Bigpineguy Retired
06-11-2011, 03:47 PM
Go into your itunes preferences, and make sure you are using the AAC encoder. You can double-check this by going to “Advanced”, then “Importing”. Now, browse to the song you want to use to create your ringtone. Right click on the file, and choose “Get Info”, then “Options”. Under the Options tab, select the start time and stop time, to create a 30 second clip. Once your 30 second clip is selected, right-click the song and choose “Convert Selection to AAC”.
Once the conversion is completed, you will get a 30 second song of the same name. At this point, you can edit the original file back to its normal length. Now, browse to your iTunes music folder. Mine was in My Documents/itunes/music. You should find the new clip in the same folder the full-length song is in. Notice that the clip has an extension of .m4a. Simply rename the extension to .m4r, then select it. It will automatically be added as a ringtone in your iTunes library.
Note, If you have any problems changing the file extension, make sure that you are seeing the entire file extension name...ie.. "smile.m4a" , if not go into control panel, folder options, and uncheck "hide file extensions for known file types". That should take care of it....This is free, Legal, and doesn't require Jailbreak, or unlocking ...So, Enjoy~
BPG~
Once the conversion is completed, you will get a 30 second song of the same name. At this point, you can edit the original file back to its normal length. Now, browse to your iTunes music folder. Mine was in My Documents/itunes/music. You should find the new clip in the same folder the full-length song is in. Notice that the clip has an extension of .m4a. Simply rename the extension to .m4r, then select it. It will automatically be added as a ringtone in your iTunes library.
Note, If you have any problems changing the file extension, make sure that you are seeing the entire file extension name...ie.. "smile.m4a" , if not go into control panel, folder options, and uncheck "hide file extensions for known file types". That should take care of it....This is free, Legal, and doesn't require Jailbreak, or unlocking ...So, Enjoy~
BPG~