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Problem loading custom ringtone on iPhone?

Asked by metadog (378points) July 1st, 2012

Hi! I am a Disney nut and have a recording from the Disney parks that I want to use on my new iPhone as a ringtone. The clip is about 8 seconds and I have followed the tutorials to get it into the form of a ”.m4r.”

http://techtips.salon.com/make-iphone-ringtone-mp3-3546.html

But iTunes won’t load it, and I can’t get it on the phone. Is it too short? I can loop it in some software I have until it is close to 30 seconds. Thoughts?

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Silence04's avatar

Are you on a Mac? GarageBand has an export to iOS ringtone option.

metadog's avatar

Hmmm… No, I have been trying to do this on a PeeCee, but I do have a Mac as well. Worth a try. Thanks!

sinscriven's avatar

This is what I usually do when I’m making ringtones on my PC.
1) Create soundfile, usually in something like Audacity.
2) Save sound as a WAV file
3) Open iTunes and drag to regular music library.
4) Right click the file in the iTunes library and select “Convert to M4A”
5) When it’s done converting, drag that file back out to the desktop. Delete both copies that are currently in your library.
6) Change the M4A extension to M4R.
**You MUST make sure that “Hide file extensions for known file types” is disabled to do this. Open a folder and go to Organize>Folder and Search Options>View.
7) Go back to iTunes and open the ringtone library. Drag M4R file to it.
8) Sync.

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