How to trim a song for iPhone ringtone (the easiest way). Making a ringtone for iPhone How to make ringtones on iTunes instructions

Are you tired of the standard ringtone on your iPhone? You can do it yourself in 15 minutes. Yes, that's right, it's not as usual, I chose an mp3 song and clicked set ringtone. Everything is more complicated here, of course, there is a simple way, but it is paid through the iTunes Store. Oh, these Americans, they always hide free buttons very deeply and you can’t figure it out without instructions. But there is an opportunity to do this yourself through iTunes. Let's learn this and overcome our laziness.

To create a ringtone for iPhone we need:

iTunes program;
Song or melody in any of the main formats (mp3, mpeg, etc.);
Explorer or other file manager.

The main things have been prepared. But you can only install a melody up to 30 seconds long on an iPhone, and it must also be in a strange m4r format. Let's get started!

The process of creating and installing a ringtone on iPhone will be divided into 4 stages:

Creating a section of melody for a ringtone
Converting to m4r format
Downloading ringtone to iPhone
Setting a created ringtone for a call or SMS

Attention! If you already have a ringtone in the required format, then immediately proceed to step number 3. Need to create a melody in m4a format? Then we will create it through the standard iTunes program.

Stage 1: Create a section of melody for the ringtone from the selected song

1. Launch iTunes. Click on the “Songs” button. Go to the iTunes menu item, to do this, click on the button in the upper left corner of the program. Click on the item “Add a file to the media library...”, everything is specially circled:

2. Select our file with a song or music (mp3, mpeg, etc. format):

3. Our melody has appeared in the media library. Now select it and right-click on it. In the drop-down menu, click “Information”:

iTunes will try to find the album art that the song belongs to. You'll have to wait for the process to finish, oh, this iTunes with its automation.

4. A window appears, select the “Parameters” tab. Check the start and stop checkboxes as shown below. Here we will cut it to the 30 seconds we need. We can change these parameters, but without the ability to listen to a fragment it is pointless, although you can use any MP3 player in parallel. Select a fragment and click the “Ok” button:

We set the desired duration of the composition, but know that it should not exceed 30 seconds.

5. Select the resulting melody and right-click on it. Select “Create version in AAC format.” Here it is, converting to a special format that suits iTunes:

We received a musical segment lasting 30 seconds. in AAC format. It has the extension "m4a".

Stage 2: Convert to m4r format, or rather simply rename the file extension

1. Open the folder with our melody. In iTunes, to do this, click on the melody and click “Show in Windows Explorer”:

2. In the window that appears, right-click on the file and select “Rename”:

3. Change the file type to “m4r”, press “Enter”. Click “Yes” on the warning that appears:

If you do not see the file extension, but only its name, then you should enable the show file extension checkbox in the folder settings. How to do this – Start – Control Panel – Folder Options – switch to the View tab – find the item “Hide extensions for registered types” and uncheck the box.

The ringtone for calls is ready. Congratulations, the most difficult stage has been overcome. It's time to put it on your phone.

Stage 3: How to download ringtone to iPhone 3g, 3gs, 4, 4s, 5, 5s, 5 cthroughiTunes

1. Connect the iPhone to the computer, be sure to wait for the synchronization to complete. In iTunes, click on the iPhone in the upper right corner:

2. Go to the “Sounds” tab. Check the “Synchronize sounds” checkbox. Click “Selected sounds” and put a checkmark next to the ringtone. Click “Apply” in the lower right corner:

3. After the process is completed, click the “Finish” button and then “Apply”:

Our new, freely created ringtone has been downloaded to your iPhone.

Stage 4: Change the standard melody to a new iPhone ringtone for calls

1. Pick up the phone and go to “Settings”:

2. Go to the “Sounds” section.

3. Scroll down and select the “Ringtone” field:

4. Select the ringtone you made and enjoy incoming calls:

The sounds of SMS, calls, mail, reminders, programs and widgets change in a similar way. Now you can set a ringtone on your iPhone yourself and change them absolutely free.

