Bournemouth — Mar 15th 2016
Mick started by looking back to the discussion on iCloud. iCloud can back-up and synchronise iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) but it syncs all music and all photos etc. Mick questioned whether this was what users really wanted, especially those having devices with smaller memory sizes. He then explained that iTunes running on a Mac or PC can perform the same job when the device is connected by USB using its cable (the same one used for charging).
Once an iOS device is connected, iTunes will show it at the top of its sidebar (this with the latest, v12.3, iTunes, older versions vary in where they show devices). Clicking on the device displays a number of option within iTunes (including sync over WiFi, though Mick suggests staying with the cable option).
Further configuration screens allow a finer choice of which media to sync than is possible with iCloud. For music, a new playlist can contain all the tracks wanted on the iOS device and iTunes set to sync just that playlist; the contents can be changed at any time and a further sync performed. A similar process allows a Photos album of choice to be sync-ed.
Continuing the iTunes sync theme, Mick then showed how to produce a custom ringtone for an iPhone. He loaded a music track into a new Garageband project as the sole "instrument", then selected the most useful part (up to 30s duration) before setting it as a loop. He then saved it to iTunes (from Garageband) as a ringtone. On the next sync, it becomes available on the iPhone as a ring tone option.
Using Garageband is one way of producing a ringtone; iTunes is also capable of doing it (with a little help from the Finder) though no-one present had actually tried it. The method is described at:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/05/16/how-to-create-ringtones-in-itunes/
If anyone tries it, we'd love to hear about the results.
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