{"id":5598,"date":"2015-03-12T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2019-03-15T18:55:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:55:25","slug":"how-to-turn-any-song-into-a-cool-iphone-ringtone-mp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/how-to-turn-any-song-into-a-cool-iphone-ringtone-mp3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to turn any song into a cool iPhone ringtone (mp3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to create your own ringtone for your iPhone, and not be limited to what’s available in the iTunes Store?<\/p>\n

I’m with ya! I had a ringtone that I’ve used for a while, and I wanted to put it on my iPhone 6.<\/p>\n

So I did a search and…voila!<\/p>\n

Here’s how to do it:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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  1. Open up iTunes<\/li>\n
  2. Locate the song you want to convert as a ringtone (it must be an mp3 file)<\/li>\n
  3. Right-click<\/em> the song and choose Get Info<\/b><\/li>\n
  4. Click the Options<\/b> tab in the window that pops up<\/li>\n
  5. Tick the Start Time<\/strong> and Stop Time<\/strong> boxes, and enter times for each (no more than 30 seconds apart, as that is the maximum length for a ringtone)
    \nEXAMPLE:<\/b> If you like the beginning of the song, you can use 0:00<\/b> as the start time, and 0:30<\/b> as the end time<\/li>\n
  6. Click OK<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Right-click<\/em> on the song again and select Create AAC Version<\/strong>
    \nNOTE:<\/b> If you don’t see “Create AAC Version”, and instead you see “Create MP3 Version”, then go to ITUNES>PREFERENCES>click the IMPORT SETTINGS button, and change the setting next to “Import Using” from “MP3 Encoder” to “AAC Encoder”, and then click OK, and then click OK again<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. You should immediately see a new 30-second version of the song<\/li>\n
  9. Drag that 30-second version out of iTunes and into the folder of your choice so you have a copy of it<\/li>\n
  10. Delete the 30-second version from iTunes by RIGHT<\/strong>-clicking on it and selecting Delete <\/strong>(you need to delete it from iTunes before you add it back into iTunes as a ringtone; don’t worry, you just saved a copy of it in step 9 above)<\/li>\n
  11. RIGHT<\/strong>-click the original version of the song and select Get Info<\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. Click on the Options<\/strong> tab<\/li>\n
  13. Uncheck<\/strong> the boxes next to Start Time<\/strong> and Stop Time<\/strong><\/li>\n
  14. Click OK<\/li>\n
  15. Open the folder containing the 30-second AAC file you dragged out of iTunes and change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r.
    \nExample: <\/strong>If the name of the file is mycoolringtone.m4a, change the name of it to mycoolringtone.m4r
    \nNOTE FOR PC USERS:<\/strong> If you don’t see the extension in the file name (.m4a), then you’ll have to open Folder Options in Control Panel, uncheck<\/strong> “Hide extensions for known file types,” and the “.m4a” will now appear and you can rename it to “.m4r”<\/li>\n
  16. After you rename it, DOUBLE<\/strong>-click it and it will immediately get added to your iTunes ringtone library<\/li>\n
  17. Now, sync your iPhone to iTunes and make sure your TONES<\/strong> section is set to SYNC ALL<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  18. After you finish syncing your phone to iTunes, go to SETTINGS>SOUNDS>RINGTONE<\/strong> on your iPhone and select your new custom ringtone that you just created!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have you ever wanted to create your own ringtone for your iPhone, and not be limited to what’s available in the iTunes Store? I’m with ya! I had a ringtone that I’ve used for a while, and I wanted to put it on my iPhone 6. So I did a search and…voila! Here’s how to do it:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[529,208,404,32,7],"tags":[765,764,767,766,514],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-2","category-cell-phone-tips","category-iphone-and-mobile","category-iphone-tips","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-convert-mp3-to-iphone-ringtone","tag-convert-song-to-iphone-ringtone","tag-how-to-convert-mp3-to-iphone-ringtone","tag-how-to-convert-song-to-iphone-ringtone","tag-tag1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8493,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions\/8493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}