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Hi all! To be honest, I try not to write about things that have already been described many times on the Internet - it’s boring to repeat the same thing several times. But sometimes exceptions still have to be made: firstly, someone will ask about creating ringtones (it’s much more convenient to give a link to your article than to send a person to “Google”), and secondly, there are never too many instructions - maybe it will be useful to someone.

But the main reason for the appearance of this article is different - I recently came across a cool song, I wanted to set it as a ringtone, but in the iTunes Store all the ringtones of this song are as stupid as possible. What to do? That's right - create a ringtone yourself. And since such a drinking spree has begun, why not write about it?

No sooner said than done. Let's go!

Attention! If something doesn’t work out, feel free to ask questions in the comments - I’ll try to help.

But first, at least try to create a ringtone yourself by following these instructions. Believe me, there is nothing complicated about this. Now let's go for sure! :)

And remember right away:

The duration of the ringtone cannot exceed 40 seconds.

If your music file fits within this framework, then steps 2 and 3 can be safely skipped. If not, then follow all the steps strictly in order.

Step 1 (decide on the iTunes version)

In the latest versions of iTunes in 2018, Apple removed many features from the program. Including such important ones as full interaction with ringtones and the games and application store.

After this, the world was divided into two camps:

Those who use the “old” and “correct” version of the program (with ringtones, App Store and blackjack). Do you want the same one?
Those who are completely satisfied with the changes - they calmly updated to iTunes 12.7 and will always use only new versions of this program.

There is no fundamental difference in the process of creating ringtones between these versions. The only difference is “Step 6”.

Spoiler: it will be a little easier for those who have iTunes 12.7 and newer installed :)

Well, it's time to start!

Step 2 (let's get started!)

Since my song is longer than 40 seconds, it needs to be trimmed first. To do this, you can use any program, or the same iTunes.

We launch iTunes (we don’t connect the iPhone yet), open the “Songs” tab and simply drag and drop our “blank” ringtone there.

Step 3 (cut the song)

Right-click on this song and select “Information”.

A window opens in which we need to go to the “Options” tab.

Do you see the two lines “Beginning” and “End”? This is exactly what we need. You need to select the fragment of the song that you want to play on the call. Let me remind you that the duration is no more than 40 seconds.

In my case, I leave the very beginning of the track - from 0 to 40 seconds. That's a really good guitar there :)

Click "OK".

We return to “Music” and see that nothing has changed. In fact, this is not so - if you try to play this track, its duration will be exactly 40 seconds.

Step 4 (convert ringtone)

Now select our future ringtone and in the top iTunes menu click “File – Convert – Create a version in AAC format.”

Oops! Another track with the duration we need has appeared in the list of songs!

By the way, now you can return the original file to its previous duration or delete it if you no longer need it.

Step 5 (change the file extension)

We're almost there! We take the resulting 40-second excerpt and simply drag and drop it onto the desktop.

Now we need to change the parameters of this file from .m4a on .m4r. But, there is a small catch! The default Windows setting hides file extensions. What should I do?

That's it, now we see that the ringtone file at the end of its name has the extension .m4a

Right-click on it, select “Rename” and change one letter. Instead of .m4a should be .m4r

We do not pay attention to system warnings.

Step 6 (transfer ringtone to iPhone)

Instructions for iTunes version 12.6.3.6

Connect the iPhone to the computer and:

In the top menu of iTunes, select the “Sounds” section.
We drag our file (already with permission .m4r) in this window.
Click on the phone icon.

The phone content management menu opens. What are we interested in here? That’s right – again “Sounds” :)

Select this item - click synchronize - selected sounds - mark the ringtone we need. With a feeling of accomplishment, click “Apply”!

The ringtone we created has moved to the iPhone!

Instructions for iTunes version 12.7 and older

In new versions of iTunes, everything is much simpler - just drag the ringtone you made to the left side of iTunes (the “On My Device” section) and it will immediately appear on the iPhone.

Step 7 (install ringtone on iPhone)

On the phone, open “Settings – Sounds, tactile signals – Ringtone” and at the very top we find the melody we need.

