Ringtones

Apple iPhone - Ringtones

I have searched the messages and could not find an answer to my problem, Which is I purchased two ringtones from T-Tunes and can sync to my iPhone. They show up in the iPod, Album folder but I cannot get them into the ringtone folder so I may use them as a ringtones.

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Where do they show in iTunes? If they are not in Ringtones they probably have the wrong filename extension. Choose one, right-click > Get Info and see what it is. It should be .m4r.

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Yeah. And if it's an m4a, just rename the extension to m4r.

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Can we create our own ringtones by changing the extension?

Lik if I have a song which I want to have as my ringtone, then can I do it by just changing the extension.

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Convert it to AAC (m4a) first. Then change the extension to m4r. But you have to trim it to not more than 40 seconds first.

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It looks like a lot of steps but it is really easy.

1. If you don't use the default import encoder, change Preferences > General > Import Settings > Import Using to AAC Encoder.

2. Choose your track and play it to decide the start and stop times. The duration can be anything up to 40 seconds.

3. Right-click > Get Info > Options to change the Start and Stop times to what you decided in (2). You can be precise to 0.001 secs if you want. Play this to make sure you've got what you want.

4. Right-click > Create AAC Version. This creates an edited version containing only what's between the Start and Stop times.

5. Right-click > Get Info > Summary to find the location of the edited version (not really necessary as it will be exactly adjacent to the original track in the iTunes Media > Music > Artist > Album folder).

6. Delete the edited version from iTunes but keep the file.

7. Navigate to the file using Finder or Windows Explorer and change the filename extension from m4a to m4r.

8. Either double-click the m4r file or iTunes > File > Add to Library to add it back to iTunes. It will go into Ringtones, not Music, and the file will move to the Ringtones folder.

9. Get Info > Options on the original track to change the Start and Stop times back to the defaults. You can do this at any point after (4).

10. Repeat 2-9 for your other ringtones.

11. Sync the phone to transfer your ringtones.

12. If you don't use the default import encoder, change Preferences >
General > Import Settings > Import Using back to your usual one.

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Or download the free Ringtone Maker app.