so many little work around for such a great phone... Why can't life be easy... why can't I just drag a damn .mp3 file into a folder on my iPhone and call it quits. Damn you Apple!
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Free Custom Ringtones in iTunes 7.4.1
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Well I followed the steps on a full patched iTunes, iPhone and on my PowerMac G5. Namely:
Found my song in iTunes
Set the start and finish to be the length I wanted (15 seconds)
set the import to convert to aac
converted to aac (128kbps)
renamed the track
dragged it to the desktop
deleted from iTunes
renamed to .m4r
clicked and loaded it in iTunes
Killed iTunes
reanmed the .../Ringtones/file.m4r to .m4a
Launched iTunes
Synced
All worked great. It's on the phone. I assigned it as my ring tone, it played when I selected it and then someone called...
Nothing. It plays the stock ringtone.
All is set fine in the phone, but the ringtone selection is just ignored.
Thoughts?
Found my song in iTunes
Set the start and finish to be the length I wanted (15 seconds)
set the import to convert to aac
converted to aac (128kbps)
renamed the track
dragged it to the desktop
deleted from iTunes
renamed to .m4r
clicked and loaded it in iTunes
Killed iTunes
reanmed the .../Ringtones/file.m4r to .m4a
Launched iTunes
Synced
All worked great. It's on the phone. I assigned it as my ring tone, it played when I selected it and then someone called...
Nothing. It plays the stock ringtone.
All is set fine in the phone, but the ringtone selection is just ignored.
Thoughts?
The same thing happened with me. The ringtone gets in iTunes and syncs with the iPhone, it even plays when I tap on it in the ringtone preview when selecting my ringtone, but it doesnt actually use the ringtone i selected when someone calls, it rings as the marimba ringtone. Whats wrong?
You might need to power off your iPhone and turn it back on. Or reboot it -- the simple kind, with no data loss. As a very last ditch effort, you can do a restore in iTunes, which means you do lose data, but so long as you've exported all the iPhone photos you want to keep to your computer, likewise with any purchased songs perhaps bought with another computer but not yet sync'ed with the iPhone's master computer -- I'm not even sure how to do that, really -- it's not a big deal, except some time to do a full sync, as getting all your data back on the iPhone is automated by iTunes.
I'll assume you know how to do all of above or can easily find out.
But first, when I bought a ringtone to try it out... By the way, it's elegant, easy and in my opinion the $.99 price is a bargain for how they offer the service. But when I first tried it out with a custom ringtone, I had my wife call me. I had a personal ringtone set for her contact card, and that superseded the iTunes-bought ringtone that I had set as the master ringtone. So make sure you don't have a personal ringtone set for the person(s) you're having call to test your new ringtone.
I'll assume you know how to do all of above or can easily find out.
But first, when I bought a ringtone to try it out... By the way, it's elegant, easy and in my opinion the $.99 price is a bargain for how they offer the service. But when I first tried it out with a custom ringtone, I had my wife call me. I had a personal ringtone set for her contact card, and that superseded the iTunes-bought ringtone that I had set as the master ringtone. So make sure you don't have a personal ringtone set for the person(s) you're having call to test your new ringtone.
Yeah I couldn't find this thread to update. I did reboot the iphone and all was well. Yeah for the ringtones I'm used to.
Check the Contact listing for the person that called you and see if their is a Ringtone listed under their phone numbers that will override any global ringtone setting.
I have used the following steps with great success using my Windows XP laptop with ringtone files created on my Mac with Grageband. On the Mac, be sure to use the Get Info window to change the name and uncheck the "hide extension" box! If that is checked, you cannot change the extension. Unless you get a warning asking if you want to change the extension, you haven't done it correctly...and be sure to tell it to accept the desired extension change.
Just make sure you follow all of these instructions:
STEPS (6) and (7) are VERY IMPORTANT!
(1) Start with a sound clip of 30 seconds or less saved as an AAC 128 format sound file.
(2) Change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r using the "Get Info" window and unchecking the "Hide Extension" box.
(3) Put .m4r file into \iTunes\iTunes Music\Ringtones folder
(4) Double click on that .m4r file and it should appear and play inside of iTunes under Ringtones.
(5) Go back to the ringtones folder in the finder (\iTunes\iTunes Music\Ringtones) and change the file extension from *.m4r to *.m4a (* = name of ringtone) Remember to use "Get Info" to make sure the "hide extension" box is not checked!
(6) Attempt to play the file again, this time in iTunes (not in the Finder) and it will say that iTunes can’t find the file - this is good!
(7) Press the “yes” button to specify location of the file and double click on the file you just changed
(8) Sync the iPhone with iTunes
Credit for the steps (with some changes I have made for Mac users) goes to:
http://joemaller.com/2007/09/08/make-custom-iphone-ringtones-work-with-itunes-741/#comment-25456
Free Ringtones - Made Easy
1. Open Garageband
2. Create new music project called Ringtone Generator
3. Using your media browser select the iTunes song you want and drag it to create a new track.
* Note you can really use anything in Garageband include loops, jam packs, you name it. By using a generic project you can just keep reusing it forever...
4. Edit the song down to the bit you want.
* I love this over the feature in iTunes. Mainly becuase if I don't like the end result I didn't waste $.99.
5. Once finished with your edits Export the Song to your Disk.
* Download the MakeiPhoneRingTone from iPhone Alley. These guys did a sweet job.
6. Lanuch the app and follow the instructions....it just works from there.
1. Open Garageband
2. Create new music project called Ringtone Generator
3. Using your media browser select the iTunes song you want and drag it to create a new track.
* Note you can really use anything in Garageband include loops, jam packs, you name it. By using a generic project you can just keep reusing it forever...
4. Edit the song down to the bit you want.
* I love this over the feature in iTunes. Mainly becuase if I don't like the end result I didn't waste $.99.
5. Once finished with your edits Export the Song to your Disk.
* Download the MakeiPhoneRingTone from iPhone Alley. These guys did a sweet job.
6. Lanuch the app and follow the instructions....it just works from there.
New windows program for ringtones
Someone wrote a new problem for window it works great check out the link
below you just drop your AAC file onto it and it does all the work for you than you just double click the file and it imports it into itunes and you just sycn it to your phone. Works great on XP and i heard also Vista.
http://tkhere.blogspot.com/2007/09/iringz-tonez-for-your-iphonez.html
Someone wrote a new problem for window it works great check out the link
below you just drop your AAC file onto it and it does all the work for you than you just double click the file and it imports it into itunes and you just sycn it to your phone. Works great on XP and i heard also Vista.
http://tkhere.blogspot.com/2007/09/iringz-tonez-for-your-iphonez.html
Someone wrote a new problem for window it works great check out the link
below you just drop your AAC file onto it and it does all the work for you than you just double click the file and it imports it into itunes and you just sycn it to your phone. Works great on XP and i heard also Vista.
http://tkhere.blogspot.com/2007/09/iringz-tonez-for-your-iphonez.html
Worked fine for me. Is there anything good to use to clip a portion of the sound from the AAC file? This app only seems to take the whole file.
