new iTunes - How to Add Ringtones for FREE

[Acronym]

for all those still looking for ringtones you can look at my signature which has a fairly up to date guide on free custom ringtones via itunes

Since 2.1 whenever I create a new ringtone to add, my phone will sync the same song mulitple times. For instance I'll create 4 ringtones and add them to the ringtones on my phone but after it syncs it will have the same song 4 times.

Anyone know a way around this? Or is anyone else having the same problem?

yes delete all the extra information on the song everything except the name of it, the extra information seems to cause multiple coppies of the ringtone delete it and you should be fine

 

[jetsetville]

thank you!!!

you guys are great! thank you ever so much. cheers.

 

[aerodreamer]

so i've tried this method and it keeps saying that the ringtone cannot be found on my pc. i can see the file in its respective directory. I even added it to itunes' music library.

pls help

thanks

 

[Acronym]

so i've tried this method and it keeps saying that the ringtone cannot be found on my pc. i can see the file in its respective directory. I even added it to itunes' music library.

pls help

thanks

you need to locate it through itunes or delete the ringtone then add it to itunes again

 

[roulette syste]

new iTunes - How to Add Ringtones for FREE

A MacRumors forum member discovered that you can actually get free ringtones directly inside iTunes by just changing around a file extension. All official purchased ringtones have the .M4R extension, so all you have to do is rename any AAC file to a M4R file to get it to show up in iTunes under Ringtones. Sync to your phone and you're done. To delete the ringtones, you may have to go into the Ringtones folder under your iTunes music directory. Zero cents beats 99 cents any day.

 

[jayjay3032]

i just bought an iPhone 3G and when connecting it to my mac iTunes prompted me saying iTunes 8.2 needed to be installed in order for my iPhone to be connected. I downloaded the upgrade and now iTunes can see my iPhone but changing the extension on the AAC files won't work.

Any ideas?

Is there an App that allows mp3 to be used as ringtones?

 

[lyle089]

Update Still works?

Hey I am having the same problem you are just slightly different. I was able to duplicate the file then rename it, then I double clicked it and it went to the ringtones section, I tried it again and it didnt work. And although I was able to get it to the ringtones section my Iphone 3g s wont show that I have the song as my ring tone? maybe to large of a file. Any ideas out there?

 

[-aggie-]

i just bought an iPhone 3G and when connecting it to my mac iTunes prompted me saying iTunes 8.2 needed to be installed in order for my iPhone to be connected. I downloaded the upgrade and now iTunes can see my iPhone but changing the extension on the AAC files won't work.

Any ideas?

Is there an App that allows mp3 to be used as ringtones?

Hey I am having the same problem you are just slightly different. I was able to duplicate the file then rename it, then I double clicked it and it went to the ringtones section, I tried it again and it didnt work. And although I was able to get it to the ringtones section my Iphone 3g s wont show that I have the song as my ring tone? maybe to large of a file. Any ideas out there?

IDK what either of you two are doing wrong. It still works, and there's really no reason for Apple to even stop it from working. I suggest following these steps to the letter:

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=414

http://www.stopgeek.com/make-your-own-ringtones-for-the-iphone-with-just-itunes-for-free.html

 

[purrple]

new itunes ringtone option

Does anyone know how this works? I downloaded some of the songs under the new iTunes ringtone section but they just go to my playlist

 

[Comacoz]

Adjusting Ringtone volume before conversion!

I'm using Itunes version 8.0.0.35. Here's my issue...When I go to convert whatever song i'm using for the ringtone into an AAC file, I lower the volume so it plays better on my iphone. I choose my start and stop time and it converts into an AAC file, that all works great. Now when i drag that AAC file to the desktop to change it from .m4a to .m4r and drag it back into itunes, the volume of the ringtone goes back to the default every time! I cannot figure out why it's not keeping my ringtone volume setting when I import it back into itunes. Has anybody else run into this problem?? I've checked every audio setting in itunes and cannot figure out why when i import the ringtone file back into itunes it goes back to default volume level. Please help!!

 

[girishrane]

Not working for me after latest software updates on 3G phone.. can someone please help?

 

[Tex-Twil]

Hello,
it's not working for me either. I cannot create a AAC file from a mp3 because I do not have this option. I only can recreate a mp3 from my mp3 .. not a aac

Tex

 

[cdcastillo]

Hello,
it's not working for me either. I cannot create a AAC file from a mp3 because I do not have this option. I only can recreate a mp3 from my mp3 .. not a aac

Tex

That's because you have the "importer settings" on itunes set to import in MP3, go change them to AAC and voilá! you got what you want.

