General Discussion - Make your own iPhone ringtones via iTunes style197 - Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:40 pm Post subject: Make your own iPhone ringtones via iTunes
Make your own iPhone ringtones via iTunes
Since many fresh users of iPhone do not know how to make their own ringtones via iTunes, this post aims to solve this problem, if you are in need, please go along with it, if not, just skip it at will.
Note:
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 can not find ringtones while sync or iTunes prompts the ringtones can not be synchronized.
Okay, now let’s begin.
Step one:
Open iTunes, get into the Music list, and find the song you want to make as iPhone 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 ringtone can not be more than 40 seconds.
Step two:
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 three:
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. By the way, 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 the song.
