[rclawson]

I can not get the file extention to change
How do we do that my computer will not let me
I am running vista ultimate
Please help

[mphenterprises]

Hi RCLawson and welcome to the PCWorld Communities. :D



The Discussion to which you have posted your concern is in relation to the news article. I have branched your issue into its own Discussion. This will give the members of the Community a greater chance of seeing and responding to your question.

Can you please elaborate as to exactly what problem you have?

[rclawson]

well yes i can, the newsletter was telling me to do the following steps to make any mp3 a ringtone for my iphone
# Start iTunes and find the song you want to convert. (It must be an MP3.)
# Right-click the song and choose Get Info.
# Click the Options tab.
# Check the Start Time and Stop Time boxes, then enter times for each (no more than 30 seconds apart, the maximum length for a ringtone). I used 0:00 and 0:30, respectively, as "Spit It Out" has a perfect ascending lead-in.
# Click OK, then right-click the song again and choose Create AAC Version. You should immediately see a new 30-second version of the song.
# Drag that version out of iTunes and into the folder of your choice.
# Delete the 30-second version from iTunes and undo the Start Time/Stop Time changes to the original.
# Open the folder containing the 30-second AAC file you dragged out of iTunes, then change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r. Double-click it and it immediately gets added to iTunes' ringtone library.
# Finally, sync your iPhone. When it's done, you can head into the settings and select your new ringtone.
but when it came time to change the file extention my computer will not let me. Is it a computer issue or a user issue haha did I do something wrong. that is were I am stuck

[rgreen4]

If I understand the situation, you are at step 8 changing just the file extension.
Now, are you opening the file in Windows Explorer or in iTunes?

[rclawson]

I am running vista ultimate and I tryed opening it with itunes and it still would not let me change the file extention.

So I tried opening the file with media player and still not able to change the file extention.

what else can i try

[rgreen4]

Windows Explorer. Use it to list the files in the directory, right click on the file name and then in the pull down menu, click on rename.

[piyushsingh]

you can change file extensions from command promt. Just rename filename.aaa to filename.bbb.
OR

Open windows explorer . go to Organize -> folder options . In the view tab , there will be a checkbox for hide file extensions for known file types. Uncheck that and then you can change it directly for right click rename.

[rclawson]

Thank you ya'll for your input, my wife and I were able to get it to work after we unhide the hidden files and it put m4a at the end of the file.

before with the files hidden the file would not let me change, but know it WORKS thank you thank you