[HellFire]

Originally Posted by 461am

You have to make file extensions visible. Then you manually edit the m4a to m4r.

how do i do that?

[whitewolf81]

..ohh, I figured out my issue! Even though I had 'manually manage music' checked, I still had to go in the ringtones tab and check 'sync ringtones' before doing everything. Works for me now.

Originally Posted by HellFire

how do i do that?

Right click on the file and select Properties. Then you will see the entire file name, including the extension, in the field up top. Then you can change m4a to m4r and click apply.

Or.. if you WANT to have ALL file extensions displayed on every file (which I think is pretty handy), click on My Computer, then up top; Tools > Folder Options. Click on the View tab, and you're going to scroll down in the window to where it says 'Hide extensions for known file types' and UNcheck that and hit apply.

[HellFire]

Originally Posted by whitewolf81

..ohh, I figured out my issue! Even though I had 'manually manage music' checked, I still had to go in the ringtones tab and check 'sync ringtones' before doing everything. Works for me now.



Right click on the file and select Properties. Then you will see the entire file name, including the extension, in the field up top. Then you can change m4a to m4r and click apply.

Or.. if you WANT to have ALL file extensions displayed on every file (which I think is pretty handy), click on My Computer, then up top; Tools > Folder Options. Click on the View tab, and you're going to scroll down in the window to where it says 'Hide extensions for known file types' and UNcheck that and hit apply.

Hey I have Vista...I don't have the same layout

[whitewolf81]

You should still be able to right-click on the file..

[HellFire]

yeah but the file extension doesn't show up in the song's name...

[whitewolf81]

Weelll.. I don't have a machine with Vista on it to dabble with. BUT, it's as easy as typing 'show file extensions in vista' into Google. :P lol

Apparently you click the Layout button (to the left of Views) in any folder window. There you can select Folder Options, then click on the View tab, then uncheck 'Hide extensions for known file types'.

[HellFire]

Good grief...Thank you so much White...I am a such a dumbass for not looking it up on Google...

[futuregyal2010]

Originally Posted by Idontnowhattoput

worked in windows for me too. Some info for peeps with windows you need to change your folder options to see the file extention so you can remame it to .m4r and then after you delete it from your itunes just double click it and your ready

how can you change the file type...well on a windows vista.
i need to reset my settings to beable to change file types...any idea how?

[resistxgb]

Thank you, it worked like a charm!!

[whitewolf81]

Originally Posted by futuregyal2010

how can you change the file type...well on a windows vista.
i need to reset my settings to beable to change file types...any idea how?

Look up a few posts.. I just talked about it.

[trinity32]

Hello to all! this is my first post!!!

Im loving it! i did it!! Thanks to you guys!! making ringtone now is never a problem now!
Yeppe!!!


next step... how to make it to a message ringtone? anybody?

[Casetay]

Apple always figures out how to change stuff so we can't get it free... iTunes 8 has no convert to AAC

[461am]

sigh.. it's still there, it's just called 'create aac version' now.

[jakkzen]

It all works in iTunes 8. People who are having issues need to make sure it's 30 second or less. Otherwise it will not show up on your iPhone.

[Grubbi1149]

In my iTunes (8.0.1.11) I don't have "create an AAC version" only create MP3 version. Any ideas?
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