Create Ringtones for your iPhone using Garage Band
Adam sent an email to me after watching our video about Audiko. He has a different way to get ringtones for his iPhone, and wanted to pass it along to all of you. He created a video tutorial, which is the video embedded in this post. Below, you’ll find a step-by-step written tutorial you can follow to create your own ringtones.
First off, I would like to say thanks for all of your videos. I’ve been a pretty active viewer of your live streaming and YouTube videos for about 6 months now, and I’m always learning something new to help me out in the future. So thank you!
Now to why I am writing you. I just watched your video about getting free ringtones from audiko, and I just thought I would share some information I have about how I get my free ringtones for my iPhone. I’m a new iPhone user, and one of the first things I wanted to do was get some custom ringtones to use. After googling for a little bit, I came across a forum that explained how to create your own ringtones using Garage Band, and any mp3 you have. I don’t know if you know about this yet, so I just thought I would let you know in case you didn’t.
- open both iTunes and Garage Band.
- Find the song you would like to use as a ringtone in iTunes, and drag it into Garage Band so that it creates a new track with your song.
- Locate the position where you would like your ringtone to start in the song.
- I like to make a cut at that position, as well as delete the section before the spot I chose the ringtone to start at, just because it’s easier for me. This isnt required.
- After your spot has been picked, click the button that looks like a repeat button in iTunes. It’s located by the “record” and “play track” buttons. If you hover over it, it should say “turn cycle region on or off”.
- After clicked, a golden bar should appear at the top of your track. What you want to do is position the beginning of that bar to match the spot you chose to start your ringtone.
- You can make a maximum of 40 seconds per ringtone. Just drag the end of the gold bar as far as desired… as long as it doesn’t exceed 40 seconds.
- You can now test the tone by pushing “play”. After being satisfied with your ringtone, go up to the “share” tab and choose “send ringtone to iTunes”. This will automatically convert the ringtone, and send it straight to your iTunes… and put it under your ringtones tab. From there, you just sync it like any other ringtone for your iPhone.
I hope this was of some help. I think this is a wonderful way to create custom ringtones for the iPhone.
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July 23rd, 2008
at 7:28pm
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July 25th, 2008
at 12:08am
No meu caso, os contactos e um certo e determinado toque são as primeiras coisas que configuro num telemóvel. O iPhone não foi excepção… Aqui ficam os links dos Guias: – Guia para criação do Ringtone através do iTunes em Windows ou Mac. -Guia para criação do Ringtone através do iTunes e do Garage Band, só para Mac.
jwire4
July 22nd, 2008
at 8:31pm
Great way Adam! Interesting wya of doing things. I had tried doing my ringtones in Garageband before but never got it working right thanks.
CNLEVO
July 22nd, 2008
at 9:31pm
I have been using this method for a long time until i found out an even easier way.
you only need iTunes.
1. Find your file in iTunes. Right click and “Get Info”; Under the “Options” tab check the boxes “start” and “stop”. In those boxes put the start time you want your ringtone to begin and in the stop box add 30-40 seconds to the start time you chose. Now hit “OK” so the “Get Info” window closes.
2. Right click the file and choose “Convert file to ACC”
3. Right click the converted file and choose “Show in Finder” (or whatever the option is for Windows users. Sorry I don’t know, because I never used iTunes in windows).
4.Right click the file and finder and “Duplicate” it.
5.Rename the file what you want it to be named and rename the file extension to .m4r. When you do this it will ask if you are sure, select yes.
6. You can now delete the original coverted to ACC (.m4a file extension) so you don’t have duplicates in your library.
7. Double click the new .m4r (your new ringtone) and it will be added to “ringtones” in iTunes and you can sync it on over to your iPhone.
It sounds like a lot but once you do a couple you will find it is a lot easier then the garageband and iTunes (or using Logic Studio as I did when i very first started, it had it’s benefits because I could control the sound and volume, and well in a nuteshell….everything. However it took to long.)
Kurt
July 23rd, 2008
at 10:11am
I have been using the method ever since Garage Band got the “send ringtone to iTunes” option. It works great and I have never paid for a ringtone for my iPhone. Thanks for the tip.
Toques...à borla no iPhone - iPhil
July 31st, 2008
at 2:48pm
[...] – Guia para criação do Ringtone através do iTunes e do Garage Band, só para Mac. [...]
PI
September 20th, 2008
at 12:41pm
I’ve been trying to figure this out forever – thanks for posting the video!
Jonathan
September 27th, 2008
at 4:27pm
Well, I have tried to do this but my garageband version for some reason does not show the option in the Share Menu for “Send Ringtone to ITunes” only send song and send song to podcasts…
Any idea why?
Thanks
CB
November 24th, 2008
at 11:39pm
I so can not get this to work. I have followed the instructions and it wont appear in my ringtomes folder. its breaking me.
Matt
August 2nd, 2009
at 7:35pm
Dude!! You guys rock, I was about smash my iPhone. Great instructions, I’m your number one fan.
Peace