Make iPhone Ringtones Free, Using Just iTunes 8
October 6th, 2008 12:28 AM | by Christen da Costa | 13 Comments
You’re probably thinking it can’t be that easy? Wrong, it is that easy. Hit the video after the ‘leap’ for the demonstration or read my break down below on how to make a custom iPhone ringtone, totally free, using JUST iTunes 8.
- Find an MP3 (not AAC or anything with DRM [i.e. not bought, except Amazon])
- Right click on the MP3 and choose ‘Get Info’ and select ‘Options’
- Set the start and stop time to your favorite part of the song. You’ll want it to be no more than 20 seconds in length
- Click ‘ok’
- Right click on the song again, this time choose ‘Create AAC Version’
- Drag the newly made AAC file from iTunes to your desktop
- Delete the newly made AAC file from iTunes (it won’t work if you have duplicates)
- Change the name of the extension (the file on your desktop) from ‘m4a’ to ‘m4r’ (note: to see extension in Vista you’ll need to modify an option in your Control Panel
- Now drag the file, with the new extension, back into your iTunes Library. It should appear in your ringtones section
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Thanks so much :)
Worked great!
trying to creat iphone ringtones….following your steps, but when I click on “Advanced” as your vid suggests (which is different than printed instructions) I cannot find ‘Create AAC Version’ I have also tried the printed version instructions which say to ‘right click on song, this time, choose ‘Create AAC Version’ but I do not see that as well.
Help?
change you settings…in your itunes click Edit>Preference>General>Import Settings…then you can see; Import using (AAC Incoder)
click on edit from there go to preferences. click on the general tab. halfway down the tab it says import settings, click on that. a new window will pop up, you can change it from there to convert to ACC. thats what i did and it worked.
when i drag my 30 second AAC .m4r file into library in itunes, it appears in library but not in ringtones???? someone please help!
solved it! (i forgot to go into tools and uncheck hide file name)
Thanks for the tip Ruben…but as I follow your instructions you say to click on the import settings and change it from there… but what do I select? My choices are: AAC Encoder (which is already highlighted) AIFF Encoder, Apple lossless Encoder, MP3 Encoder and WAV Encoder.
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why is it even after it appears in the ringtones section, it doesnt appear when i sync it with my iphone?
I haven’t tested this method with iTunes 8.1, they might have blocked it.
That really works! Thanks so much!
I have 8.2.1. Will it be blocked in this version of itunes. Did they removed or blocked this function/way to make ringtones.
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