Creating ringtones from your iTunes library

Alright! So you have a vast collection of music files in your iTunes library and you're so proud of it. If only you wish how you can have some of those songs as ringtones in your iPhone. Not just that, you also want to decide which part of those songs will be trimmed for ringtones. So how to do that?

You can do all that right in your iTunes without using any third party softwares! Want to know how it's done? Let's get started.

1. Select your song in iTunes.
2. Right-Click on it and select "Get Info".
3. Select "Options" tab in the pop up.
4. Take a good look at this tab. Adjust "Start Time" and "Stop Time" according to your favourite section in the song which you want as ringtone. You can set this and play the song to test the right selection. You can also apply sound normalization by using "Volume Adjustment". Also you can apply any "Equalizer Preset" to your song. After you are done, press "OK".
5. Right click on the song and select "Create AAC Version". You'll get a sound alert when it's done.
6. Now go to "Recently Added" playlist. You should find your trimmed song there.
7. Right click on it and select "Show in Windows Explorer".
8. Rename the song from .m4a to .m4r

That's it! You have your own ringtone. Now place it in a common folder of your choice and sync it with iTunes. Don't forget to clear the song duration modification for your original song.

Good luck!

Annoying iTunes: Deleting obsolete music files

I haven't come across many people who loved using iTunes. If only things were simpler as was the case with older generation iPods. Initially everyone who love using it but soon enough the more you use iTunes the more frustrated you start getting.

For instance, have you ever faced the annoying situation of finding a lot of obsolete music files in your iTunes library? The files got orphaned for whatever reason (the files were moved to a different location, they were deleted or renamed). So you still don't know how to deal with those entries? Here a cool "trick" which can come handy.

1. Select "Music" files entry in the Explorer tree in the left panel.
2. Select all the music files! (Ctrl+A)
3. Left click and drag the selected files slightly. Wait there for a while.
4. Voila! All your useless files will be marked with an exclamation mark!

Now I'm not sure if you can sort the list based on this exclamation column. If you can, then just delete those entries by selecting them. If this doesn't work then just try sorting the files by the "Date Added" and chances are your files are grouped with exclamation marks in continuous blocks. So select those blocks and then delete them. All the best!