With the various breakthroughs in mobile phones, there is no surprise that people are getting more and more access in view of doing the maximum capacity of their cellular phones, among other is converting MP3 files to iPhone ringtones.
Okay, so you have all of your most favorite songs in MP3 format and obviously, you want to use snippets of them for ringtones on your newly acquired iPhone. You might think this should be simple right? Well, unfortunately, sorry to disappoint you, no it isn’t.
To help you do this, there are a few options that you may look at as outlined below:
- Buy them from the famous Apple iTunes Store for more or less $2.00 a pop
- Purchase any piece of software such as the iToner for about $15.00
If it neither appealed to me as a viable solution as I have practically spent enough on the iPhone and all other available phones now in the market will allow you to import a given MP3 file as a ringtone, but not the fantastic iPhone; because of the fact that it uses Apple’s proprietary .m4r format.
So without any further stuffing around, here then is the procedure to change or convert your MP3 snippets to the iPhone ringtones!:
- Use software such as Audacity to make your new ringtone from your favorite MP3.
- Save the files you downloaded somewhere on your hard disk so that you can access it later on.
- Import the files into iTunes and then simply right click on it
- From the very menu that pops up, you select and left click on ‘Create AAC Version ‘.
- Then, right click on the newly made AAC version of your MP3 and you left click on ‘Show in Windows Explorer’
- You copy this file to another place or location where you can access to the command prompt to do the changes. In Vista, this is important as there can be difficulties doing this due to regulations on permissions and for those not very computer savvy, this is where it gets very tedious and technical.
- Now, in your command prompt window, you type in the following command: rename ringtone.m4a ringtone.m4r
This will eventually create your new ringtone. Now simply click twice the file in Windows Explorer and iTunes then will import it as a ringtone and basically, the next time you synch the phone with iTunes, your ringtone will then be there for your use or is finally available.
While this is simple and easy to do, it’s a major problem for those of us who aren’t technically well-versed. Apple should have made this entire process a lot more simple, then again they would not come up with as much money out of people if that was then the case; it’s just sad and disappointing I guess more than anything.
Still, and thanks to the operators, now you have a way to finally make your ringtones for that shiny new iPhone Note: This works has actually been tested and this works on the new iPhone 3G and iTunes 8 as well.
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