Yes, it’s possible to be iPod compatible and not iPhone compatible - their earliest models came out before the iPhone. You may want to check with the folks at Myvu to make sure you have the right model. Remember, it will only work with video, so you have to be playing a tv show or movie for them to work…..if you do that and they still don’t work, you probably have a pre-iPhone model.

I’m not sure what version of Myvu glasses I have but I bought them on Woot and they said they were IPOD compatible so I assumed they would work with my IPHONE. I get the same message you mentioned about it not being a compatible accessory but I still couldn’t get anything to show up in the glasses. Is it possible to be compatible with IPOD and not the IPHONE. Maybe I just need to update my iphone….I haven’t done that in awhile.

In Vista like XP there is also a way to show the file extensions so you can change them. From the Organize menu, select Folder and Search Options, View tab, then uncheck ‘Hide extensions for known file types.’ Click OK and viola, the extensions are displayed. You can proceed to change the extension, although remember that a file must really “be” what its extension suggests. If a file is not really a iTumes Rington then changing its extention to .m4r will not solve the problem. You must convert the file to an iTumes Ringtone (don’t as me how, I don’t know the specific steps). Ordinarily when a file “is” what it is, its extension will automatically reflect that. Changing an extension is only when you know the file is a certain format, but because it was sent by email missing its extension (perhaps to allow the email to fly under the radar due to virus blockers) you can proceed to add the correct extension. For example, changing the Excel file with .xls extension to Word file .doc extension will not magically turn an Excel file into a Word file. However, if someone sends you a Word file and accidentally named it with an .xls extension, or no extension at all, and you know it’s a Word file, you can safely add the .doc or .docx extension (depending on the version of Word) and it will open in Word. Same holds true with iTunes Ringtone files.

You may have to look up how to change that setting in Vista so that Windows Explorer always shows the file extensions.

Good luck!

Thanks for the help
-Ezra

When you have your song snippet in iTunes, you have to first remove it from the Library of Music, but DON’T click “yes” to send it to the trash, click “No”, then find it using Finder - then you can change the extension using Finder. You need to rename the extension .m4r

Then when it’s renamed you simply re-open it with iTunes, and it will be in your Ringtone section of the Library.

This works perfectly with the most current version of iTunes and the iPhone 3G and 3Gs - I’ve tested both.