.m4r help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ringtones

I live in the UK and plan to buy an iphone over the next week i just want to know how to convert a file's extension to .m4r????????????
help plz

Since you are running Windows...here is what you need to do to change this or any other extension.
1. Within your folder options, make sure you have show known extensions checked or hide known extension unchecked...can't remember which it is, but basically you want to be able to see a file's extention.
2) Single click the file that needs it's extension changed
3) Hit F2 - this edits the files name
4) Hit <End> - this quickly takes your cursor to the last char of the extension
5) Hit backspace but do not delete the "."
6) type in your new extension
7) Hit <enter>
8) You will likely get a warning about changing the extension. Click OK
You are done.
You made mention of not knowing how to convert an MPEG into an M4R. I'm not sure if this was a typo or not, but an MPEG file is video and an M4R is audio..so they really aren't the same thing.
As for whether Apple supports this technique or not. I have no idea. I am hopeful that Apple realized that preventing people from using sounds they created in Garageband or elsewhere as their own personal ringtones was a losing proposition and contra to their very Brand as a supporter of things creative.

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If you can download your old phone ringtone to computer, and assuming it's mp3 format. Below is the brief steps:
1. import .mp3 to computer iTunes
2. convert the ringtone to .m4a using computer iTunes
3. rename .m4a to .m4r
4 import .m4r back to iTunes
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Hi,
These Links may be Helpful:
Ringtones FAQs
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1491
Create and Buy Ringtones
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1693

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I have an iPod touch 8 GB Version 3.1.3
In my iTunes I do not want to sync new songs I add to the library.
I deleted the iTunes on your computer from anywhere possible and then reinstall it but still it does not synchronize my new songs I add to the library.
What should I do and how I fix this problem?
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For music files purchased via the iTunes Store, Apple has used the following file extensions -
.m4a unprotected AAC format music files
.m4p protected AAC format music files
.m4b protected Audio Books
.m4r unprotected ringtones in AAC format
As you can see Apple have never used .mp4 for music files via the iTunes Store.
For videos Apple use .m4v and these are in H.264 format.
You could try changing the file extension to .m4a, first then see if it plays on your computer and then try re-synching it.

Yesterday i made some purchases in itunestore. the download went well. till the synch of itunes with ipod. some of the downloaded music did noch synchronize. the message was: the ipod does not support the file format (mp4). strange, right?

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.m4p protected AAC format music files
.m4b protected Audio Books
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How can we go about adding new Alarm Sounds in the iPhone 4? I have been checking some tutorials to do it with iTunes, followed the instructions (like, puting a "Start" and "End" time to a song, creating an AAC file out of it, copying the song in a folder, changing it's extension to M4R for Ringtones, deleting the AAC song from the iTunes and finally adding the M4R file back in iTunes...and it appears in a newly created folder called Ringtones, and it plays...)
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A Purchased category at the top for all ringtones purchased from the iTunes store, a Custom category for all ringtones that I created with songs or music files that do not include DRM protection, and the Standard sounds, which is the same that I have available when selecting a default ringtone for all calls, and when selecting a ringtone for a particular contact.

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You can directly convert mp3 to m4r as your iPhone Ringtone.
Just follow this guide to make your own iPhone Ringtone.
How to Convert MP3 to M4R iPhone Ringtone on Mac
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Can't open emailed ringtone has itune logo but att0025.dat next to it wont open had m4r before want that back how please help

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Need help please. My son was on my laptop don't know what he did. I like to downloaded ringtones i them send them to my email a few days ago it was good well today i went to send the ringtone tried to open it and it wont let me.
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Hi there,
I just got my iPhone a few weeks ago and recently made some custom ringtones using the Myxer app. The finished ringtones were emailed to me in m4r format, which I then downloaded and dragged into iTunes. I enabled the "Ringtones" folder to appear in iTunes by changing my preferences, but when I drag the m4r files into iTunes, they still do not appear under "Ringtones." I tried moving the files from iTunes onto the desktop, deleting them in iTunes, and then dragging them back in, but that still didn't work. When I click "Get Info" for the files, it says "Ringtone," so I can't imagine why it wouldn't appear under the "Ringtones" folder.
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This was happening to me too but only for some of my songs. I have a mac so I dunno about PCs, but for most of my ringtones I had to create an ACC version in itunes to make them short enough then turn that into a m4r and those all worked fine. But if the song was already short enough and I didn't create an ACC version and just turned the original into a m4r, then it wouldn't appear in my itunes.
so if you're on a mac:
1. go to get info, options, pick when you want the song to start and end.
     Has to be pretty short to work, 30 second or less is good
     if it's already short enough that's fine
2. right click and click 'create ACC version'
     a copy with the length you put in will appear, drag that into a folder or whatever and just type in m4r where m4a would be
     still make an ACC version even if it's the right length
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I am a new iPhone 4s owner. I have a tone in iTunes that I downloaded from the web as a m4r file. Why won't it sync to my iPhone so I can set it as a ringtone?
Lois

