How to create custom ringtones?

How to create custom ringtones?

Article by Ligang

One of the things that Apple hasn’t made easy for iPhone owners is providing a way to create custom ringtones in Windows. If you’re a Mac owner you can use GarageBand, but Apple doesn’t provide that application on Windows. Instead what they expect you to do is purchase a song for .99, and then convert it to a ringtone for another .99. Here a couple ways to create and use your own custom ringtones on the iPhone: iTunes. You can actually convert a DRM-free song into a ringtone using only iTunes with a few steps:

1. Start iTunes and find the DRM-free song you want to convert to ringtone. Right-click on it and select the Get Info option. 2. On the Options tab locate the Start Time and End Time options. This is where you want to specify the portion of the song you wanted converted into a ringtone. Check both of the boxes, and make sure your ringtone is under 30-seconds. Press OK when finished. 3. Right-click on the song you just modified, and choose the “Convert to AAC” option. If you don’t see this in the context menu navigate to “Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing”, and make sure the AAC Encoder is selected in the Import Using menu.

4. Once the song has finished being converted to the new format it will appear in your music list, and the “Time” should reflect the correct durationof the ringtone (which should be less than 30-seconds). Now navigate to your iTunes music folder to find the converted song. Here’s an example of where my Green Day ringtone was located. 5. Make sure you’re able to see the file’s extension (.M4A) like in thescreenshot above. If you don’t see the extension go to Tools -> Folder Options -> View (Organize -> Folder and Search Options on Vista), and uncheck the Hide extensions for known file types box. Then click OK. 6. Copy the music file (with the .M4A extension) to your desktop. Once you’ve done that rename the file’s extension to .M4R which will make iTunes recognize it as a ringtone. Make sure there are no symbols (underscores, hyphens, etc…) inthe file name.

7. In iTunes go to File -> Add File to Library, and then browse for the file from step 6. Once you’ve selected it press the Open button. iTunes will place the ringtone in the respective section in your library.8. Sync your iPhone with iTunes and your newly created ringtone should get transferred over. If it doesn’t be sure to check the Ringtones tab in the iPhone configuration section of iTunes to verify that it is setup to sync your ringtones. The iTunes way may be a little difficult for some of you. However you can also accomplish this with iPhone Ringtone Maker software whichprovides a way to convert all your personal songs and audio tracks extracted from video files to iPhone Ringtones. But will cost you .95 (with 14.95 you can only purchase and make 8 ringtones using iTunes).

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