making ringtones in garageband

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Carbonic

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jul 14, 2008

• #1

Is their a way I can tune the settings to make it sound clear on my iPhone? All my ringtones sound either too loud, and distorted.

After I hit share > send ringtone to itunes, it'll play a preview, and it always sounds like crap.

Ideas?

 

sk8mash

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 14, 2008

• #2

It changes how it sounds so that the iPhone speaker can handle it. I.e cutting out all the nice bass, and leaving lots of mid. I tends to sound good on the iPhone, but bad on the computer because your used to better. It just optimizes it, so its good 🙂

 

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nanvinnie

macrumors regular

• Jul 14, 2008

• #3

Carbonic said:

Is their a way I can tune the settings to make it sound clear on my iPhone? All my ringtones sound either too loud, and distorted.

After I hit share > send ringtone to itunes, it'll play a preview, and it always sounds like crap.

Ideas?

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the way i do it is edit sound files (mp3,wav,whatever) on audacity. then i convert to a wav file and load it into itunes. have itunes convert the files to m4a files. then change the file extension to m4r and it will be a ringtone. just make sure it's less then 40 seconds long or it won't work.

i use audacity as my sound editing program, but you can use whatever you want.

hope this helps, cheers!

 

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slicecom

macrumors 68020

• Jul 14, 2008

• #4

Thats weird, I use Garagaband to make my ringtones, and when I export a song as a ringtone to iTunes, it automatically removes pretty much all bass and adjusts the levels to the ideal volume upon export.

 

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ngmcs8203

macrumors newbie

• Jul 14, 2008

• #5

Using Garageband/Audacity: Is it easier and less buggy than using iTunes. The whole ringtone creator in iTunes is clunky and super buggy.

 

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cartel1

macrumors newbie

• Jul 14, 2008

• #6

nanvinnie said:

have itunes convert the files to m4a files. then change the file extension to m4r and it will be a ringtone. just make sure it's less then 40 seconds long or it won't work.

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I just tried this method and if I do a 'get info' on the track it says the file is a ringtone but it doesn't appear in the 'ringtones' menu in itunes, any ideas why?

I've tried all the suggested methods and the tracks (all under 40 seconds) never appear in 'ringtones.🙁

 

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nanvinnie

macrumors regular

• Jul 15, 2008

• #7

cartel1 said:

I just tried this method and if I do a 'get info' on the track it says the file is a ringtone but it doesn't appear in the 'ringtones' menu in itunes, any ideas why?

I've tried all the suggested methods and the tracks (all under 40 seconds) never appear in 'ringtones.🙁

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hmm... not too sure. at first, it would register as a ringtone on itunes and then it wouldn't sync to my phone, but that's when my files were longer than 40 seconds. it seems you've already taken care of that. sorry.