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So It’s been quite a while since I wrote anything on here… So I’ll rectify that now.

I discovered how easy it was to create ringtones for my iPhone the other day, up until then I thought the only way to do it was to buy them or jailbreak. It’s pretty easy and doesn’t require any third party software.

Here’s How;

1. Open up iTunes and select your track

2. Right click the track and select “get info”

3. Your ringtone will need to be 30 seconds long so click the options tab and use the ‘Start time’ and ‘Stop time’ to select your 30 second snip, then click OK.

4. Right click the track and click ‘Create AAC Version’ – This will create a new file with extension *.m4a leaving your original intact. (so you can remove the start and stop times and sill listen to it)

5. Check the length of the new file to make sure it’s 30 seconds or less.

6. Right click the file and select ‘Show in windows explorer’, once the window opens go back to iTunes.

7. Right click the new file and remove it from iTune but don’t send the file to the recycle bin.

8. Go back to Windows Explorer and change the file extension from ‘*.m4a’ to ‘*.m4r’.
- You might need to goto tools, folder options, view and uncheck ‘hide extensions for known file types’ to be able to do this.

9. Drag your ringtone file into iTunes.

10. Sync your phone and use settings to select and test your new ringtone.

I hope you find this useful.

Bye,
Jon