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Acronym

Dec 5, 2008, 12:41 AM

well i figured i'd save alot of topics on "how do i get songs for ringtones" so i made a quick guide on how to make ringtones

P.S. if this could get stickied so it doesnt get lost that would be great

its really simple

***NOTE*** IF THERE IS ANY SONG INFORMATION IN THE SONG INFO DELETE IT OR MULTIPLE RINGTONES SHOW UP IN YOUR RINGTONES ON YOUR IPHONE WHICH HAS TO BE DONE BEFORE RENAMING THE FILE FROM M4A TO M4R****

***NOTE 2*** DONT FORGET ONCE YOU HAVE MADE THE RINGTONE SET THE SONGS PLAY TIME TO NORMAL OR ELSE YOU WILL HAVE SHORTENED SONGS ***NOTE 2***

***NOTE 3*** YOU HAVE TO TRANSFER THE SONG FROM ITUNES I TRIED OTHERWISE AND IT CREATED MULTIPULE COPIES OF MY RINGTONES ***NOTE 3***

1)you have to set known file extensions to be visible
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3439/itunesstep1iq3.jpg

2)Go into itunes Click "Edit" "Preferences" and click The "Ringtones" Box
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/3724/itunesstep7nc8.jpg

3)songs have to be aquired some where other then itunes OR IT WONT WORK!!!

4)import desired song(s) into Itunes
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5992/itunesstep9nu9.jpg

5)right click song click "get info" click options tab and set the start and stop time to a 30 second frame EXAMPLE 2:32 - 3:02
MAKE SURE both boxes are clicked
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/8272/itunesstep3sc9.jpg

6)once you have selected a 30 second segmant hit ok and right click the song again and click "Create to ACC Version"
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/2084/itunesstep4zg7.jpg

7)once it is created copy it to the Desktop rename file from "Song Name.m4a" to "Song Name.m4r"
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/2121/itunesstep5ma1.jpg

8) go back to itunes delete the ACC version of the song and click "Move To Recycle Bin"
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4958/itunesstep6mj1.jpg

9)import the "M4r" file back into iTunes it should show up in the ringtones part of itunes
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9474/itunesstep8dl6.jpg

10)sync or manualy drag the ringtone to your iphone and enjoy

***NOTE*** IF THERE IS ANY SONG INFORMATION IN THE SONG INFO DELETE IT OR MULTIPLE RINGTONES SHOW UP IN YOUR RINGTONES ON YOUR IPHONE WHICH HAS TO BE DONE BEFORE RENAMING THE FILE FROM M4A TO M4R****

****NOTE 2*** DONT FORGET ONCE YOU HAVE MADE THE RINGTONE SET THE SONGS PLAY TIME TO NORMAL OR ELSE YOU WILL HAVE SHORTENED SONGS ***NOTE 2****

***NOTE 3*** YOU HAVE TO TRANSFER THE SONG FROM ITUNES I TRIED OTHERWISE AND IT CREATED MULTIPULE COPIES OF MY RINGTONES ***NOTE 3***

themoonisdown09

Dec 9, 2008, 10:13 AM

Bump posts are frowned upon: http://guides.macrumors.com/Help:Forum_Rules#Minor_Problems. Please at least contribute more to your topic rather than posting "Bump".

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Acronym

Dec 9, 2008, 07:22 PM

Bump posts are frowned upon: http://guides.macrumors.com/Help:Forum_Rules#Minor_Problems. Please at least contribute more to your topic rather than posting "Bump".

of course my bad im just trying to keep this near the top of the forums so that at some point they might sticky this so people dont have to continualy post more topics on "getting Custom Ringtones" etc.

egk69

Dec 9, 2008, 08:19 PM

So, what If I make it longer than 30 seconds!??

it wont work!?!?

Acronym

Dec 9, 2008, 08:48 PM

cant tell if you are trying to be sarcastic or not, but no it will not work.

egk69

Dec 10, 2008, 12:37 AM

cant tell if you are trying to be sarcastic or not, but no it will not work.

