How to Make Ringtones out of your iTunes Music

Hey you guys it's me again. I recently learned how to make ringtones out of any song in your iTunes music library, for free. All you need is iTunes, your iDevice, and a little patience. If the pictures are hard to see then simply click them to make it bigger!

First off select the song you want to make a ringtone out of and right-click it. Click "Get Info" as shown here:

On the window that pops up, click the Options tab and enter the start and stop times to which part of the song you want. Keep it under 40 seconds, but I'd recommend 30 just to be safe. Make sure the boxes are checked on both Start and Stop. I'm using from the start of the song to 30 seconds into it for this example.

Now go to Edit, then Preferences. Click "Import Settings..." and set the AAC Encoder settings as shown. 

Now right click the song again and click "Create AAC Version". There will be two instances of the song in the library now, with one of them being 30 seconds long. Copy it to your desktop, then right-click and rename it to ------.M4R. So whatever your file name is change it to the extension M4R. That makes it a ringtone. Now drag that baby back into your iTunes library and voila, you have a ringtone!

Look in your Ringtones folder and there it is! If you have any questions or run into any snags let me know by commenting...

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