How to make your own ringtones for free

This article will teach you how to get ring tones on your phone without a catch of having to buy something.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 5 Minutes of time.

1. So everywhere you go there is websites that try to give you free ring tones, so you go through all the hoops and realize you only have to sign up for two clubs in order to get one lousy free ring tone. What’s the point? Well here’s a way to get ring tones to your cell phone using the CD's you already own.
   
   Here's what you do, Open your windows sound recorder, which on most XP computers can be found by going to Start-All Programs-Accessories-Entertainment-Sound Recorder. In my opinion, the fast and easy way would be to go to Start-Search, and search for "sound recorder" and double-click on the icon that appears.

2. So now you have your sound recorder open. Next you want to go to your volume control. This can be found by either going to Programs-Accessories-Entertainment-volume control, or by clicking on the speaker icon on the right-hand lower corner. Once you have the volume control open you want to go to Options-Properties, than recording and select the "wave out Mix". The reason why you want to do this is because when the "wave out" is selected your computer will record anything playing on the computer. As a normal practice your computer will record whatever is plugged into the microphone port.
   
   So now we have the Windows Sound recorder open, and we have set the volume control to "wave out" mix. Now you want to open up your music player whether it be a Windows Media Player, or itunes, and pick the song you want. So from here it gets pretty easy you’re going to go to your sound recorder press the red circle for record, than press play to play the song, and let it record the part of the song you want to have as a ring tone. Now press stop or the square once you have the part you want. A standard ring tone will be no more than 20 seconds, usually anywhere from 5-15 seconds is the norm. Now go to file-Save and save the file as "ringtone" or whatever will help you find it. Now this next part, is simple but make sure you follow it closely or it can sound more complicated than it is. Log on to your email account Yahoo, Hotmail, Aol. the easiest way to figure it out is to just email yourself a text message. So just go to your phone, go to "new text message", text "hey" or whatever you want and email it to your self. Once you get the email the "from" or "sender" will be your cell phones emails address. Your what? That's right; your camera phone has what’s called "MMS" which is "Multi-Media Service". Which basically allows your cell phone to send and receive picture messages.

3. So it should look something like "[e-mail]" which is the phone number "7185558988" and the "@mms.mycricket.com" is the email service in this case Cricket Phone service uses. Others like Verizon look like [e-mail] and so on. It's hard to tell which one every cell phone carrier is so it's easier just to send your self a quick email. Now, here's the last step, so hit reply, and click "add attachment" now click browse and find the song you saved earlier named "ringtone" and add it. Now hit send. With in 5 minutes you should get a new picture message from your email. Open it and you will start to hear the song. Now go to "store item" or whatever your phone give you the option to do to store the contents of the message. Now once saved, go to your settings and ringers and find your newly made ring tone, and that's it.

Tips & Warnings

• Cell phone carrier’s charges can vary, and sending text messages and receiving can cost per message depending on the plan you have with your cell phone company, the best thing to do would be to ask your carrier about the costs. I do not endorse or recommend you trying any of the above, it is only my discovery that I would like to share with others , please remember that there are copyrights on most songs, and you should check with the labels for permission to do the above, once you have purchased the song

[pep1player]

on 2/5/2009 I don't know; I think this is alot to do to get free ringtones.Customize your own ringtones. Check out this link below: http://pep1player.bluesquad.revenuewire.net/ringtone-studio

[ilovejesus]

on 8/1/2008 every time i send one my phone says "the part multipart/mixed;boundary was removed from the message as too large to be presented on the phone"????????

[dealer0fl0ve]

on 5/31/2008 where is 'wave out' mix???? i can't find it...i reached to de properties and de recordin' then i dunno what else to do or where to click...S.O.S

help me o_O

[Lakerette24]

on 9/23/2007 i've done all of the steps!! THANX for this article ... i was making my ringtones through myxer.com for a while now but its takin hours or should i say DAYZ to get tha ringtones n u don't nessiccarily get all of them i made 6 tones 2 dayz ago and i've only recieved one off them. so hopefully this way works. i've sent tha ringtones so now i am waiting to recieve the messages ... so far so good. N so what if u itz alil manual, it better than payin 2.99+ per ringtone

[Romba]

on 8/1/2007 Even easier solution is to use online ringtone maker
http://www.makeownringtone.com