:D, nope that was a real Question, hehe, Im a newbie "yeeiii"... :p

Sorry if that was stupid, I just wanted to know, since you didnt say why, and I actually have a "CTU" (from 24-Series) ringtone, and its 38 seconds long, and it works on the iphone. But I guess that the 30 second rule its only with this method? or something like that?

Anyway, Good write-up, Mods should Sticky this, I already made 4 ringtones :D

Acronym

Dec 10, 2008, 10:35 AM

If I'm not mistaken anything longer then 30 seconds won't play properly and no question in this topic is "newbie"

Espo

Dec 10, 2008, 12:04 PM

I, too, think that this should be a "sticky." Very good work OP, thank you.

thomanjones

Dec 10, 2008, 06:00 PM

Awesome, thank you for the XP/Vista 'roll your own ringtones' tutorial. it's a piece of cake on OS X (via garage band), but now I can point my windows users over here instead of making their ringtones for them :)

jdzialak

Dec 10, 2008, 09:18 PM

Great info OP!!!

Thanks.

Joe

Acronym

Dec 11, 2008, 11:51 AM

Thanks for the replies this should get stickied not everyone runs on a mac :P

jdzialak

Dec 11, 2008, 01:49 PM

I have a Mac and never realized i could do this in itunes.
I just followed your instructions. Only difference I saw, was an option to create ringtone, not convert to AAC...even easier.

Thanks!

Joe

w3cum

Dec 11, 2008, 01:53 PM

I have been using http://www.myxer.com to convert and create all kinds of ring tones for my iphone....

Acronym

Dec 11, 2008, 02:40 PM

I have a Mac and never realized i could do this in itunes.
I just followed your instructions. Only difference I saw, was an option to create ringtone, not convert to AAC...even easier.

Thanks!

Joe

Yeah but that create ringtone option costs money my meathod doesn't :)

SSpectre

Dec 11, 2008, 03:06 PM

I use Audacity to make my ringtones from my mp3s.

Save ringtone as mp3, import into iTunes, convert to AAC, rename file to .m4r, open with iTunes.

Kinda convoluted, but gives me more control than iTunes alone.

Acronym

Dec 11, 2008, 08:00 PM

Acronym

Dec 15, 2008, 12:01 AM

I was doing a few tests on my computer with ringtones and found that a 37 second ringtone will work, while a 41 second ringtone simply won't show up on your iPhone.

Minimoose 360

Dec 15, 2008, 01:51 AM

I thought an iTunes update had rendered this work around useless? Apparently not?

Acronym

Dec 15, 2008, 02:21 AM

I'm pretty sure I have the latest iTunes and I use this meathod all the time I have 20 plus ringtones for my contacts and wake up alarms

egk69

Dec 20, 2008, 08:39 PM

Kevinnijjar23

Dec 20, 2008, 10:49 PM

This is possibly the dumbest way to make ringtones for the iphone
Download Iringer it is so easy to make them and it takes half the time it would to do it this way trust me i make all my ringtones off that program so easy to use

Acronym

Dec 22, 2008, 10:20 AM

Is it me, or when you do this, the songs lost all the quality!!???

I've done 3, and all of them sounds terrible horrible, :(.

or is it that all the ringtones are supposed to sound that bad!!??:confused:

BTW: you can do it longer than 30 seconds and it will work, i've tested this...:cool:

yes it can be but not much i made a ringtone about 40 seconds long and it didnt show up when i synced the ringtone. the sound quality shoulnt change, it is probably just the iphone speaker cause if played through your computer speakers it should sound normal.

This is possibly the dumbest way to make ringtones for the iphone
Download Iringer it is so easy to make them and it takes half the time it would to do it this way trust me i make all my ringtones off that program so easy to use

hey if you have an idea for making rngtones feel free to post it in here dont come here and flame other peoples idea.

Acronym

Dec 30, 2008, 01:36 PM

added another issue that i found visit first page to find out what it is.

feedback is always welcome

joshuaehud

Jan 5, 2009, 09:03 PM

hey guys, is there a way to add customized sounds or ringtones to text messages???

Acronym

Jan 5, 2009, 11:47 PM

hey guys, is there a way to add customized sounds or ringtones to text messages???

