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Ringtones on the iPhone

November 17th, 2007 by Wheelz

Before i bought my iPhone i read alot about what you could and couldn’t do with it.  One of the issues I kept reading about what how you couldn’t put your own ringtones on it and had to either buy them from itunes or else use the inbuilt ones.  This was a little disheartening as I like to have my own on there but oh well, it wasn’t going to stop me from getting one.

Anyway, now I’ve been searching a little more on things i’ve found a way to put your own tunes on your iphones as ringtones and here it how to do it.

  1. first decide what piece of music you want and use something like SoundBooth to take a 30 second segment of it and save it as an aac (m4a) file.
  2. in windows explorer make sure you have the filename showing  and then just change the extention from m4a to m4r
  3. just double-click on the new file and it will add it into iTunes as a ringtone.
  4. Now simply sync it to your iphone then go into settings > sounds > ringtones  and then select your new custom ringtone.

And thats it.  Any sound file you want can be turned into a ringtone by following the above steps.