Converting your MUSIC to a RINGTONE 'without GOOGLE help'

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Took me a while to work this out and after much hair pulling and ‘without’ the help of Google or a 3rd party program see below.
Good luck:-
• Open I Tunes
• Find the song you want as a ringtone
• Double Click the song to play it and make a note of the start time where you want the ringtone to start. The counter is shown at the top of I Tunes in the centre just to the left.
• Stop the song
• Right click on the song and click ‘Get Info’
• Click on ‘Options’ Tab
• In the drop down, put the start time in the ‘Start Time’ box
• Put the stop time in the ‘Stop Time’ box. Stop time must be no more than 30 seconds after the start time otherwise ITunes will not see it. i.e. start 0:10 stop 0:40, start 0:12 stop 0:42 and so on
• Click ‘Ok’
• Right click on the song again
• Left Click on ‘Create AAC Version’ this will create a second version with a time of only 30 seconds.
• On the original song you first clicked right click on the song and click ‘Get Info’
• Click on ‘Options’ Tab
• Remove the tick from the ‘Start Time’/Stop Time box.
• Click ok. This is important as if you don’t every time you play that song it will only play the 30 seconds you have chosen. Sort of resets the counter and tidy ups I Tunes.
• Now on the song that was created (the 30 second time song) right click on it and click ‘show in windows explorer’
• This will open the location in windows explorer where the track is stored and highlight it for you. (leave it ITunes open)
• The song should say its name then just after it in the same box .m4a
• If there is no .m4a on the end of the song name, no problem. At the top of the windows explorer windows box where it says file, edit, view, favourites etc click ‘Tools’. A list will drop down then click ‘Folder Options’ This will open a window. Click the ‘View’ Tab. This will show a load of boxes with ticks in. Un-tick the box that says ’Hide Extensions For Known File Types’. Click ‘Apply’ then ‘Ok’ you should now see the .m4a at the end of the song name.
If you have any issues doing the above, i.e. if you have Windows Vista I downloaded a foc for 45 days program that edits file types.
• Right click on the song then change the .m4a to an .m4r. i.e. just change the a to an r This will change the file ‘Type’ from ‘m4a File’ to ‘Ringtone’
• Leave the windows explorer window open.
• Go back into I tunes and close it.
• In the windows explorer window that was left open double click the ringtone you created. This should now open I Tunes and start playing the song. Be patient as sometimes it takes a minute or so.
• In the list on the left in I Tunes will be a file called ‘Ringtones’ with a bell to the left of it. Click this file. This will open the ringtones file. In there will be the ring tone you created.
• Now in the list on the left in I Tunes click ‘Music’ then find the original song you copied originally in the list. You will find that there are two. One of full song length and the other of 30 second length. The 30 second one will have right on the left a ! Symbol. It you double click on the song it will say it can’t find it. DO NOT click locate. Click cancel otherwise it will go off and hunt for it.
• Right click on the song with the ! Symbol by it then click delete. This will delete it. Don’t worry this is just to tidy up your I Tunes and will not delete the song as its only a path to the song that is no longer there. The song is now a ringtone and found through the ringtones file.
• Now last but not least plug in your phone and sync it. Once done the ringtone will appear in the ‘settings’, ‘sounds’, ‘ringtone’ section.

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