How To Make Free Ringtones For The iPhone Using iTunes

Here's the deal, I haven't written a blog in a long time, (8 months to be exact.) So I figured I'd do one before the year is up. Nothing big, just a little something to hell some people out. Go easy on me, I'm a little rusty. So here it goes. I realized more and more of my friends are getting iPhones. Can't blame them, it's awesome phone. One of the things they always ask about is creating ringtones. Sure you can pay the $.99 (That's on top of the money you already paid for the song) to iTunes to make the ringtone for you. Or you can follow this step by step tutorial and get them for free. If you're reading this, that means you decided to go the free route, good for you. besides, in this economy, use you can use that extra dollar. So lets get to it.

• Step 1: Add the song you want to make a ringtone into iTunes.
• Step 2: Right click the song and select “Get info” Once the window comes up, click the “Options” tab.
• Step 3: Here you can select the start time and end time for your desired ringtone and click ok.
*Note: Ringotnes can only be between 30 & 40 seconds long*
• Step 4: Right-click on the song again and select “Create AAC Version” This should take a couple of second and you should hear a chime when it's done.
• Step 5: Create a new folder, preferably in you My Documents or Desktop and call it something like “Ringtones”
• Step 6: Drag and drop the newly created song and place it in the newly created “Ringtones” folder.

*Note: Step 7 & 8 you only have to do the first time*
• Step 7: At the top of the “Ringtones” folder, click Tools, select Folder Options and click the “View” tab.
• Step 8: Uncheck the box titled "Hide extensions for known file types" then click ok. Now you should be able to see that the file name has .m4a at the end of it.

• Step 9: Right-click the song and select “Rename”, all you have to do is change the "m4a" extension to say "m4r" then click yes when it asks if you really want to change the name.
• Step 10: Drag and drop the ringtone to your iTunes. Once there, you can drag and drop them to your iPhone, and you're done.

*Few more notes: Make sure to go back and reset the start and stop time of the original song, or else next time you play it, it'll only play the 30 to 40 second clip you set it to.*
*Also if you want, you can go and delete the 30 to 40 second audio clip you created, since you already have the ringtone and no longer need it.*

There you go, hopefully this will help you out and save you some money in the process.