A number of people have written to AppCraver asking how to create a custom ringtone on the iPhone. It’s easy, but not very well documented. Here are the steps:
1. Go to iTunes and open your Music library. In the second column, some of the tracks will have a little bell next to them, indicating a ringtone is available for that track. To see all available ringtones, sort by those with a bell by clicking on the top of the second column.
2. Now move the 15 second ringtone selection by moving the blue selection area to the right.
3. Finally click “Buy”. Yes — even if you own the song, you will still need to buy the ringtone sequence as well.
4. Now connect the iPhone to your Mac or PC. When the iPhone shows up as a device in iTunes drag the ringtone on top of the “iPhone icon”.
5. Now sync your iPhone. The new ringtone will appear in your settings folder, at the very top.
September 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
It takes cojones for Apple to charge you for a 15-second clip of a song THAT YOU ALREADY OWN.
I’ve been too busy (lazy?) to figure out how to do this without having Jobs take his cut. AppCraver, little help?
September 16th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Check out my Tutorial on how to make an iPhone ringtone for FREE on a mac using garageband.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZO44b0nzb4&feature=PlayList&p=1C0D2D1BA84FCC57&index=3
September 16th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Thanks for the YouTube post!!!! Very informative.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Or, if you own a Mac, just open the song in garageband, edit it down to a reasonable amount of time, and save it (share it) as a ringtone.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Of course, all of that is pretty hard if one of your hands is covered with knives ad you live in people’s dreamworlds.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Excellent Info Paul — any interest in contributing an article or two to appcraver?
September 18th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Sure, I could do a couple.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Good stuff, will try it out!
November 25th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
The service I use to convert the mp3s to ringtones (for those songs that are not purchased through itunes which means you can’t make ringtones of them anyway) is:
http://www.mp3-to-m4r.net
Online and simple. It does all the converting for you, and you end up with all your current mp3 ringtones ready for the iphone.
I have to say, paying for a cutdown version of a song I already own is a bit steep. Previously I had just been using audacity to cut sections out of songs to use. But this online tool does pretty much everything I need.
October 1st, 2010 at 1:11 am
Try Ringbuilder, it’s available on the AppStore. For me it’s the best ringtone maker on iPhone cuz more than create ringtones you can share them with friends thanks to BUMP ! I recommend to all.
October 7th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Hey thnks John for this app’, now I can easily create my own ringtones, nice the BUMP !