Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Ringtones on iPhone 3G

I just bought my 3g today and I created a <30 sec. aac file with http://makeownringtone.com/ and renamed it to m4r. I double click it and iTunes opens but I don't see it in the ringtones directory. I try drag and dropping but nothing happens.

Using latest version of iTunes 7.7.0.43 on Vista
 
razorianfly said:
This link cropped up yesterday, and it's literally amazing!

http://audiko.net/en.html

Just upload your choosen song in .Mp3, cut,
and download in .M4r format for iPhone!

I take no credit in finding this, someone posted it yesterday.

R-Fly
Click to expand...

Thanks for reposting this - works awesome for creating custom ring tones and alarm sounds. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to use custom SMS/text sounds? Thanks
 
wsmith82 said:
EDarkness...

I came onto this post becase I myself have just purchased a 3g iPhone today. This system did work for me (as Still24 posted). It could be that you haven't told iTunes to sync your ringtones to your device. While in iTunes with your iPhone plugged in, do the following:

Click your iPhone under the devices tree on the left side of the iTunes menu
Click the tab at the top of the iPhone menu that reads "Ringtones"
Put a checkmark in the option "Sync Ringtones"
and then choose which ones you want to transfer or all of them at once.

I have just done this today on my 3g iPhone with iTunes 7.7.0.43 with no errors. After this your phone syncs, go to your "Settings" menu on the iPhone, choose "Sounds", and then finally "Ringtones". It should now be listed as a "Custom Ringtone".

Hope I could be of some help...
Click to expand...


I've tried that but only the first three ringtones appear in my phone...any ideas?
 
PrinceDraven said:
ok, quick update, got the ringtones directory to show under the library now, BUT it is empty, and even after trying another 5 times of trimming converting, importing the m4r files do not appear there. They just appear to be short music files rather than ringtones.:(
Click to expand...

same here. Over and over the rings don't show up. Even with sync checked. Also on the left side there is no ringtunes tab. So I assume everyone means click "your" iPhone name, then across the top tabs I go to ringtunes, ok. But I don't see any ringtunes that are already on my phone either. Also, when I'm done converting to aac, I hit open in windows explorer and then I rename it to the new extension. Then I go to drag it back to iTunes and it doesn't move over into iTunes or does but will not show up in ringtunes. iTunes 7 is what I'm using.
 
azolla said:
Have you try iPhone ringtone maker, it works very good.
Click to expand...
thats what I'm using. Simple enough although when It asks you to save it as a file name, leaving it as an mp3 or changing the extension to m4, when I click send to iPhone nothing happens. It acts like it did but there's no ringtune added on my phone. I'm stumped!!
 
www.audiko.net.

Free ringtones for iPhone.

Problem solved.

I knew that watching Chris Pirillo's live shows would come in handy one day...
 
Hey criscris, what version of iphone ringtone maker do you have? I think you might have to update it to version 2.5.1. I have it and it's easy to make ringtones, using itunes music. Once you select a song and adjust it to where you want it to start and stop, click make a ringtone, then send to itune. Iphone ringtone maker will transfer the song to your itune ringtone file.



Version 2.5.1 iphone ringtone maker will work with itune 7.7.
 
azolla said:
Hey criscris, what version of iphone ringtone maker do you have? I think you might have to update it to version 2.5.1. I have it and it's easy to make ringtones, using itunes music. Once you select a song and adjust it to where you want it to start and stop, click make a ringtone, then send to itune. Iphone ringtone maker will transfer the song to your itune ringtone file.



Version 2.5.1 iphone ringtone maker will work with itune 7.7.
Click to expand...
im gonna check. Plus I'm running iTunes 7, so I'm assuming I should upgrade to 7.7 as well. Thanks.
 
Saturnos77 said:
I've tried that but only the first three ringtones appear in my phone...any ideas?
Click to expand...

Check to see if they are over 39 seconds. I downloaded a bunch from there that didn't show up on my phone as well - they were all 40 seconds in length, which ended up being a few milliseconds too long for the phone to recognize.

Anything under 40 should work. At least in my experience.
 
Soreo said:
www.audiko.net.

Free ringtones for iPhone.

Problem solved.
Click to expand...
Actually, if you've seen some previous comments in this thread, and speaking for myself, the issue isn't renaming files. It's getting ringtonemaker or iTunes to send them to an iPhone - which although the program says "sent to iphone", it isn't working. Through iTunes alot of us seem stumped as well. Not only is iTunes not showing my preinstalled iPhone rings, it isn't showing anything related to the new files supposedly sent to the phone. The latest iTunes has also made zero difference. And I cannot find a download of the latest ringtonemaker 2.5.1.

If anyone is kind enough to explain what they are using and where to look etc, a step by step would be great!! Thanks!! :)

Anyone?
 
ballen420 said:
Check to see if they are over 39 seconds. I downloaded a bunch from there that didn't show up on my phone as well - they were all 40 seconds in length, which ended up being a few milliseconds too long for the phone to recognize.

Anything under 40 should work. At least in my experience.
Click to expand...

tried that...no luck
 
iRinger is what i use, 30 seconds is all it caps it at, and calls go to voicemail before 30 seconds anyways...i think.
 
I just got my iphone 3g 8gb black, two days ago. Im most likely being a super noob or just over-protective, but i used the method were you only use itunes and change the file name.
It works for me.. my question is would this in anyway void my 1 year factory warranty?
Haha, thanks in advance.
 
