How To Convert Youtube Video Songs Into Mp3
Sharolyn Uriegas
On iTunes I paid for Beatles songs that were labelled as ringtones. I changed the extension to .m4r on a couple but they are too long to be used as ringtones. How do I take a chunk of a song and convert it (shorten it) suitably to be used as a ringtone? I am using a Mac computer.
I agree with you that it's absolutely maddening! I spent a couple hours trying to get it to work. I just wanted to make sure you did the steps that worked for me. It wasn't until I came to these steps that I figured it out and it finally worked.
I followed all the steps listed above and was successful in converting the track into a ringtone. I also imported the ringtone into iTunes however (it is listed as a Tone). however, it is the same length of the initial track. I know this is the issue b/c when I tried to import the Ringtone into my iPhone 7, an error popped up saying that the Ringtone is too long.
I've managed to create the proper ringtone file and it is now in my Tones section under the Cindi's iPhone section in my iTunes on my desktop. I made sure the checkbox was checked on the ringtone file, then I right clicked on Cindi's iPhone and chose sync... but it doesn't seem to make it to my ringtones on my phone ?
I dug a little deeper online and found that I needed to click on the little phone icon at the top, then choose Tones in the left column... then Sync Tones > Selected tones > and the track that I created.
I have edited a clip to 13 seconds in length; no duplicate file appears but I can confirm it is edited. I convert it to AAC and reveal it in finder. I rename the suffix to "m4r." I drag it to the desktop. I delete the original file from the playlist. I drag the file from the desktop into "Tones." A green plus sign appears. And nothing shows up in Tones.
Thanks to your pointer, I was able to find the Automatically Add to iTunes folder and successfully dragged my audio clip into it. But it does not appear in my iPhone 7 even after syncing. I expected to see it at the top of the Ringtones section in the Sounds and Haptics directory. But it's not there, even after turning on/off both iTunes on my desktop and my phone. Any further thoughts? I'll try to make this the last question. Thanks again.
Great, now it is in the library connect your device, select the device icon that pops up in the toolbar, select the device's Tones tab, tick Sync Tones, and sync. It should then end up on your device.
It still doesn't show up on my phone after syncing. But, true to my word, that was my last question. I'm going to declare victory and retreat, as the saying goes. Thanks for your help. I'm sure the directions were accurate, there's just something going wrong on my end.
I'll just mention one more thing: When I edited the song down to a 30-second clip, I did not get a discrete file in the directory. The only change was that the song was shorter; not even the nominal length changed (i.e., the length of the song in the directory was unchanged). I continued with the process, converting it to AAC, changing the suffix to .m4r, etc. Then, when I dragged the song to the desktop in preparation to put it into the "Add Automatically" folder, the length of the clip reverted back to the original. I know what you're thinking, but there is no way I picked the wrong file. I feel the fact I was not able to generate a separate, shorter version of the song has something to do with the problem.
When you edit the start and stop times of the original track you're altering some properties stored in the iTunes database. The file itself isn't trimmed, but only plays between the two points that you've set. When you convert such a track to a new file only the active section is copied into the new track. You can sort the library in the Songs view by date added with most recent at the top to make sure you're locating the newly converted file in Finder to work with for the next steps. I suspect you've changed the extension of the original file which even with a .m4r extension doesn't satisfy the
Honestly my trouble started when I tried to sync my I tunes on my phone and MAC. I instinctively installed the new IOS 11. My ringtones disappeared. and now I can't find the tones on my general preferences on my Mac I Tunes. The song is in my library, and on my I phone library.
I'm afraid it doesn't work that way.
Midi files are essentially scores. They don't store the music itself, but rather the positions of instruments meant to be played. The computer does the rest. This is why midi files are so small, because they are just the score of the song.
So you'll either have to compose your MIDI by hand, or get a program to do it for you (Which will sound REALLY bad and nothing like what your MP3 sounds like). You're better off doing it yourself.
Long story short; you cannot.
Think of MP3 music as being like a JPG of a text document, while MIDI is like the raw text file. It's easy to turn a text file into a JPG (open an image editor, use the text tool, paste your text, save the image) but it's a whole other kettle of fish to do the other way around. It's technically possible with software that does optical character recognition, bu1 tncy arc pr0m to connn1t crror5 thot rnakc the tcxl unreadable. (If you deciphered the previous sentence, congrats.) And even that comparison is generous, because music is a lot more complex acoustically than a text is graphically. There's a limited number of character shapes and the document can be expected to have high contrast that makes the shapes simpler to distinguish and recognize (after all, they're meant to be read). Music is very, very different from that.
So your choices are use something that will "convert" your MP3 to a MIDI and give you horrible garbage, or just try to transcribe the music into MIDI by hand, and process not entirely dissimilar from trying to transcribe music you hear into its sheet notation.
I've used WIDI in the past. Be advised it's not free, and the tool is extremely rough. It tends to overdo certain notes, causing high pitched spikes in the music. I tend to use it as a rough head-start for when I'm transcribing, as it does get the notes right, it just fills the notes with unwanted crap in the process. However it's probably the best tool out there for doing this.
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