are now in a multi-page dialog box. Control+tab to the View tab. make sure "Hide extensions for known file types" is Off. 1. Find the song you want to make into a ringtone in your Music tab in iTunes. 2. Ctrl+I to select "Get Info." 3. Press the spacebar on "Options" tab, tab down to the "Start Time" checkbox. 4. Tab again to the edit field and route JAWS to PC with Insert+minus. Then do a left-click with the numpad slash. This will give you the edit field you need to specify the Start Time. 5. Do not press enter. Just Tab past the stop time checkbox to the "Stop Time" edit field 6. By default the stop time is the total length of the song. As with start time, , route Jaws cursor to PC cursor, then left click. You are now in the edit field and the cursor is at the end of the time, you can left arrow across it or simply delete it all and type in your 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. 7. After you enter your stop time you want to press the OK button so you can play the song and listen to how your segment sounds. Instead of tabbing about 12 times to get to the OK button, you can now just press Enter and if you press Enter a second time it will take you back to your song listing and if you press enter a third time the song will play. Only the part of the song you selected will play and you can see if it sounds good the way it is. If it stops in the middle of a note or word, you can make it a few seconds shorter to find a better place. 8. Once you have the ringtone the way you like it, hit the Applications key; arrow down to "Create AAC Version," and press Enter. 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. 9. 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. 10. Select the newly created short AAC version of the song in iTunes and press CTRL+C to "copy." Open your iTunes folder (most likely in "My Music", go to the "iTunes Media" folder and the "Tones" or "Ringtones" folder. If this folder has not been created, then make a new Tones folder. Press Control+V to paste the song into the Ringtones folder. 11. 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. 12. After you have renamed the song with the .M4R extention, press Enter on the song which will start playing your new ringtone in iTunes. This step is important because by playing it, the tone will automatically be added to your Tones library. 13. Now Sync your iPhone with iTunes and your new ringtone will be available. 14. 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. It's a little involved, but once you've done it a few times, it really is easy. It's good seeing you on-list *smile*, and I hope this helps. Call me if you need more help! Sharonda On 12/12/14, Jessica D <jldai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes. I have a listen to that podcast. That starts from the very beginning. I > know how to use iTunes but iTunes 12 is more complicated. They took the > sidebar our way. I kind of need that. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 12, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Christopher Hallsworth >> <challswor...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I think I may check these out. I'm struggling to work out how to manually >> manage music in iTunes 12. It is done on a mac but similar procedures >> should apply under Windows too. >> >>> On 12/12/2014 14:58, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: >>> Hi Jessica, >>> >>> >>> >>> Have you ever listened to Jonathan Mosen's FS Cast about iTunes 11? I >>> know that in iTunes 12 some things changed, but there are a lot of >>> concepts and other things where the Podcast would still apply and maybe >>> give you a better understanding about iTunes. I think iTunes must be the >>> singlemost hated piece of software out there and for the most part this >>> is because of people's perception that it's inaccessible which maybe it >>> was at one point many many years ago. Right now iTunes is actually very >>> accessible with a few kwirks and for the most part the tab key and F6 are >>> keys to remember and use a lot and of course you have your shortcuts to >>> get to the different libraries like music, movies, TV shows, apps and so >>> on. These are Control key Plus you rnumber keys in the top row of the >>> keyboard. >>> >>> >>> >>> As for your question, what you may want to try is use the column browser. >>> This will display 3 listviews, Genre, Artist and Album. For example, I >>> have a bit over 4,000 songs in iTunes. When I open iTunes it always lands >>> on the Genre column which in my case has 19 genres, but Jaws will say 1 >>> of 20 when I am at the top because in each column you have an "All" entry >>> at the top. If I tab once I get to my second column listview which has >>> 211 artists, but there are 213 entries because of "All" and >>> "Compilations" which show up at the top. A second tab takes me to the >>> albums column which for my library has 362 albums and again the "All" on >>> the top. A third tab now puts me on the list view of all my music which >>> if I put focus on "All" in each column has 4117 entries and Jaws will >>> read out the first song, artist, album and length and say it is 1 of >>> 4117. >>> >>> If I select a particular artist in the artist column, for example if I >>> type in "e a" to go to "Eagles" and then tab twice to get to my music >>> listview, Jaws will read out the first song like this: >>> >>> >>> >>> Hotel California, Time 6:29, Eagles, Album: Eagles, Greatest Hits Vol2, >>> Genre Rock, Track number 1 of 10 >>> >>> >>> >>> This is then followed by Jaws saying "1 of 36" which means in total I >>> have 36 tracks by the Eagles. >>> >>> >>> >>> Now, what you want to do to get this is as follows: >>> >>> >>> >>> 1. Open iTunes (I am assuming you use a PC/Windows) >>> >>> 2. Type Control+F to get to the search field >>> >>> 3. Now tab twice and you should be on a radio button for "Music" >>> which I assume is checked. If it isn't, use the shortcut key Control+1 >>> (in the number row above the keyboard) to put focus on the music library >>> >>> 4. Tab past all the rest of the radio buttons. I can't remember >>> what the default is since you can customize which buttons you have >>> showing up here, e.g. Movies, TV Shows, Apps, Tones etc. >>> >>> 5. After a few tabs you should get to a "More" button and if you >>> tab past it you will find 3 more radio buttons, My Music, Playlists and >>> iTunes Store, make sure "My Music" is checked. >>> >>> 6. If you tab past iTunes Store you'll find the button for your >>> device if it is connected. If it is not connected you should hear one of >>> the following: Songs, albums, artists, composers, or Genres. This is the >>> important button because only if you select songs from this list (use >>> spacebar to activate the button, then tab once and you can arrow up and >>> down in the list) can you enable the column browser. >>> >>> 7. Make sure you are on Songs and press enter, the button should >>> now say :"Songs button". >>> >>> 8. Now enable the column browser either by going to the View menu >>> and arrow down to Column Browser (shortcut is "c") or you can simply use >>> the shortcut key Control+Shift+B for "Show Column Browser". This is >>> actually a toggle and if you press it again it will again hide the column >>> browser. >>> >>> 9. You can also make a few selections as to what is shown in the >>> column browser, below is the entire menu and I said beside each item if I >>> have it selected or not: >>> >>> Genres - checked >>> >>> Artists - checked >>> >>> Albums - checked >>> >>> Composers - not checked >>> >>> Groupings - not checked (not totally sure what this does) >>> >>> Group compilations - checked >>> >>> Use album artist - checked >>> >>> >>> >>> That's it, once you set this up it will always be there and your main >>> music list view will always be a listview. By the way, by default if you >>> type in that listview it will go to artist. For example, if I type "SH" >>> it will take me straight to the first song I have by Shania Twain. >>> >>> >>> >>> I always land on the Genre column if I open iTunes as long as I was in >>> the music library when I closed it. If I was in Apps, then of course it >>> will reopen to that library. But what I meant to say is that if I want to >>> do something to my phone, all I have to do is connect my phone, then open >>> iTunes and since I am on the genre column, I just shift tab 5 times to >>> get to the device button. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Sieghard >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the viphone >> list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you >> have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you >> feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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