Create FREE iPhone ringtones using iTunes 8
With the release of iTunes 8 - which brought with it Genius Playlists - creating iPhone ringtones has once again become a painless process. iTunes 8 allows the user to customize a particular song’s start- and end-time, paving the way for an iPhone ringtone creation “hack” that requires nothing more than iTunes itself.
Keep in mind that iTunes will allow you to create a ringtone from a song downloaded through the iTunes Music Store, but those ringtones come with fees… and no one likes fees. Follow this guide to create free iPhone ringtones for free using nothing more than iTunes.
To create simple, free iPhone ringtones from your iTunes library, follow these steps:
1.Fire up iTunes 8
2.Find the song you’d like to turn in to a ringtone
Select the song you want to use as your iPhone ringtone
3.Right click on the song
Select “Get Info”
4.Hit the “Options” tab
5.Check both the “Start Time” and “End Time” boxes
6.Specify what time interval you’d like to use as your ringtone clip
7.Click “OK”
Make sure the song you want is still highlighted
8.Click on “Advanced” in your menu bar
9.Select “Create AAC Version” or “Create Apple Lossless Version”
You want to create a duplicate song file with the customized playing time
10.A duplicate copy of your song will appear in iTunes - this new song will have the same filename but shorter “Time”
Go back to the original song and uncheck those “Start Time” and “End Time” boxes
11.Drag the duplicate song to your Desktop
12.Once the duplicate song is copied to your Desktop, delete the duplicate file in iTunes
13.On your Desktop, rename the file with the “.m4r” file extension - Use the new extension
14.Your “songname.m4a” file should now be named “songname.m4r”
15.Drag the newly renamed .m4r (songname.m4r) file back into iTunes
16.Drag the file over the “Library” column and release when “Library” becomes highlighted
17.You should see your new ringtone under “Ringtones” in iTunes
18.Sync your iPhone to get jiggy with your new iPhone ringtones!
Now Enjoy your iPhone ringtone library!
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