Once I activated my Iphone, I decided to see about getting some ringtones and I found out that not only do you have to pay for the song ($0.99) you also have to pay to create a ringtone ($0.99).
Well after searching around the internet, i came across several websites on how to create your own ringtones for free.
I also have several colleagues who own Iphones that didn't know this was possible so I created this cheat sheet to help them and anyone else who is interested in creating their own ringtones.
How to create ringtones for the Iphone
- Add the song to itunes.
- Right-click the song and select “Get info”
- Click the “Options” tab.
- Select the start time and end time (song can only be between 30 & 40 seconds long) and click ok.
- Right-click on the song again and select “Convert Selection to AAC”.
- Create a folder on the desktop called “Ringtones”.
- Copy the song and place it on the “Ringtones” folder.
- Go to the “Ringtones” folder and click Tools > Folder Options and click the “View” tab.
- Uncheck the box titled "Hide extensions for known file types".
- Right-click the song and select “Rename”, replace the "m4a" extension of your ringtone with "m4r".
- Confirm when the dialog asks if you really want to make the change.
- Double-click the ringtone or add the file to itunes.
- Sync your Iphone and select ringtone tab to select which ringtones you want.
- Done.
Hope this can work out as best for you that it did for me.
- Highlighted part you only have to do this one time.
