Step 1

Choose a song in your itunes library.

For this example, I’m going to convert the song ‘Perfect Morning’ by Orba Squara into a ringtone.

Step 2

The first step is to decide which part of the song you wish to use as your ringtone. In order to do this, right click on your song and go to ‘Get Info’. Along the top, select the tab ‘options’ and then specify the start and end time of the song. Usually you’ll want to chorus so listen to the song, note the times the chorus starts and ends and simply put in those timings. In my example I have selected a start time of 38.2 seconds in and a finish of 55 seconds. When you’ve done that, click OK

Step 3

Next, you need to convert the song into AAC format. Simply right-click on the song in your library and select ‘Convert Selection to AAC’.

(Some of you may find that it says ‘Convert Selection to MP3’ – in this instance, you need to alter the way you import songs. Go to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Importing and then in the drop-down box ‘Import Using’ select ‘AAC Encoder’)

Step 4

The song should then appear in your library, but it will only be the part of the song you specified (notice in the example the original track is above and has a length of 3.32, whereas the ringtone is below and has a length of 0.17). The next part is to find the file of song on your computer, to do this right-click on the song and select ‘Show in Windows Explorer’.

Step 5

The folder with the file should then open. Locate the file then right click on it and select ‘rename’. You can see in my example that the file extension is currently ‘m4a’. Please change this to ‘m4r’. You will get a warning message saying that changing the file extension may leave the file unusable, simply ok it.

(Some people may find that when they rename their file, the file extension (m4a in this example) isn’t visible. If this is the case, go to ‘Organise>Folder and Search Options>View’ and then uncheck the option ‘Hide Extensions for Known File Types’. Please note that this advice is for people running Microsoft Vista and other operating systems may vary).

Step 6

Now it is time to add the file to your library. Go back into iTunes and select ‘File>Add File to Library’ and then find the ringtone file and click ‘open’.

The ringtone should then appear under the ‘Ringtones’ section of your iTunes library.

Step 7

The final stage is to sync the ringtone with you iPhone. Simply click on your iphone in iTunes and on the opening ‘Summary’ page, check the option ‘Sync Only Checked Songs and Videos’.

Then click on the ‘Ringtones’ tab, check ‘Sync Ringtones’ and then hit ‘Sync’ at the bottom.

FINISHED! Your ringtone is now on your iPhone and ready to use!

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