| HowTo: Create a ringtone for your iPhone 3G |
| Sunday, August 10, 2008 1:39 PM |
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I use a program called Audacity to create the ringtone.
You can download Audacity here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- Open the .MP3 in Audacity.
- Select the part of the song you want to be your ringtone.
- Try to keep the selection 30 seconds or under.
- Try to keep the selection 30 seconds or under.
- Save it as a "NEW" file.
- File -> Export Selection as .mp3
- Note: You might need the lame_enc.dll for encoding purposes. You can get the .dll here.
- Open iTunes and import the new file.
- Find the song you just imported.
- Right click on new file and choose "Convert to AAC"
- In iTunes, find the newly created .AAC file. Right click on file and choose "Show in windows explorer"
- Rename the file from .m4a to .m4r
- Import the .m4r song into iTunes
- The song will now show up under Ringtones.
- Drag and drop the ringtone to your iPhone.
7 comment(s) so far
Bravo, senor...your directions were great and I created my first ring tone. Thanks for posting the info!
Excellent. Now I feel buying an iPhone was worthwhile. :-)
Thank you sir!
thanks mate, this worked like a charm :)
i can't convert the file, when i right click it doesnt give me the option to convert to aac?
erik, open iTunes and go to Edit > Preferences. On the General tab you'll see a button named "Import Settings..." Click the button and then change the Import Using to "MP3 Encoder"
That should give you the right conversion options.
great! merci les partage!