Not without jailbreaking and ssh'ing into your iPhone. I don't know how to create SMS tones but there are lots of people on here who do.

rhett7660

Jan 9, 2009, 05:43 PM

With iTunes version 8 is anybody else having problems bring the aac file to the desk top from iTunes? It won't let me do it. But if I create a mp3 file I can bring that out and then rename it. Weird.

Acronym

Jan 9, 2009, 06:35 PM

I'm pretty sure I have the latest itunes 8.1.1 (or what ever) and all I to is make the acc file and drag it to the desktop also try consider using wavepad that program is free and will convert to acc as well.

Anything for that matter that converts to acc will work

c32used

Jan 9, 2009, 09:51 PM

I'm pretty sure I have the latest itunes 8.1.1 (or what ever) and all I to is make the acc file and drag it to the desktop also try consider using wavepad that program is free and eill convert to acc as well.

Anything for that matter that converts to acc will work

hey I did this sync fine into iphone but not in ringtone folder for iphone...what's up?

Acronym

Jan 9, 2009, 09:54 PM

hey I did this sync fine into iphone but not in ringtone folder for iphone...what's up?

make sure you delete the original ACC file from itunes or it wont let you bring your ringtone back in and also make sure you move to "recycle bin" and not "keep file"

rhett7660

Jan 9, 2009, 09:56 PM

I'm pretty sure I have the latest itunes 8.1.1 (or what ever) and all I to is make the acc file and drag it to the desktop also try consider using wavepad that program is free and eill convert to acc as well.

Anything for that matter that converts to acc will work

I got it to work on my windows version via vmware. Just an extra step no biggie but I did get it to work.

Thank you very much for the tip!

Acronym

Jan 9, 2009, 11:49 PM

Glad I could help

Mystikal

Jan 10, 2009, 04:16 AM

Had my phone since tuesday and ive already made 19. Im addicted.

rhett7660

Jan 10, 2009, 11:30 AM

Had my phone since tuesday and ive already made 19. Im addicted.

It does get addicting. Me and wife have been making them since yesterday and our phones are loading up. This is a very cool thing!

Acronym

Jan 10, 2009, 11:37 AM

Then my evil plan to control you and your iPhones through ringtones is working! Go my drones play your ringtones disrupt classes and meetings all across the world. Muahahaha MUAHAHAHA

Glad you guys are having fun with it I always make my ringtones according to my contacts personality for example my mothers ringtone is the imperial march from star wars cause that's what mothers do, they give the imperial order

rhett7660

Jan 10, 2009, 11:40 AM

Then my evil a to control you and your iPhones through ringtones is working! Go my drones play your ringtones distupt classes and meetings all across the world. Muahahaha MUAHAHAHA

Glad you guys are having fun with it I always make my ringtones according to my contacts personality fir eg my mothers ringtone is the imperial march from star wars cause that's what mothers do, they give the imperial order

Ha.. mine too. Wife gave me a dirty look but hey. Of course mine isn't because they give the imperial order... ha :D

Acronym

Jan 17, 2009, 02:07 PM

Ha.. mine too. Wife gave me a dirty look but hey. Of course mine isn't because they give the imperial order... ha :D

haha good stuff hey incase you and others wanted to know within the next hour or so i will have added a guide on creating custom sms tones.

Acronym

Jan 28, 2009, 10:13 AM

just to let people know i put up a custom sms tone guide infact it should be the post below this one

rednano74

Jan 31, 2009, 08:30 PM

I don't have that create ACC version option. :(

I downloaded Iringer instead. An amazing little program to create ringtones in a snap.

djb5118

Jan 31, 2009, 09:11 PM

sweet writeup! i may have to look into this!:D

Acronym

Jan 31, 2009, 09:44 PM

sweet writeup! i may have to look into this!:D

i have so many ringtones its rediculous

but even more rediculous i know someone who has made 1009 ringtones (mostly from request though :D)

Acronym

Feb 11, 2009, 12:07 AM

anyone have any ringtones they'd like to share? im always cuious as to what others are using

