iPod - Recommend you two ways to make ringtones for iPhone 3GS style197 - Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:40 pm Post subject: Recommend you two ways to make ringtones for iPhone 3GS
Recommend you two ways to make ringtones for iPhone 3GS
Solution 1: Make ringtones for iPhone 3GS via iTunes
This method is available from firmware 1.12 to the latest firmware 3.12. Suggest you to rename the ringtones in iTunes after they are made well. So that it will never occur the problems that iPhone 3GS can not find ringtones while sync or iTunes prompts the ringtones can not be synchronized.
Step 1:
Open iTunes, get into the Music list, and find the song you want to make as iPhone 3GS ringtone. For example: Symphony No. 9 (Scherzo), double-click it to play, and then you can see iTunes showing the playing time.Record the start time and end time of the climax part which will be made as ringtone, such as 0:10—0:40, do remember that the length of iPhone 3GS ringtone can not be more than 40 seconds.
Step 2:
Right-click on the song, select “Get Info” > “Options”. Insert start time and end time, then click “OK”. If you want to have a larger volume ringtone, you can adjust it here as well.
Step 3:
Back to the iTunes music list interface, right-click the song again, and select “Create AAC Version” in the menu, after that you will see there is another similar file in the list with shorter playing time. This is the original source of your ringtone.
Right-click on this file, and select “Show in Windows Explorer” in the menu, then change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r.
Double-click on the .m4r file, and then you will see it is added to Ringtones list.
The next is very important! Right-click on this file, click “Get Info” > “Info”, and then change the file name.
Well, finished. Do remember going back to the music list to uncheck the start time and end time of your song, otherwise, only the selected part will be played each time you play it.
Solution 2: Make iPhone 3GS ringtones via Pavtube Ringtone Maker
Step 1: Add files
Click “Add” button to import audio or video files which you want to make as iPhone 3GS ringtones into this program.
Step 2: Select output format and set save path
After source files are imported, the following interface will show up, then you should click on the drop-down list of “Format” to select “iPhone Ringtones (*.m4r)” as output format. Meanwhile, you can click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to locate the output .m4r files.
Additionally, if you want to indicate a certain audio or video duration to convert, you can insert your wanted start-time and end-time into the textboxes after “Start” and “End” respectively. Moreover, if you want to combine multiple files to be as a single file, you can tick “Merge into one file”. Besides that, it permits you exporting the generated files to iTunes directly, to achieve this goal, you just need check “Export to iTunes”, in that way, it’s convenient for you to sync the output files to iPhone 3GS as ringtones.
Step 3: Start conversion
Click on “Generate” button, and then conversion task will begin as soon as possible.
