How to Get Free, Pro-Quality Ringtones for Your iPhone

If you’re getting fed up with buying new ringtones every time you upgrade your phone (not to mention paying over five bucks for a few second audio snippet, when you can get a whole song for $1.69!), you’ll be glad to know that if you have an iPhone, there is a simple way that you can make your own ringtones from any song, for free. Make as many as you like, using any recording for a ringtone … without paying a cent. Here’s how!
What you’ll need:
An iPhone – this method works with Apple products that sync with iTunesiTunes, current versionAn mp3 file that you want to make a ringtone from.Step by stepStart by opening iTunes and finding the song you want to use in your Library. If you’ve recently acquired the song, make sure you’ve added the song to your library!
If you bought a song from iTunes, the program recently included an option to automatically create a ringtone from your song. Simply right-click on the song (or Command-click if you’re using a Mac), and select ‘Create Ringtone’. A window will briefly pop up at the bottom of the iTunes screen, and the song will automatically appear in the ‘Ringtones’ folder. You simply have to sync your iPhone or drag the file across manually.If your song comes from a CD, iTunes will tell you off (*bong!*), and let you know that only songs purchased from the iTunes store can be converted to ringtones. You can safely ignore that – simply follow these steps.
Right click on the song you have chosen, and go to Get Info.Click on the Options tab in the dialogue boxIn the Start and Stop time fields, choose the points in the song where you want your ringtone to begin and end. You have a maximum of 40 seconds for iPhone ringtones. To make it easier for yourself, highlight each number individually and edit it. This saves formatting problems with the time field.Click OK – you’ll be returned to your music library. Don’t worry, you haven’t chopped off the end of your song – the stop time change is fully reversible.Right click on the song again, and choose ‘Create AAC version’.A new version of the song should pop up underneath the original – you can now change the start and stop time back to what they were originally in your mp3 track. If you’ve forgotten, just check it out in the library – iTunes won’t have changed the track time. Set the start to zero and the end to one second after what iTunes say, to allow for the program rounding track times down.Right click on your AAC version and hit ‘Show in windows Explorer’, or ‘Finder’ if you’re on a Mac.If you don’t get this option, navigate to your iTunes library in Windows Explorer and find you AAC file.Right click to rename the file – change the extension from .m4a to .m4r. Windows will give you a Dad-style lecture about making the file unstable – it is safe to ignore this message, it is a generic one that pops up for file extension changes.Go back to iTunes and delete that AAC version.Import your new .m4r version into the library, and either sync your iPhone or manually drag and drop the file into the Ringtones section of your iPhone.Voila! Personalised iPhone ringtones for free.Remember that if you are experiencing trouble (or if Apple finds a way to undo this capability in the future!), that you can always have the software automatically create a ringtone from any song that you purchase from the iTunes store. Ringtones from the back of a magazine might cost you several dollars; you can get a whole song from the iTunes Store for $1.69 to use as a ringtone.

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