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How To Create Free Ringtones And Alert Tones For Your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Oct 19, 2011 | Comments (11)

Last week, along with the launch of iOS 5 and iCloud, Apple also launched the Tune Store, where you can buy ringtones for $1.29 and alert tones for $0.99. The goods news is that the simple ringtone hack that was discovered almost four years back still works with the latest version of iTunes, so if you've already purchased the song, you can make a ringtone and an alert tone from it for free. The hack is based on the fact that iTunes differentiates a song file and a ringtone by the file extension. While we all know that the song file extension was AAC; the file extension for ringtones is "M4R". All you need to do is take an m4a file, which is DRM free and not more than 30 seconds, rename it to m4r and add it to iTunes. You can check out this step by step guide to create free custom ringtones for your iPhone using iTunes:

In iTunes, right click on the song from which you want to create a ringtone or alert tone and select Get Info. 2. Go to the options tab and go down to the Start Time and Stop Time check boxes. Check both boxes and input the time you want your ringtone to start/stop (it should not be more than 30 seconds for Ringtones and ideally 1-3 seconds for Alert tones). Click OK when youre done. 3. Right click on your newly clipped song and select Create AAC Version The song will be reencoded using the start and stop times determined (If your menu item does not read Convert Selection to AAC and reads Convert Selection to MP3 (or some other format) please go to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > Importing and change the Import Using drop down menu to AAC Encoder). 4. After the song is done encoding navigate to your iTunes Music folder, locate your song (for Mac users - right click on the clipped song in iTunes and click on Show in Finder), and drag it to your desktop. After the song is on your desktop go back to iTunes and delete the clipped version from you iTunes library (It wont delete it from your desktop, it will only remove it from iTunes). 5. Go back the song on your desktop and right click on your song and choose Get info. Go to the name and extension section and change the extension from .m4a to .m4r (or you can just change the extension right from your desktop) 6. After the extension is changed simply double click on the file to add it to your iTunes library. It should show up under the ringtones section. Then sync your iPhone. 7. You should now be able to change the ringtone to the new one by going to Settings > Sounds > Ringtone or use it also as a Alert tone for a New Mail or as the Text Tone by going to Settings -> New Mail -> Ringtone. The new ringtone should show up under Ringtones. Tap on it to set it as your default ringtone or alert tone for a specific notification. Please let us know how it goes in the comments section below.

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11 Responses to How To Create Free Ringtones And Alert Tones For Your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

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Kwopau says:

October 19, 2011 at 2:14 pm

Awesome, I cant wait to try this:D Reply

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Macca says:

October 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

Ive been doing this for ages. you can also change the file extension to .m4b to create an audiobook Reply

amen says:

October 19, 2011 at 2:45 pm

thats great ! thnx info Reply

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wbruno says:

October 19, 2011 at 2:43 pm

I did that on an iPhone 4s recently and I cant share the ringtone with the phone Help please!!! Reply

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Grizzle says:

October 19, 2011 at 2:50 pm

See this why JB is still great because Anyring will let you use ANY music in your iPod for ringtones just other phones. I mean I thought buying ringtones was a thing of the past now. I guess Apple is still in the past but killing it with futuristic products lol Reply

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fas says:

October 19, 2011 at 3:06 pm

Apple should let iTunes music be used as ringtones. Reply

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Abel says:

October 19, 2011 at 3:31 pm

Is this only for iOS 5? Ive been creating ringtones for years, but alert tones are always the same few options. Reply

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Breezy says:

October 19, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Download RMaker from the app store and you can create ringtones on the iPhone from any song in your library There is a paid and free version. I use the free version and it works great! Reply

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Luis Hernandez says:

October 19, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Cool but there is another way thats pretty easy using Iringer. Its awesome and very easy to use! Reply

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Randall says:

October 19, 2011 at 8:33 pm

When I get it to my desktop and right click the song I dont have the option get info Reply

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Teaike says:

October 20, 2011 at 12:37 am Well Ive been making custom tones from my own songs using GarageBand and using mixer.com. Now I can just use the same ones or make new ones for alerts

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