Here's a step by step method of what I did -

Okay, I have iTunes 7.7.1.11 and my iPhone 3G is sporting 2.0.1 and this worked for me - I just did this literally minutes ago. I am using Windows Vista.

I made sure that my file extensions were shown (Folder Options -> View) under the "Advanced Settings" box by *UNCHECKING* "Hide extensions for Known File Types"

Then, I went to my iTunes folder on my compy (Start -> Music -> iTunes) and I *CREATED* a folder named Ringtones.

I restarted iTunes and the folder showed up immediately on the left hand side under the "Library" section.

Then, in iTunes, I went to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing and under "Import Using" I selected "AAC Encoder"

I then selected a song to use. I right clicked and selected "Get Info". I then went to "Options" and went down and modified the Start/Stop times as I pleased. I made sure that the length was no longer than 30 seconds and I made sure that both the "Start" and "Stop" boxes were checked.

Once I did that, it went back to the standard screen and I right-clicked the newly modified song and selected "Convert Selection to AAC"

Once it converted I immediately moved that new copy to my desktop. I then *IMMEDIATELY* (this was key for me, folks!) DELETED the COPY (by selecting "Delete" and "Move to the Recycle Bin" for the prompts).

I then put the original back to it's former glory by unchecking the "Start" and "Stop" boxes.

On my desktop I renamed the songs from xxxx.m4a to xxxx.m4r

I double-clicked the renamed file and it opened up in iTunes, under the "Ringtones" folder.

I hooked up my iPhone and synced the ringtones (by selecting the iPhone on the left and then the "Ringtones" tab in that menu) and they were on my iPhone once the syncing was complete.

Congratulations, you have your favorite music in ring tone form!

I know that I have repeated a lot of what was already here, but for me these exact steps are what worked. I did this because I am sure that there are quite a few of you out there who get tired of downloading programs and just want to do it the manual way, just like me. Not that there is anything wrong with 3rd party software, I just found a quick little process and this worked for me just fine. I found that there was no change in sound quality, either.

Thanks to all you out there who figured this out and posted it for the rest of us to use! : D

:apple: Good luck! :D
 
kmay37 said:
Worked GREAT!! Thank you very much!
Click to expand...

I did the same, and everything seemed okay-- it appears in my ringtones folder on itunes, and i have selected to sync with all ringtones, however when it starts to sync it says "Song title" unable to sync, file not found. I'm not sure what this means considering it is in the same folder all of my itunes music is in, and it appears and plays fine from itunes itself.

Any help on this?:confused:
 
platdag said:
Okay, I have iTunes 7.7.1.11 and my iPhone 3G is sporting 2.0.1 and this worked for me - I just did this literally minutes ago. I am using Windows Vista.

I made sure that my file extensions were shown (Folder Options -> View) under the "Advanced Settings" box by *UNCHECKING* "Hide extensions for Known File Types"

Then, I went to my iTunes folder on my compy (Start -> Music -> iTunes) and I *CREATED* a folder named Ringtones.

I restarted iTunes and the folder showed up immediately on the left hand side under the "Library" section.

Then, in iTunes, I went to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing and under "Import Using" I selected "AAC Encoder"

I then selected a song to use. I right clicked and selected "Get Info". I then went to "Options" and went down and modified the Start/Stop times as I pleased. I made sure that the length was no longer than 30 seconds and I made sure that both the "Start" and "Stop" boxes were checked.

Once I did that, it went back to the standard screen and I right-clicked the newly modified song and selected "Convert Selection to AAC"

Once it converted I immediately moved that new copy to my desktop. I then *IMMEDIATELY* (this was key for me, folks!) DELETED the COPY (by selecting "Delete" and "Move to the Recycle Bin" for the prompts).

I then put the original back to it's former glory by unchecking the "Start" and "Stop" boxes.

On my desktop I renamed the songs from xxxx.m4a to xxxx.m4r

I double-clicked the renamed file and it opened up in iTunes, under the "Ringtones" folder.

I hooked up my iPhone and synced the ringtones (by selecting the iPhone on the left and then the "Ringtones" tab in that menu) and they were on my iPhone once the syncing was complete.

Congratulations, you have your favorite music in ring tone form!

I know that I have repeated a lot of what was already here, but for me these exact steps are what worked. I did this because I am sure that there are quite a few of you out there who get tired of downloading programs and just want to do it the manual way, just like me. Not that there is anything wrong with 3rd party software, I just found a quick little process and this worked for me just fine. I found that there was no change in sound quality, either.

Thanks to all you out there who figured this out and posted it for the rest of us to use! : D

:apple: Good luck! :D
Click to expand...

Thank you! I was doing this basically but missing a step or two, now it works.. awesome!
 
Thank You

Still24 said:
You shouldn't need anything other than iTunes.

1. In iTunes, right-click the song you want, go to 'Get Info' and change the start and end points so it's 30 seconds in length.
2. Right-click the song again, 'convert selection to AAC'.
3. Find this new file or drag it from iTunes to your desktop.
4. Rename the file extension from .m4a to .m4r.
5. Import it back into iTunes and it will appear as a ringtone. Tada!

I don't think this works with protected songs downloaded from the iTunes store, but should work with all others.
Click to expand...

This works brilliantly - Thank you very much.

Tom T.
 
parosser said:
Hi, I've tried this, several times....and it just does not appear under Ringtones in iTunes. Can anyone please help!?!?!?!?
Click to expand...

Do you have the Ringtones folder selected on the left side of the ITunes window when you import? Otherwise the ringtone is imported into the library (on a Mac, anyway).

Tom T.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back