All. We were able to independently install our own ringtone music on the iPhone.

Honestly, I can imagine what feelings you are experiencing right now, probably something from the series...

Hooray! Victory! Finally! Damn, Apple is smart! Tim Cook, are you crazy? Thank God it's over! :) These were the thoughts I had at the moment when I made and installed my first ringtone on the iPhone. But in reality... Believe me, the main thing in this matter is to “get your teeth into” and subsequently everything will happen “automatically”. Maybe:)

P.S. Did the instructions help? Like, click on the social media buttons, and write in the comments! I will be very grateful - thank you very much in advance!

P.S.S. Having problems? I understand that creating ringtones is not an easy task and some questions may arise. What to do in this case? Again, write in the comments - we’ll figure it out together!

Ringtones for iPhone have not lost their relevance, because changing the ringtone brings a little variety to our everyday life. The other day I decided to create a new melody for myself and put it on my iPhone’s ringtone, but it turned out that the updated iTunes has minor changes in the interface, which made the task a little more complicated. If you make and install ringtones in outdated versions of iTunes, then read the instructions here - “”. Well, we will look into the 12th version of Tuna.

For convenience, the instructions are divided into two sections:

Now, on the computer, we look for our music file in MP3 format, click on it with the mouse and drag it into the music library (3).

Our music file has appeared in the iTunes library. Now right-click on it and select – Information (4).

In the window that opens, look for Settings. Set the start to 0:00, end to 0:30 and click OK. Thus, the length of our iPhone ringtone will be 30 seconds. I tried to make a ringtone lasting 3 minutes, iTunes did not let it through, it gave the following:

"The ringtone was not copied to the iPhone because its duration was too long."

Therefore, 30 seconds is the best option.

We select our music track by clicking on the file in iTunes with the mouse, the track is highlighted in blue. Now we are looking for the tab:

File – Convert – Create AAC version

I don’t know why Apple hid this function so far, it used to be simpler - you right-clicked on the file and converted, now the conversion path has become a little longer.

After a couple of seconds, we get our 30-second file, with the same name as the original file. Right-click on this 30-second melody and select – Show in Windows Explorer (Show in Finder, click on Mac OS users).

In the window that opens, we see our ringtone file, but still in M4A format; we rename the M4A extension to the M4R extension. If you have difficulty renaming an extension or the extension is not displayed, then look at the instructions - “”.

If you don’t feel comfortable creating ringtones in iTunes, you can use the following services and programs:

After which you can use the second part of this instruction to synchronize these ringtones to your Apple iPhone.

Set a ringtone for an iPhone call

The renamed melody in M4R format is our created ringtone for iPhone. In fact, the ringtone is ready, now you need to put it in the iPhone by synchronizing it.

Using the mouse, grab the finished M4R file, drag it into iTunes and drop it directly into the program. Before doing this, it is advisable to transfer this ringtone to some folder of your own (and drag it from it to iTunes), since it may still be useful in the future. There is another way to add ringtones to iTunes -.

To make sure that the M4R ringtone was successfully added to iTunes, do the following: at the top of the program, where we had the “Music” section, click and select “Sounds”. If there is no “Sounds” section, then in the same context menu, from the bottom, click – “Edit menu”, check the “Sounds” checkbox and click Finish.

In iTunes 12.7, the developers removed the Edit Menu button, so some users cannot enable the Sounds section. Now the ringtone is added to the iTunes program by dragging the ringtone in M4r format. You can drag the ringtone - .

Once in the Sounds section, we should see our 30-second file. If we see it and it is there, then the ringtone has been successfully added to iTunes. Sometimes, despite correctly performing the steps above, the ringtone does not appear in the Sounds section, this happened in iTunes under MacOS; deleting a 30-second file from the Songs section, which apparently somehow interfered with the loading of M4R, helped. But when deleting this file, you need to select the button – Keep File.

If your M4R ringtone does not appear in Sounds, then there may be problems with the original MP3 music file, in which case try other MP3 music files. Or try making a ringtone not in iTunes, but using other services and links to which we provided.

