Tips & Tricks: Create Your Own iPhone Ringtone
For those that have been reading my own personal blog, you will probably know that I recently get my paws on a brand new iPhone 3GS. Yes, don’t worry, the review of both the iPhone and the T-mobile G1, and their comparison posts will definitely come soon.
But, as I was searching for the perfect ringtone for my new, cuddly cellphone, I realized that it’s not possible to directly select one of your favorite music from your iPod and just make it your desired ringtone. A quick research online revealed that the evil masterminds at Apple had designed it so that you need to pay $0.99 for any ringtone, even if you own the original song. So in a sense, they want to take more money out of your wallet, which makes the stingy bug in me jitter like crazy. So I found a site that solved the problem, and I’m sharing it here with you~
How to Create Your Own iPhone Ringtone
- Start iTunes and find the song you want to convert. (It must be an MP3.)
- Right-click the song and choose Get Info.
- Click the Options tab.
- Check the Start Time and Stop Time boxes, then enter times for each (no more than 30 seconds apart, the maximum length for a ringtone). I used 0:00 and 0:30, respectively, as “Spit It Out” has a perfect ascending lead-in.
- Click OK, then right-click the song again and choose Create AAC Version. You should immediately see a new 30-second version of the song.
- Drag that version out of iTunes and into the folder of your choice.
- Delete the 30-second version from iTunes and undo the Start Time/Stop Time changes to the original.
- Open the folder containing the 30-second AAC file you dragged out of iTunes, then change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r. Double-click it and it immediately gets added to iTunes’ ringtone library.
- Finally, sync your iPhone. When it’s done, you can head into the settings and select your new ringtone.
Adopted from the original article Turn Any MP3 into an iPhone Ringtone by PC World Magazine
Enjoy your new ringtone! ^_^
