Can't set a song/ sound as a ringtone.

I've done everything the website tells me too and the mp3's just won't show up on my phone.
All of them are well under 40 seconds, under 1 MB and none of them should be DRM protected.
Not sure if anyone has got anything else for me to try to get them to work? I'm not sure if being on a Mac has anything to do with it or what but it's pretty frustrating.

Hi Garym11, this may not help your problem immediately, but I would if I could like to make a point about this topic.
On my previous 2 nokia phones (an E7 and before that the 9500 communicator, both running symbian), I could set whole MP3's as ringtones or message alerts, and as long as the person the other end was ringing, or in the case of  txt, as long as I didn't read it, the whole song would play!
Obviously if I answered then the song would stop as expected. This was great becasue for example, if you set your missed call alerts to on, and you are filling up with fuel, by the time you get back to your vehicle, you'd catch the end of the song, so you would know you had a message!
When you chose "ringtone" (or whatever the terminology was then) you could select a full mp3 from the music folder.
I set all my ring tones , text alerts and email alerts to full songs, and it worked brilliantly. For the life of me, I don't know why Nokia didn''t keep this feature with the Windows phones....

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