Trint Eastwood

Mar 26, 2009, 05:39 PM

Acronym

Apr 19, 2009, 01:04 AM

Hi, I am a newbe. I'm on OS X and my i-tunes is 8.1. I am trying to follaw the steps to make ring tones for my i-phone but I don't understand how to get the .wav file to a ACC thingy boby. I'm a huge Starwars nerd and there is no way I can live without having starwars ringtones! Ok I 'm slightly over reacting but I am quite frustrated. Got my i-phone 4 days ago. I love it, but I would love to love it more! hanks for any help.:(

behold i bring you links from one of my other posts

RINGTONES

Ringtone Pack 1 (http://www.2shared.com/file/4864340/55fc80f3/230_m4r_and_mp3_ringtone_CBR900RR.html)

Ringtone pack 2 (http://www.2shared.com/file/4864341/22fbb065/Coach_Hines_Ringtone_Pack.html)

Ringtone pack 3 (http://www.2shared.com/file/4864379/70d6b94/Ringtones.html)

not all of them were made or found by me FYI and my computer is still out

my sister has a laptop though im gonna see about making some on there and how that goes

Tilt

Sep 15, 2009, 07:53 AM

:D I know this thread is kind of old but I have to say this was easy to follow to get some of my custom ring tones on my phone. I've had a touch for about a year now and the wifey and I just took the plunge and got our new Iphones this makes receiving new calls more bareable thanks OP.

Acronym

Sep 15, 2009, 07:15 PM

maddyyyx

Sep 21, 2009, 08:38 AM

hi, when i did this it came up in ringtones on my itunes
but i have no idea how to make it a ringtone on my iphone, as it doesnt appear on my actual phone.. help?

Acronym

Sep 21, 2009, 09:41 AM

hi, when i did this it came up in ringtones on my itunes
but i have no idea how to make it a ringtone on my iphone, as it doesnt appear on my actual phone.. help?

How long are your ringtones anything more then 40 seconds won't show up when put on the phone. Also try manually dragging them onto your phone instead of syncing them and add them to iTunes first then add them to your iPhone. Also make sure there is no excess information, and one last thing if your running iTunes 9.0 I'm not sure how ringtones are effected I didn't upgrade to 9.0

Justin.MTT

Oct 14, 2009, 11:08 PM

Just wanted to say thanks! :)

Acronym

Oct 15, 2009, 01:11 AM

glad i could be of some help :)

Otsirc

Oct 19, 2009, 06:09 AM

glad i could be of some help :)

Sorry to bump this thread, I just have a quick question.

When I move the AAC version from iTunes to the desktop, and rename it, the file type doesn't convert.

So for example, I'll bring "Fix Up, Look Sharp" by Dizzee Rascal onto the desktop.

I rename it from "Fix Up, Look Sharp" to "Fix Up, Look Sharp.m4r" but when I look at the properties of the song it says "Name: Fix Up, Look Sharp.m4r m4a" or something along those lines.

Thanks for an excellent topic though, Acronym! Well done :D

Acronym

Oct 20, 2009, 03:12 AM

Sorry to bump this thread, I just have a quick question.

When I move the AAC version from iTunes to the desktop, and rename it, the file type doesn't convert.

So for example, I'll bring "Fix Up, Look Sharp" by Dizzee Rascal onto the desktop.

I rename it from "Fix Up, Look Sharp" to "Fix Up, Look Sharp.m4r" but when I look at the properties of the song it says "Name: Fix Up, Look Sharp.m4r m4a" or something along those lines.

Thanks for an excellent topic though, Acronym! Well done :D

thanks, I figured I'd save people time and hopefuly avoid a billion posts on "how do I make iPhone ringtones?" but mods don't sticky it so these bumps are good for new comers to see it, especialy with up to date posts on peoples semi-frequently asked questions.

And now to your problem.

It's an easy mistake made by many I'm sure, (I know I made it first time round), what you need to do is set the file extensions to be shown, not sure how to do it on a mac (maybe someone can tell us) but if you set the file extensions to be shown, as described in the guide it will change the format accordingly.

So what this means is when extentions are shown the file will look like this

ringtone.m4a ------ the files format is shown ie .mp3 .aiff .wav etc

where as if the show extensions prefence is turned off it will look like this

ringtone (nothing else no exstentions).

