M4R iPhone Ringtone

iPhone Ringtone: How to Create, Purchase, and Set

iPhone ringtone is M4R files encoding with MPEG-4 codec which is quite different from other devices' MP3 ringtones. Furthermore, the sound spectrum of iPhone ringtones also differs from other mobile phones. And Apple's iPhone allows users to create iPhone ringtone from any song purchased from iTunes store or purchase iPhone ringtone directly from the store. But you only can make your ringtone with the length of 30 second.

• Part 1: Purchase iPhone ringtone on iTunes store
• Part 2: Create iPhone ringtone with your own song for free
• Part 3: Activate iPhone ringtone

Part 1: Purchase iPhone ringtone on iTunes store

1. Make sure your Mac (or PC) is connected to the Internet.
2. Open iTunes and Log in your iTunes Store with your account.
3. Tap Ringtones at the bottom of the screen. If you don’t see it, look for Ringtone in More in your menu bar.
4. Search your target ringtone and get a preview.
5. Once you are ready to buy, tap the price to buy and follow the instruction you get.

Note: This kind of purchased iPhone ringtones are limited to 30 second. And you can buy your iPhone ringtone in two ways: pay for the ringtone which has already created from your favorite song, choose the part your purchased iTunes song and create your iPhone ringtone, then pay for it to keep it. See, actually you pay twice: one for your iTunes song and one for the iPhone ringtone. And to be frank, you can make iPhone ringtone much easier and cheaper: use iPhone Ringtone Maker for Mac:

Part 2: Create iPhone ringtone with your own song for free

To make your own ringtone, download the professional iPhone Ringtone Maker for Mac as your assistant. Then launch the Mac app, import your favorite video, audio file into the ringtone maker, then customize any part of the media file as your iPhone ringtone, it has limited your ringtone as long as 40s. After that, click “Start”. To learn more about this, you can go to the User Guide of iPhone Ringtone Maker for Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included).

Note:If you wanna extract the background music from your movies and make your iPhone ringtone, you can go to convert video (include YouTube video) to m4r iPhone ringtone for more info.

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Part 3: Activate iPhone ringtone

After you purchases or created your own iPhone ringtones, sync them to your iPhone, set your ringtone on your iPhone:

Go to Settings, choose Sounds, select your created ringtone under Ringtone section.

Note: This is for setting your incoming calls, Clock alarms, and the Clock timer.

And you can also customize an iPhone ringtone for specail persons: open Contacts, choose a person, tap on Edit button, press on Ringtone and select your target ringtone.

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