iPhone and Ringtones

Yesterday we went and picked up a new phone for Linda. She wanted to step into the technical age and get a "high tech" phone. In my mind there was only one choice, the iPhone. WOW! This thing is as awesome as all the hype makes it out to be. There is an application for everything. Plus, the majority of them are FREE! The only downside I found was the ringtones. You have to buy them from iTunes and cannot make them yourself, or so I thought. With a quick Google search I found that you can create them in iTunes, with a little bit of manipulation. Here is what you do.

1. Open iTunes and locate a song you want to make into a ringtone.


2. Listen to the song and determine what clip you want to be the ringtone. It must be less than 30 seconds. Make note of the start and stop times.


3. Right click on the song and go to Get Info.


4. Under the Options tab, you can adjust the start and stop times of the song. Enter the start and stop time of your clip.


5. Listen to the song again to verify this is the correct start/stop times. If not, repeat steps 3 through 5.


6. Right click on the song and go to Create ACC Version.


7. After iTunes completes converting the file, right click on the newly created file and go to Show In Windows Explorer.


8. Move this file from where it is, to your desktop.


9. In iTunes, right click on the newly created file again and delete it. This will remove the clip from iTunes, but won't remove the file that you put on your desktop.


10. The file that was moved is a .m4a file. Rename this file to a .m4r extension.


11. Move the .m4r file back to your iTunes folder, or just add it back to iTunes.


12. Once moved, it will show up under Ringtones and you can copy it to your iPhone.

If you want to take that same file and make it into an MP3 ringtone, try out www.media-convert.com This worked really well for me. You will need to change the file back to a .m4a by changing the extension then just follow the directions on the website.