Creating a Ringtone from a Song for your iPhone
Friday December 28, 2007 18:27 |
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With the latest version of the iPhone software, you can once again create ringtones for your iPhone for free. As to how long this will last is unknown, but for the moment it will work.
In order for the following steps to work the following have to be true:
- The song cannot have DRM on it (meaning you can’t have bought it from the iTunes Music Store)
- You must be using firmware 1.1.2 on your iPhone
- You must be using iTunes 7.5
- Ringtones should be between 30-40 seconds long
Creating the Ringtone
- Open iTunes
- Highlight the song that you want to use as a ringtone
- Right-click on the song and select Get Info
- Click on the Options section (Options Tab in Windows)
- Enter in the start time and end time that you want (remember the 30-40 second rule)
- Right-click on the song and select Convert Selection to AAC or Convert Selection to MP3. By doing this, you’ll have a new 30-40 second clip in iTunes (the song will automatically start playing)
- Select the new 30-40 song selection, right-click on it and select Show in Finder (Show in Windows Explorer in the Windows version of iTunes)
- Copy the file to the desktop
- Go back to iTunes, right-click on the 30-40 song selection and select Delete (click the Remove button in Windows)
- Opt to move the files to the trash (Recycle Bin in Windows)
- Go to your desktop, and rename the file changing the extension from mp3/m4a to m4r
- Double-click the file and it will import into the ringtones section of iTunes
