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Step 1
To begin making your free iPhone ringtone, right click on a song in iTunes and select ‘Get Info’.
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Step 2
In the Options tab, check the boxes ‘Start Time’ and ‘Stop Time’. (Remember to uncheck these when you are done making your free ringtones for your iPhone). Input the time that you want the ringtone to start and stop, and make sure to keep it under 30 seconds. Click on ‘OK’ when you are done.
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Step 3
Your song has now been ‘clipped’. Right click on your clipped song, and choose ‘Convert Selection to AAC’. (If the menu does not show ‘Convert Selection to AAC’, and shows ‘Convert Selection to MP3’, you need to change this by going into ‘iTunes’, then ‘Preferences’, ‘Advanced’, ‘Importing’, and in the ‘Import Using’ menu choose ‘AAC Encoder’.)
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Step 4
When the song you have chosen for your iPhone ringtone is done encoding, go to your iTunes Music folder, find the song, and drag it to the desktop. Once the song is the desktop, return to iTunes and delete the clipped version from your iTunes library.
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Step 5
Right click on the song on the desktop, and choose ‘Get Info’. Navigate to the name and extension section, and change the extension from .m4a to .m4r.
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Step 6
Once you have change the extension, double click on the song file, and add it to the Ringtones section of your iTunes library. Finally, to add the free ringtone to your iPhone, sync your iPhone with iTunes.
Comments
snoogens711 said
on 12/6/2009 Having problems... I was able to convert it to aac file but right clicking on the file in desktop doesn't show the 'Get Info' in the box, any ideas?
bladefish82 said
on 12/5/2009 It absolutely worked for me. I exactly followed the steps mentioned above and I could create a ring tone and synced it with my iPhone. Originally from some other source, when I was browsing through, I found out that you can convert a track into a ringtone only if you've bought it in iTunes but that is BS***!!!! this article proved that wrong. Thanks for sharing.
leasey17 said
on 10/5/2009 I have followed the steps above but when I try and sync the ringtone to my iphone itunes tells me it can not be synced becuase the file can not be found. I checked itunes and the file is in the ringtone folder and itunes can play it. Any ideas how to get it to sync to the iphone?
witchywoo said
on 5/7/2009 useful info about the converting to aac option. Mine had disappeared as I was converting to mp3 and I didn't know how to get it back. I'd much rather use this than some dodgy website.