Tired with the standard iPhone ringtone? Have you ever think of having your favourite song as your iPhone’s ringtone? Yap, you can have it with no special software. You can simply use iTunes version 8.0 or later, and follow this few simple steps. After reading and follow this few steps below, you will have your favorite song as a ringtone for your iPhone.
The most important is you can have it for free!
The first step: Choose one of your favorite song that has already been in the iTunes Library and then hear and determine in which part of the song that you want to make it as a ringtone. You need to specify the start time and stop time of the ringtone. To be noticed, that you can only cut the song and turn it into ringtone with a maximum duration of 30 seconds! After successfully determine the favorite songs you want use it as a ringtone, right click your mouse on the song title in your iTunes Library. Select “Get Info”.
After this, box will appear on your screen. Choose “Options” on top of the box. After choosing “Options”, you will find the “Start Time” and “Stop Time” box. Tick the check sign on the small box. After that, you should fill the start timing of the ringtone on the “Start Time” box. For example, when you listen to your favorite songs, you already determine that the ringtone will be started in the first minute and 20th seconds, then you will fill it with the “Start Time” 1:20. Then, for the “Stop Time” fill it with maximum time 1:50, since you can only cut the track with the maximum duration of 30 seconds to turn it into ringtone. After you have finished filling the “Stop Time” box, click the “OK” button at the bottom of the box.
Step two: After the box is closed what you need to do is change it’s format into AAC. Just simply choose the “Advanced” menu bar located at the top of your iTunes.
Then choose “Create AAC Version”. Once the process is finish, the song that was cut earlier in the Library will appear with time in accordance with our wishes. Since we cut it with a duration of 30 seconds then select your favorite song that is written 0:30 in the time column. Once you select the 30 seconds song file, drag & drop the file to a new folder or to your desktop. Once the file appears on the desktop / new folder, change the file extension from filename.m4a become filename.m4r. If the message box appears, select “Yes”. After the rename process is complete, delete the 30 seconds song file in your iTunes Library by pressing the Delete button on your keyboard.
If you can not change extensionnya, try to open “Tools” menu bar in your Windows Explorer, select “Folder Options”. Once you have entered into the “Folder Options”, scroll it down and uncheck the “Hide Extensions for Known File Types” box.
Third Step: Once the 30 seconds song file is deleted, enter the m4r file into iTunes Library in the Ringtones panel by draging & dropping it on “Ringtones” panel. If you successfully copy the m4r file into ringtones panel, the last step you need to do is synchronize your iPhone with iTunes.
Done! Now you have your own music ringtone.
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