Man this seems dumb, but I can't find out how to get ringtones on the iPhone 3G. The User Guide didn't really say, it mentioned iTunes. So I opened up iTunes and went into the Ringtones section, and nothing was there. Can you use a WAV or MP3 file as a ringtone? How?
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How do you get ringtones?
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Download them here in iphone format, http://audiko.net/en.html
Click the Ringtones tab on iPhone in itunes.. sync selected
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Click the Ringtones tab on iPhone in itunes.. sync selected
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if you have a mac - you can make your own for free from any non-DRM songs you have. all you need is garageband and some instructions.
or to do it via PC for free, use my instructions as posted in the "iphone tips, help and troubleshooting" section of the forum
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/611824/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/611824/
Thanks for the post. It's easy to follow and I now have one DOPE ringtone!
Is it the theme that plays when you battle a wild Pokémon in Red/Blue? Because if it's not, it's not as DOPE as mine.
Thanks for the post. It's easy to follow and I now have one DOPE ringtone!
glad i could help (provided you were thanking me)
Here are those instructions! I followed them and it worked great. http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/08/tuaw-tip-make-iphone-ringtones-with-garageband/
The following sites also have a lot of ringtones for enhancing your iPhone:
http://www.myxer.com
http://nakko.com
http://www.myxer.com
http://nakko.com
I also use iTunes to make ringtones
I still have an older version of Garageband, which doesn't seem to be able to make ringtones. But I'm able to use iTunes to make my custom ringtones. Just Google for the instructions if you want to learn how.
I still have an older version of Garageband, which doesn't seem to be able to make ringtones. But I'm able to use iTunes to make my custom ringtones. Just Google for the instructions if you want to learn how.
Using iTunes, I can right-click on a song and select "Create Ringtone," but then I get an error message saying something like "you can only create a ringtone from a song purchased on iTunes Store." I use GarageBand which IMO is more flexible anyway, but I'm curious how one gets around it.
You get info on the song, choose 30 seconds that you want, convert to AAC, go into your iTunes folder, rename the .m4a to .m4r, reimport to iTunes.
I do it in Garageband. Very easy to do. I also add my own fading at the beginning and end of the ringtones.
if you have a jailbroken phone download phonezap in cydia. It works pretty good puts them into your iphone's default list of ringtones.
You mean like this?
http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/07/29/how-to-use-itunes-to-create-a-ringtone-for-your-iphone/
I guess it will work. The only issue is that you cannot let the ringtone fade in or out, which can easily be done with GarageBand.
For a Mac...
1) Pick your song you want to turn into a ringtone in iTunes.
2) Right click>Get Info or File>Get Info or Apple>I.
3) Go to Options when the Get Info window opens.
4) Click the check boxes to initiate Start and Stop time, manually entering the start and finish time of the song you want as a ringtone.
5) Now, hit Okay.
6) Next, go to Advanced>Create AAC Version, this will create a copy of the song, but just the portion you want as a ringtone.
7) The copy will be right under the original in iTunes, you will see the difference in times with the selection you chose should be at a ringtone length, like :30 seconds or so. Right-click on the selection and choose Show in Finder, or File>Show in Finder, it should be an m4a file.
8) Simply click on the file name to edit it and change it to an m4r, this will change it into a ringtone to be recognized by iTunes.
9) Go back to iTunes, find the short selection of the song that you converted to a ringtone and drag it out of iTunes to your desktop.
10) This will make a copy of it, so it should now be in your iTunes and desktop. Then, back in iTunes, delete the selection you just moved to the desktop.
11) Double-click on the file you dragged to your desktop and it should open up and play in the "Ringtones" section of your iTunes.
12) Sync.
It seems long and drawn out, but once you do it once or twice and get the hang of it, it takes about a minute.
1) Pick your song you want to turn into a ringtone in iTunes.
2) Right click>Get Info or File>Get Info or Apple>I.
3) Go to Options when the Get Info window opens.
4) Click the check boxes to initiate Start and Stop time, manually entering the start and finish time of the song you want as a ringtone.
5) Now, hit Okay.
6) Next, go to Advanced>Create AAC Version, this will create a copy of the song, but just the portion you want as a ringtone.
7) The copy will be right under the original in iTunes, you will see the difference in times with the selection you chose should be at a ringtone length, like :30 seconds or so. Right-click on the selection and choose Show in Finder, or File>Show in Finder, it should be an m4a file.
8) Simply click on the file name to edit it and change it to an m4r, this will change it into a ringtone to be recognized by iTunes.
9) Go back to iTunes, find the short selection of the song that you converted to a ringtone and drag it out of iTunes to your desktop.
10) This will make a copy of it, so it should now be in your iTunes and desktop. Then, back in iTunes, delete the selection you just moved to the desktop.
11) Double-click on the file you dragged to your desktop and it should open up and play in the "Ringtones" section of your iTunes.
12) Sync.
It seems long and drawn out, but once you do it once or twice and get the hang of it, it takes about a minute.
No biggie, man... I did that like a year ago for another thread so I just copy-pasted it. I wanted to just put SEARCH as my post, but I figured this was nicer and more appropriate.
No one seems to like this way because it seems to long, but I spelled it out for someone that's never seen a computer before. I like this way more than anything else, nice and quick.
It does seem like a long process, but I'm sure it'll be your second nature once you've converted a few songs to ringtones that way. Like I said, the only issue with that method is that you cannot seem to let the ringtone fade in/out... unless I'm mistaken.