Make Free Custom iPhone Ringtones for Your iPhone

When you get your new iPhone, you love all the features with it but the only problem is that you do not want to pay for your songs twice to get a ringtone. You will have so many songs in your music library, but you cannot make ringtones from any of them. In fact, you can create ringtones from any one of your non-DRM songs in your iTunes library easily and for free with a little bit of trickery (nothing illegal).

                       
Things You Need

iTunes
Mac or Windows computer
Non-DRM song (one not bought from the iTunes Store)

Instructions

1. First, open the iTunes and find the song which you want to make into your ringtone.
2. Find the part of the song you want to use as ringtone. And then write down the start and stop times of the clip.
3. Right-click the song and select “Get Info”, then click the “Options” tab.
4. Type in the start time of your ringtone in the text box next to “Start Time” in the minutes: seconds (i.e., 1:01) format.
5. Type in the end time of your ringtone in the text box next to “Stop Time.” But make sure the ringtone is no more than 40 seconds long.
6. Click “OK” tab.
7. Right-click your song and select “Convert Selection to AAC.” iTune will create a duplicate version after a while.
8. Right-click the ringtone and select “Delete.”
9. Click on the “Keep Files” button.
10. And then locate the file you just saved. It’s usually in your User folder under “Music > iTunes > iTunes Music” and under the band’s name. It will have an extension of m4a.
11. Replace the m4a extension of your ringtone with m4r. You can either double-click slowly to rename your file or right-click and select “Get Info” on a Mac or “Rename” on a Windows PC.
12. Click “Use .m4r” or the PC equivalent when the system warns you that the change may affect the use of your file.
13. ITunes will automatically add it to your ringtones folder in your iTunes Music Library if you double-click the ringtone file.
14. At last, you can connect your iPhone and your sync your ringtones. Enjoy it.

Tips & Warnings

This works on both Mac and Windows PCs.
Instead of deleting it, you can also drag the newly converted ringtone to your desktop from iTunes and follow the rest of the steps.
If you are having trouble syncing the ringtones to your iPhone, find the ringtone in your Ringtones folder and change the extension back to .m4a; then attempt to sync again.
This will not work with songs bought at the iTunes store or that have DRM (copy protection). It is best to use a song that you have imported from a CD.