How to create a ringtone for your iPhone to iTunes

This material written by our reader Anton Andruschenko.

Everyone knows that the box of the iPhone can not use the library files as ringtones, and all the user's choice comes down to the list of 25 standard. How to create ringtones for the iPhone in the iTunes?. One solution: use Store'om and buy ringtones out there, but today I would like to share a simple way to make a ringtone from any song that is present in your iTunes library.

The instructions below describe the process of creating a ringtone in iTunes 11 for Mac OS, in other matters, the procedure should not be radically different for the 10-second versions and suitable for Windows users.

1) When you open the iTunes, select a song, call the context menu, click on «Get Info»

2) In the window that appears, go to the tab «Options», setting the time space of the song that will be used for the ringtone. Checked, it works for 30-second intervals.

3) We click OK.

4) Call the context menu on the song you just edited, choose the item: «Create AAC Version».

4.1) If you can not find the «Create AAC Version» menu, you should change the iTunes import settings, to do this, go to the «iTunes → Preferences», on the «General» tab, we click the button «Import Settings ...»

In the window that opens, select the required encoder us: AAC Encoder

We click «OK». Now, in the context menu for the songs we perform «Create AAC Version».

5) next to the original songs we will have a copy of it lasting for 30 seconds. Call the context menu on it, we click «Show in Finder» (for Windows item will be called «Show in Explorer» users). In the window that opens, rename the resulting file, change the extension from m4a to m4r.

Open the resulting file using iTunes: it is automatically recognized as a ringtone. This is possible would have to stop, connect the iPhone and transfer results. But before that I recommend to restore order:

1) Remove the shortened song from your iTunes library, choose the «Keep File», in the pop-up window.

2) Remove temporal limitation on the source file (see. Step №1).

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