You have a shiny new iPhone, and you want custom ringtones on it. You right-click your favourite song and do “Make Ringtone”…. Nothing. You can only use purchased songs.
OK you say, a buck ninety-nine for my bestest fav song in the world as my ringtone is fair. So you buy from iTunes, right click to make a ringtone aaaand… Nothing.
Too bad, you’re outside the US. No ringtone for you.
Or is there?
Here’s a way to make custome iPhone ringtones from music in your library just using iTunes.
1. Find the song you want.
2. Figure out which 30-second chunk will be the ringtone.
3. Right-click in iTunes on your song a select Get Info.
4. Look for the Start and End boxes, enter in minutes and seconds the start time of the chunk, and the end time, click OK.
Remember it *MUST* be 30 seconds or less.
5. Right-click again, this time select “Create AAC Version”.
If you don’t see “AAC”, go to Edit>Preferences find Import Settings and change the type to AAC.
6. You should now see a 30-second (or less, whatever) song with the same name. Drag it to your desktop.
7. Delete the short version from your iTunes library, say yes to delete the file.
8. Rename the file you dragged to your desktop so that it has a .m4r extension instead of .m4a
9. Drag it back to where it says “Library” above your playlists.
10. Sync your iPhone and enjoy your custome ringtoney goodness.
I got this process from a CNet video, embedded below for your perusal.
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