Making Personal Ringtones

I have QuickTime Pro and have created m4a's from MP3's so that I can download from internet to my phone in the past. Here's the process I go through and where I'm having problems... I click on file and then 'export' from QuickTime. Then I pick the song I've already condensed and previously saved to my desktop. I then select "Movie to MPEG-4". After that I go to the 'options' page and click on the drop down menu so that I can pick 'audio' not video. After I do this new options present themselves but they are all greyed out and untouchable (these options are Audio Format, Data Rate, Channels, Output Sample Rate, and Encoding Quality). I know what I want all of these options to be, but I can't click on them... Can anyone help me out?!
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Hi roope70,
Thanks for your feedback.
While I can see how you would ask why these limitations in general it seems safe to assume a ringtone will sound for less than 40 seconds before you pick up, so having longer ringtones would not have any practical use and the track(s) would only take up additional space.
Creating a ringtone is very easy, you can use the free app 'Ringtone Factory' to select and cut the section you want to use. Besides this app you will find many similar apps in Marketplace.
Hope this helps,
Kosh
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What does play for a contact that you have set a specific song from your /Sounds/Ringtones folder?
How about a caller without a specific song set? Or an unknown caller, what plays then?
When you set the individual and global ringtones, are you able to preview them by tapping the play button to the right of the file name? After previewing, did you tap on the name of the ringtone to change the setting?
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Hi roope70,
Thanks for your feedback.
While I can see how you would ask why these limitations in general it seems safe to assume a ringtone will sound for less than 40 seconds before you pick up, so having longer ringtones would not have any practical use and the track(s) would only take up additional space.
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