Create US iTunes Account without credit card

(1) Open iTunes and change iTunes store to United States.

(2) Goto App Store of US and Click to buy a free app

(3) Choose to create a new account and enter email address and password and other questions. Choose none for payment method to create a new iTunes Account. Enter a valid US address (find it in Google), you need valid and matching city (e.g. Piscataway), state(e.g. NJ) and zipcode (e.g. 08854) and telephone number (3 digits for area code and 7 digits for telephone number) e.g. (852)9123456.

If you want to find a valid address in US, you can also make use of Google Map in iPhone. For example, first search a city say San Franciso, then search Starbucks.

(4) If you want to add Store credit to your iTunes Account to buy paid app,
buy US iTunes gift certificate from ebay (search here) or from your friend in US (tell him to email you the Activation Code and the Card Serial Number)

Delete iTunes in Mac OS X

Back up your ~/Music/iTunes library

To delete iTunes. On OS X, you can do that with:
# rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app
# rm -rf /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework
# mv ~/Music/iTunes ~/Music/iTunes.7.6

Create free custom ringtone for iPhone

Steps to create custom ringtones using iTunes for the iPhone.

Requirement, iTunes version 7.5 or above, iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 or above. The screen dumps are in Mac OSX, but can also applies in Windows OS.

1. Ensure iTunes -> Preferences -> Advanced, Import Using is "AAC Encoder"


2. Right Click the song in iTunes Library and select "Get Info" and Choose option Tab and edit the Start Time and Stop Time as below
Remember that the selected range should be less than 40 seconds


3. Right Click the same song in iTunes Library and select "Convert Selection to AAC"


4. After converion a new song will be created in iTunes Library with the same name but the duration is the selected range in step 2. You can goto the "Recently added" playlist to find it, it will be on the top of Recently added.

5. Right click the newly created song and select "Show in Finder"


6. Copy the newly created song to desktop and rename it from extension .m4a to .m4r


7. Drag the .m4r file back to iTunes Library and the song will be in the Ringtones section of the iTunes Library
Remember the name of the ringtone cannot be too long, less than 15 characters is OK, otherwise the ringtone cannot be synced to iPhone.


8. Goto the song that you have selected in step 2 and reset the Start and Stop Time.

9. Connection iPhone and enable the sync ringtone option, then the custom ringtone will be in the iPhone.

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