After patiently waiting for 2 years, Nicole and I made the jump to AT&T and are both happy iPhone owners. I love everything about my 32GB 3GS and Nicole is very happy with her 3G.
We were a little surprised at the small selection of ringtones that come on the iPhone. I quickly realized the reason may be that Apple charges .99 cents to create a ringtone from a song that you have already purchased!
So I did some poking around and it is actually pretty simple to create a ringtone from any song in your iTunes Library - except those with DRM protection. Now that iTunes no longer sells music locked with DRM, this should not be a huge issue.
I'm working on a Mac, but there is no reason this would not work on a PC.
How I did it:
1. Find your song and write down the time of the beginning and ending of the clip you are wanting to make your ringtone. I stuck with about 20 seconds.
2. Get info on the song file and click on Options. Select start and end time and enter the times you wrote down.
3. Right click the file and choose "Create AAC Version." This will create the small clip of your song.
4. Right click again and choose "Show in Finder." Drag the file to the desktop and delete it from your iTunes library.
5. On your desktop, chenge the file extension to .m4r
6. Add the file to iTunes and it will show up as a ringtone. Sync your iPhone and start using it.
It is as simple as that. Hope it is helpful. Nicole is going to be pretty excited when I tell her about this tomorrow!
I used to do that on our desktop PC. Now that I'm on a Mac I just import the song to Garageband and there's an option to Share or Sens as ringtone. Super easy b/c I hear what it's going to be right then and there.
Posted by: Conner | July 08, 2009 at 09:31 AM