Hi Tim, Marlaina, and Others, For creating new ringtones from tracks in your iTunes music library, I think that the easiest way now is to get an AppleScript named "Make Ringable", which automates the process of creating ringtones from your own music. You need to download the AppleScript from: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=makeringable and place it in your user account under the Library/iTunes/Scripts folder. If this is the first time you've used an AppleScript in iTunes, you'll have to create the Scripts folder. You also need to set the start and stop time for a section from your selected music track to be used as a ringtone on the Options tab, before applying the "Make Ringable" AppleScript. Then the instructions are:
1. Select the track from the music library and then press cmd-i for Get Info 2. Press on the Options tab. 3. Enter the start and stop time for your ringtone in the corresponding text fields (this should be less than 39 seconds) 4. Press OK. 5. Since the track is already highlighted, navigate to the Scripts menu (created when you added the AppleScript) on the iTunes menu bar (VO-m and VO-left arrow twice), arrow down to "Make Ringable", and press return. 6. Follow the dialog window prompts. You'll be given the option to reset the start and stop times to full track play before exiting the script. The script will create a ringtone of the appropriate file type, and name of your choosing, and add it to your ringtones library. The original music track is unaltered. This should work on any track in your music library unless you have the early iTunes Music Store tracks from a few years ago with DRM that prohibits this. And for an easy way to determine the start and stop times you want to apply, get the RestartAt AppleScript from Tim's VoiceOver Downloads page: This will let you start playing any track in your iTunes library at the time you enter into the dialog window text box. This works the same way: place the AppleScript in the Library/iTunes/Scripts folder under you user account, then use it by highlighting a track and navigating to the "RestartAt" option in the Scripts menu on your iTunes menu bar. I wrote up a post for the viphone list, but with details and more time spent describing how AppleScripts work. If you simply read the instructions that download with the "Make Ringable" AppleScript, or that Tim provides on his web site, you don't really need more information, but if you want to read the viphone list post for more details, here's the link: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg35015.html (Re: making mp3 into ringtone). HTH. Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
