Hello. I'm new to everything IOS related, so maybe it's something simple but i didn't figure it out. So, I wanted to copy some ringtones on to my Iphone SE 2nd generation. So i've converted my ringtones to .m4a in gold wave, and then changed their extension to .m4r by opening cmd from the address bar in the folder where my tones are and typed this command:
rename *.m4a *.m4r
That way i've got .m4r files, since gold wave and even foobar don't have the possibility to convert to .m4r, but i've read these formats are quite the same.
So i've connected the phone to my pc, opened itunes and went to the tones category in the iphone library. Then i've pasted everything there, but it was just saying copying and nothing changed, and on the status bar it was saying something about waiting for changes to be applied.
Can someone help? Regards.
By VIPPotato, 13 April, 2022
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Can't remember well but
I remember you have to find first where exactly your iTunes library is at.
Then you have to find the folders:
iTunes Media then inside that find the folder ringtones. Copy the ringtones here.
GO back to iTunes, go to file, look around until you find add to library and find the same ringtones folder and add it.
sink your iPhone again and the tones will be there.
OK so i did this but still
I've found the itunes media folder under my user name in music folder, so there was no ringtones folder, but i've created it. Then i went to itunes, file menu, add folder to library, and pointed it to that folder. Sadly nothing changed, it doesn't show that folder anywhere in my library, even if i've copied ringtones there, even after syncing ringtones didn't move to my phone.
Change to file extention to .m4a
Did you change the file extension to .M4A? This may sound trivial, but that has fixed why the ring tone did not copy over to the tones folder via itunes.
Good Luck
sadly it didn't help
if i change the format to .m4a it's threating it like a song and it shows up in the music category, if i tried pasting it in to the tones category nothing happened, and as i've already mentioned before .m4r tones didn't want to sync. I really hate ITunes, in android setting a custom ringtone is much easier.
There is an app called music to ringtone
EI have heard on a podcast, a demo of the app, music to ringtone.. You can make ringtone from this app on your iPhone and import them to ringtones and set as a ringtone as well. If you are interested Then just let me know in comments below. I will tell you the name of the podcast. It was pretty straight forward, . The app link is: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/musictoringtone/id1490766352.
It is very much accessible and easy to understand. But it is paid app so it will give you ads in between. You can close the ads by turning on screen recognition and by finding the close add button.. hope this help’s.
You don't need to use itunes