For all others: I was using the same method Tex here wanted to try on iTunes 9.0.3, OS X.5.8, and an iPhone 3GS updated on march-2010, and It Works!!

To circumvent the volume problem some other poster mentioned I select ANY song I have (doesn't matter if WAV, MP3 or AAC) and edit the chunk I want on Quicktime, change the volume on it by the "movie properties" menu, and save the new file (.mov file by standard). Then I add the mov to iTunes and make an AAC version, show it on the finder and change the m4a to m4r.

The first times the song didn't showed on the Ringtones menu on iTunes. Then I realized I had to take the aac's out of itunes and add them again once the m4r extension was in place for it to work (I hope I'm making some sense).

 

[rathfels]

I must be doing something way wrong.. In my iTunes Ringtone file I see my ringtones, but when I sync to my iphone the ringtones never show up.. What am I doing wrong?

(yes I do have the files checked to sync..)

 

[Thompsoninc]

iPhone Ringtone Maker

That worked great for me! Finally found the solution thanks to you!

 

[hyma123]

hi ,
anyone help me...i have iphone ringtones in my itune library > ringtone folder but those ringtones are not showing up in my iphone ringtones folder...when we connect it to itunes and the question of sync the ringtones doesnt come....the file extension is.m4r and size is just 210 kb

 

[mavris]

Did you try Blackbox from Miksoft.net? Is very simple! just drag n drop your audio. Also it's convert any media to iPhone format and add it automatically in iTunes lib.
http://www.miksoft.net/blackbox.htm

 

[may76inc]

Do MP3's have to be re-encoded as AAC? Can we just change the extension to MPR? I almost all of my music is in MP3 format.

Creating a ringtone for an iPhone


Converting mp3 ringtone into m4r (Copied from mycellspot.com)

· Drag and drop into iTunes
· Highlight your ringtone and choose advanced (or right click ringtone) then create AAC
version
· Drag AAC version to your desktop
· Open your Control Panel and select Folder Options
· In folder options select the VIEW tab
· Uncheck the box, Hide extensions for known file types and select ok
· Right click and rename the file from .m4a to .m4r
· Example: youringtonename.m4r

This worked great for me good luck

 

[JamesMB]

Creating a ringtone for an iPhone


Converting mp3 ringtone into m4r (Copied from mycellspot.com)

· Drag and drop into iTunes
· Highlight your ringtone and choose advanced (or right click ringtone) then create AAC
version
· Drag AAC version to your desktop
· Open your Control Panel and select Folder Options
· In folder options select the VIEW tab
· Uncheck the box, Hide extensions for known file types and select ok
· Right click and rename the file from .m4a to .m4r
· Example: youringtonename.m4r

This worked great for me good luck

I'm sure you didn't notice but the post that you answered, is almost 4 years old.

 

[ravenfire]

Creating a ringtone for an iPhone


Converting mp3 ringtone into m4r (Copied from mycellspot.com)

· Drag and drop into iTunes
· Highlight your ringtone and choose advanced (or right click ringtone) then create AAC
version
· Drag AAC version to your desktop
· Open your Control Panel and select Folder Options
· In folder options select the VIEW tab
· Uncheck the box, Hide extensions for known file types and select ok
· Right click and rename the file from .m4a to .m4r
· Example: youringtonename.m4r

This worked great for me good luck

I have tried renaming them to .m4r and while I can get the files on my iphone, I am unable to set them as ringtones. In addition there is not a section named ringtones in my itunes. I am running the latest version 10.1.2.

When I go into my contacts and hit edit, then ringtones, the default ones show up. I also tried Audiko that was suggested here, but no luck.

 

[LightSpeed1]

I'm pretty sure everybody with a mac know you can use garageband.

 

[buckstrong70]

OK having a different problem. I made 15 ringtones. 5 of them wont sync because it says that they are too long. I chopped them down to 15 sec and it still comes up with the same error message. all 15 were 30 sec, 10 work and 5 dont. can anyone help? I am on a PC with xp, IPhone 4 and latest Itunes. I used directions from original post.

 

[gusmahler]

Never mind, got it to work.

 

[gngan]

I tried

· Drag and drop into iTunes
· Highlight your ringtone and choose advanced (or right click ringtone) then create AAC
version
· Drag AAC version to your desktop
· Open your Control Panel and select Folder Options
· In folder options select the VIEW tab
· Uncheck the box, Hide extensions for known file types and select ok
· Right click and rename the file from .m4a to .m4r
· Example: youringtonename.m4r

but it doesn't show up in the ringtone tab. The song is only 19seconds long. I am using 10.4 64bit itunes.