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Hi, my name is Andrew Duininck and I am making a video for EDUC 631
Foundations of Educational Technology and Online Learning.
Today I am going to be making a video entitled Procedures to Create a Ringtone on iTunes 11.
Okay, let's get started. The first thing you are going to want to do is to launch iTunes.
If you don't have the latest version of iTunes you can go to the top, click on iTunes, and click on check for updates.
I already have that version so I will start from here.
What you then want to do is to click on a song that you want to create a ringtone from.
I have previously done this and I want to choose this song by Hillsong called What the World Will Never Take.
You then right click on the song and click get info under song properties.
You should then click on options and in the start time and stop time you want to fill in the times of the ringtone that you want to create.
I will start at zero minutes and forty seconds and go to zero minutes and fifty-seven seconds.
I have previously chosen this time because it is the chorus of the song and that is what I want for my ringtone.
Usually, it will start at zero zero and will go as long as the song goes. So, you will actually have to click on that time and change it to what your ringtone will be.
Once you have those filled in, you will click OK
What you want to do now, is again right click on the song that you want to create a ringtone.
Then scroll down and click on "create AAC version".
Next, right click on the song that you just created in AAC version and click "Show in Finder".
This will open up Finder and will locate the song file you just created.
If it doesn't show up on the screen, you can type in the song you are looking for.
Here I have the three minute and six second version and I have over here the zero minutes and seventeen seconds version so this is the one that I am going to make my ringtone from.
Right click on the song, go to "Show in Finder".
There I have my What the World Will Never Take.m4a 621 kilobytes and then I want to rename the file extension.
Under the extension m4a it will not be in a ringtone format.
I will right click on that, go to "Get Info" and I want to change the extension of my song from m4a to m4r.
I do not want to keep m4a. I want to use m4r. I will click on that.
Now, I want to go back to iTunes and right click on the song that I created and delete it because I do not want the m4a version.
I will go here, right click and delete that version.
I want to move it to the trash.
Now, I am going to go to the song here that I created.
I deleted my m4a version and I am going back to my Finder and double clicking on the m4r version that I created.
Once you have moved that song back into iTunes either by double clicking on it or dragging it into iTunes,
your m4r version of the song that you created has now been put into your tones as a ringtone.
Now you can plug in your iPhone and it will automatically download to your ringtones.
That is it. I hope you can use this to make some great ringtones. Thank you, enjoy.