Ok! A) I have been not posted anything for a long time...sorry for that. B) following the XP instructions without using AUDACITY I have been able to create a ringtone for a friend of mine!
Here it is, hope it works for all of you who use Xp....btw, Xp users, you need to redeem your souls and get a Mac!!
1) create a new folder in your iTUNES folder under
\my documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music name this new folder
ringtones.
2) Now choose ANY song (MP3) from your PC or just incert a cd into your computer.
3) open iTUNES, now select the song that you want as a ringtone.
4) Right click on that song, and select
get info. On that new menu click on
options
5) In the middle of the
options window you will notice the
start time and the
stop time.
In these two boxes you will put the time you want your ringtone to start at and the stop time
i.e. 2:25.45 start 2:30.45 end. For this I recomend the following, (this is rather old school by some standards
)
-First you will need a pen, pencil, lipgloss, eyeliner, blood, anything that writes and paper....yes any kind of paper even Toilet paper!!
-Listen to the song from start to finish in iTUNES or Quicktime what ever gets you off! PAY CLOSE ATTENTION to the time that appears at the end of the progress bar on your player!
-As you come to the point of the song that you want as a ringtone write down the the starting time and ending time
i.e. 2:25.45-2:30.45
6) Write down the starting and ending time on such said windows
start time,
stop time
7) Press the
OK button.
8) Right click on the song again and this time you will convert it to
ACC
-IF you see
Convert Seletction to MP3 then you are going to have to change this so that it will look like this
Convert Seletction to ACC
A) Under EDIT on the menu bar of iTUNES look for
preferences Ctr +, click on it and look for the Advance tab
B) Once in there you will see three sub tabs general, importing, burning. We will click on
importing
C) under
Import using: [___________][v] you will select ACC Encoder, click the OK button.
9)OK now we are going to convert our lil pre-ringtone into a ACC song by doing step number
8).
10) After the song has been converted it will appear above the original song with the new time
i.e. 0:05
11)Click, hold and drag the song from iTUNES onto your ringtones folder that you created
\my documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\rigntones. You will then notice that the format of the song is not MP3 nor ACC but
m4a.
12)Here we will right click on the song and rename it. Let's say the song is from ohhhh I dunno,
Watermelon Nights by John Crave it will look like this
Watermelon Nights.m4a on your folder we will rename the format/extesnion from
.m4a to
.m4r yep that's all, change the A to an R.
-Notice the icon changed
13) Double click on the song and it will automatically appear in iTUNES under the ringtone section!! YAY!!!
14) Sync your iPHONE to your PC(Xp) and transfer the new ringtone.
And there you have it! Yes, yes, yes "
it's too long man!!!" i know but if I gave you a rather short version you would have bricked your iPHONE and tried to commit suicide, and who wants to walk in and see you "hanging around" rather dull, dontya think?!
Good luck and remember, it's not too late to redeem your souls! get a MAC.....like NOW!!!
