Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Make your own iPhone ringtones

1: Open iTunes.

2: Find the song that you want to make into a ringtone.

3: Listen to the song and find the part of it you want to use. The chorus may be a good place to start.

4: Write down the start and stop times of the clip.

5: Right-click the song and select "Get Info."

6: Click the "Options" tab.

7: Type in the start time of your ringtone in the text box next to "Start Time" in the minutes:seconds format.





8: Type in the end time of your ringtone in the text box next to "Stop Time." Make sure the ringtone is no more than 40 seconds long.





9: Click "OK."

10: Right-click your song again and select "Convert Selection to AAC." Wait for iTunes to convert your song. It will create a duplicate version.

11: Right-click the ringtone and select "Delete."

12: Click on the "Keep Files" button.

13: Find the file. It's usually in your User folder under Music > iTunes > iTunes Music and under the band's name. It will have an extension of "m4a."



 14: Replace the "m4a" extension of your ringtone with "m4r". You can
either double-click slowly to rename your file, or right-click and select "Get Info" on a Mac or "Rename" on a Windows PC.




15: Click "Use .m4r" or the PC equivalent when the system warns you that the change may affect the use of your file.




 16: Double-click the ringtone file. ITunes will automatically add it to your ringtones folder in your iTunes Music Library.





17: Connect your iPhone and sync your ringtones.

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