Yes, the tone is available and checked in iTunes under the Tones library.
Yes, it is also listed under the Tones tab for my iPhone, but it is grayed out.
Yes, tones are selected under "sources" in General Preferences, along with everything else.
SyncTones was NOT selected under the Tones tab for my iPhone. I did so and it synced.
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Hello ed2345,
Thanks for the help, but this is not the problem.
It's hard to describe the problem, but I'll try it again, this time with pictures.
I was left with the following folders in the iTunes Downloads folder.
http://www.picfront.org/d/7yb3
These TMP Folders have a download.m4a and a Info.plist file.
After moving the audio files in iTunes a bit I get this.
http://www.picfront.org/d/7yb2
As you can see no other Information for the download.m4a than the length.
That's how the .m4p file looks like
http://www.picfront.org/d/7yb1
And this is how the same .m4a file currently looks
http://www.picfront.org/d/7yb0
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How to create custom Ringtones (m4r files) from Songs in iTunes

Jakarta, 14 June 2013
On Mac OS : 10.7.5 (Lion)
On iTunes : 11.0.4
Difficulty : intermediate - hard
Assuming you know basic Ctrl+Click and Option+Drag...
Full correct steps should be like this :
1) Select a favourite song in iTunes program to be made into Ringtone...
2) "Get Info" on that song name and make any 0:30 seconds portion of that song....
(specify "Start" & "Stop" time - under "Options" – to any 30-seconds duration and click OK)
3) Right-click or Ctrl-Click again on same song name and select "Create AAC Version" to create an .m4a file...
(when done iTunes will create a Chime)
4) to locate the created .m4a file easily, Ctrl-Click again on same song name and select "Show in Finder" from the pop-up list...
(iTunes will automatically point the folder location of the original .mp3 & the newly created .m4a files... keep this window open for later...)
5) change the .m4a file to .m4r as suggested...
(rename to whatever you like but you must change the extension to .m4r)
6) At this point, the m4r(original) file isn't a "Ringtone" file yet... which we'll need to change now...)
(check under "Get Info" > "Kind" : it's still "Apple MPEG-4 Audio")
...1st by dragging that newly changed .m4r(ori) file to somewhere out of that same default folder it was created by iTunes...
{ this is where most confusions occur, take note here, it gets rather complicated }
7) Once it's outside of that folder, Double Click the m4r(ori) file and iTunes will play...
(u can stop it immediately...) this is just to let iTunes automatically convert that m4r(ori) file into a new duplicate & places it inside the initial default folder where the original .mp3 file is kept... we kept the window open previously, remember?
8) Locate that duplicate .m4r(new & true) file, in that same .mp3 folder and now DUPLICATE-Drag (press Option while dragging to get the "+" sign) it to the "TONES" folder in your default apple folder structure. (check under "Get Info", this .m4r(new) File's "Kind" should be "Ringtone")
//to get to that "TONES" Folder : First Locate your iTunes default Music Folder in your Mac --> usually it's in your Default "MUSIC" folder --> Navigate to "iTunes Media" --> Navigate to "Tones". !! Keep this window open to make the transfer manually !!
9) Once your duplicate is placed inside the "Tones" folder, double-click on that duplicate .m4r(true) file and let iTunes play, it should automatically place that ringtone file into the "Ringtone" sidebar List in the iTunes program... (check program to see)
Somehow u needed both duplicates : 1 – inside the default initial .mp3 folder & 1 – inside the Tones Folder which we Duplicate+Drag into... and both must be "Ringtone" – Kind... for this to work.
10) There you go. Now you can Sync / Delete / Add the whole Ringtone contents to your iPhone as you wish.
//Don't forget to set SYNC ON under the iphone "Tones" tab in your iTunes - iPhone screen... and click big SYNC button at the bottom of iTunes program & wait for the magic.
( Finally you can check inside your iPhone "Sounds" settings and hopefully if all steps done correctly, the bloodycomplicatedringtone selection will be there. Enjoy!

Hi --
I'm using iTunes 11.0.4 on OSX 10.8.4 and am having a hard time following your instructions to create a ringtone from a snippet of a .mp3 file using iTunes:
1) Select a favourite song in iTunes program to be made into Ringtone... CHECK!
2) "Get Info" on that song name and make any 0:30 seconds portion of that song.... CHECK !
3) Right-click or Ctrl-Click again on same song name and select "Create AAC Version" to create an .m4a file... PROBLEM!
It's when I hit Step 3 that I have a problem -- my "right click menu" at that point looks like this:
There's no option to "create AAC version." Nor does this option appear anywhere in iTunes that I can find.
It really shouldn't be this confusing to create a freaking ringtone. HELP PLEASE!

.m4r help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ringtones

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