Otsirc

Oct 20, 2009, 08:47 AM

thanks, I figured I'd save people time and hopefuly avoid a billion posts on "how do I make iPhone ringtones?" but mods don't sticky it so these bumps are good for new comers to see it, especialy with up to date posts on peoples semi-frequently asked questions.

And now to your problem.

It's an easy mistake made by many I'm sure, (I know I made it first time round), what you need to do is set the file extensions to be shown, not sure how to do it on a mac (maybe someone can tell us) but if you set the file extensions to be shown, as described in the guide it will change the format accordingly.

So what this means is when extentions are shown the file will look like this

ringtone.m4a ------ the files format is shown ie .mp3 .aiff .wav etc

where as if the show extensions prefence is turned off it will look like this

ringtone (nothing else no exstentions).

Awesome man, you're the best! Thanks :))

Now I just to figure out a way of changing the ringtone for ALL of my contacts, so I don't have to go through and do it for each individual contact ^^

Acronym

Oct 20, 2009, 09:50 AM

Awesome man, you're the best! Thanks :))

Now I just to figure out a way of changing the ringtone for ALL of my contacts, so I don't have to go through and do it for each individual contact ^^

haha no problem.

as far as i know it is impossible, i think you might be able to make groups of contacts and set ringtones to groups but I'm not to sure.

Drizz

Jan 1, 2010, 11:29 AM

Does this work on that Mac too? Ive just sold my Vista laptop and got a MBP so before i try i thought id ask if it works. Looked at that iringer and it said you had to buy a bit of software for £60!

Drizz

Jan 4, 2010, 03:54 AM

anyone?

Acronym

Jan 8, 2010, 11:50 AM

Does this work on that Mac too? Ive just sold my Vista laptop and got a MBP so before i try i thought id ask if it works. Looked at that iringer and it said you had to buy a bit of software for £60!

sorry for the late reply most people just use garage band.

but this same meathod or idea should work on a mac.

blake836

Jan 8, 2010, 12:22 PM

This all looks like it takes to long I just use this website completely free and you can change the format of any audio file to a ringtone.

http://audiko.net/

Drizz

Jan 9, 2010, 03:31 PM

sorry for the late reply most people just use garage band.

but this same meathod or idea should work on a mac.

Is there a how to on the garageband way? ive not used the program as yet...

Drizz

Jan 10, 2010, 08:28 AM

Is there a how to on the garageband way? ive not used the program as yet...

sussed it!

oliviasmith

Jan 11, 2010, 04:02 AM

hey nice cover haha you and wanted to know the next hour, so I added a
guide to creating custom SMS tones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :)

ChristianDeRoss

Feb 13, 2010, 09:29 AM

Hey everyone, im kinda stuck, i can only make a ringtone if i select the first 30 secs of a song and it won't let me do it if i select something like 1:17-1:47.

Please help!

Acronym

Feb 14, 2010, 09:11 PM

Hey everyone, im kinda stuck, i can only make a ringtone if i select the first 30 secs of a song and it won't let me do it if i select something like 1:17-1:47.

Please help!
it will let you go from any desired spot. you can actualy make it upwards of 37 seconds.

hey nice cover haha you and wanted to know the next hour, so I added a
guide to creating custom SMS tones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :)

:P i already have a guide for sms tones, its in my signature.

dowbrandon

Nov 22, 2010, 11:34 AM

What about using http://www.brinked.com - You can just download those 30 second ringtones for free and then sync iphone w/ itunes

Dhelsdon

Jan 19, 2011, 09:40 PM

Sorry to bump an old(ish) thread, but I've gotten my ringtone in iTunes showing up under the ringtones menu, synced it to my phone but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to find it on my phone.

Acronym

Jan 20, 2011, 02:42 PM

dizmonk

Feb 10, 2011, 08:45 AM

Acronym

Feb 22, 2011, 01:59 PM

Okay I think I did everything correctly in making a custom ringtone. It syncs in Itunes. When I check it in the phone settings it sounds fine. But when it's selected as the ringtone and someone calls me nothing happens. I get no sound at all...

Is it me? Or am I missing something??

thanks.

does it play properly in itunes? and you can see it on your phone? how long is your ringtone? I have had ringtones skip your best bet may be to just remake the ringtone.