If ringtones appear in iTunes, in the Sounds section, then put them in the iPhone:

We take a USB cable and use it to connect the iPhone to the computer. In the top bar of iTunes, click on the iPhone icon that appears
In the left sidebar under the iPhone itself, click the section - Sounds
Check the box - Synchronize sounds
Choose: All sounds or Selected sounds
At the bottom of iTunes, click Apply or Sync

We wait until all stages of synchronization have completed and iTunes will record the ringtone into the iPhone. Then we take the phone, go to Settings - Sounds - Ringtone, and we see our ringtone is the very first one in the list.

If you want to turn on iPhone flashes when there is an incoming call, which will accompany your melody, then read -.

If you decide to delete ringtones from your iPhone, then read –. Well, if you still have questions about ringtones for iPhone or you want the same beautiful ringtone name as in the last picture, then welcome to ours - “”.

Hello everyone, dear readers. Today I will tell you how you can quickly and without special knowledge make a beautiful (i.e. with a fade-in effect and a fade-out effect) ringtone for your iPhone using a special online service.

You do not need special software or any complex manipulations with the iTunes program. All you need to do is upload the song you want to make a ringtone from to a special service, indicate the beginning and end, download the finished file and upload it to iTunes.

So, let's go through each of the steps in more detail.

Creation

As I said above, we will create a ringtone online, through a special service. To create a ringtone, follow these steps:

The ringtone is ready, now all that remains is to download it to your iPhone, this can be done through the iTunes program. Some instructions on this issue are below.

To add a ringtone to your iPhone via iTunes, do the following:

Connect your device to your computer using your USB cable and launch iTunes;
Now just take and transfer the previously created ringtone into the program. Similar to how you transfer files from one folder to another;
Perform synchronization. This can be done in the main window by clicking the “Synchronization” button. This process should not take much time.

Now all that remains is to set the melody. Select “Settings” on your iPhone, then “Sounds”, then “Ringtone”. We look for our ringtone and select it.

That's all for today, how do you like the article? Were you able to set your favorite song for ringtone? If you have any questions, ask them in the comments to this post. See you in the next useful materials.

It's very simple, but not everyone knows it.

Method to create ringtones for iPhone via iTunes Many users of Apple smartphones call it inconvenient. It’s difficult to argue with them, since the process of creating a ringtone in iTunes cannot be called intuitive. Luckily, there are many other ways to create an iPhone ringtone. We described the simplest of them in this instruction.

Why is this method the easiest?

The simplicity of the method described below lies in the fact that you do not have to install any special software for cutting songs. Everything happens online, which means the only thing you need is a computer with Internet access. In addition, you don’t even have to rename the resulting ringtone in .m4r format. The service will do everything itself.

Step 1. Go to the service website mp3cut.

Step 2: Click " Open file" and select the song from which you want to create a ringtone. You can also add a song via a direct link, from Google Drive or Dropbox.

Step 3: Select the start and end of the ringtone by moving the blue sliders. You can set a more precise interval using the arrows on the keyboard.

Note: If you want the ringtone to start smoothly and gradually increase in volume, turn the Smooth Start switch to the active position. The “Smooth Fade” parameter works in a similar way, but for the end of the ringtone.

Step 4. Select Format " Ringtone for iPhone».

Step 5. Once the ringtone creation is completed, click " Trim" The big advantage of this service is that the download of the trimmed song occurs directly, without the need, for example, to view advertising.

Ready! The ringtone has already been downloaded to your computer in .m4r format. All that remains is to add it to iTunes and sync it with your iPhone.

How to download a ringtone to iPhone

Step 1: Launch iTunes, connect your iPhone to your computer, and select your smartphone.

Step 2. Select the section “ Sounds” in column “ On my device“.

Step 3. Drag the created ringtone to the iTunes window to download it to your iPhone.

In this simple way, you can quickly create a ringtone and download it to your iPhone. Agree, this is much easier than cutting the song via iTunes and manually rename the file to the desired format.

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