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How to Make Personalized iPhone Ringtones for free (Snow Leopard included)

iPhone demonstrates a perfect combination of utility, interest and entertainment. There are many little tricks can help you take full advantage of your mighty iPhone. This article is about making ringtones. If you have many songs in your iTunes library, don't you want to create custom ringtones without paying for it again? This article guides in making ringtone with iTunes, QuickTime X, and extract audio from DVDs or videos (like YouTube videos) on Mac (Snow Leopard included).

Part one

Part Two

Part Three

Part one: Make iPhone ringtones with iTunes (Snow Leopard included)

  1. Open iTunes, and find the song you want to make into a ringtone.
  2. Listen to the song and find the part of it you want to use. The chorus may be a good place to start. Then write down the start and stop times of the clip.
  3. Right-click the song and select "Get Info." In "Options" window, specific the "Start Time" and "Stop Time" in the minutes:seconds (i.e. 2:01) format. Make sure the ringtone is no more than 40 seconds long. Then Click "OK".
  4. Right-click your song again and select "Convert Selection to AAC." Wait for iTunes to convert your song. It will create a duplicate version.
  5. Right-click the ringtone and select "Delete." Then Click on the "Keep Files" button.
  6. Find the file. It's usually in your User folder under Music > iTunes > iTunes Music and under the band's name. It will have an extension of "m4a."
    Note: If you can't find it, right click the song and select "Get Info". Click on the "summary" tab and track down your file according to "where" specifics.
  7. Replace the "m4a" extension of your ringtone with "m4r". Click "Use .m4r" when the system warns you that the change may affect the use of your file.
  8. Double-click the ringtone file. ITunes will automatically add it to your ringtones folder in your iTunes Music Library. And now it is ready for being synched to your iPhone.

Part Two: Make iPhone ringtones with QuickTime X

  1. Open your MP3 songs with quicktime X
  2. Select edit -> trim; trip your clip, make sure that it is no more than 40 seconds.
  3. When you're finished, save as, select iPhone.
  4. Find the file and rename file from m4v to m4r.
  5. Drop it into itunes ringtones section & sync!

Part Three: Extract M4A Audio from DVD or Video and use it as ringtones(Snow Leopard included)

  1. To extract M4A audio from DVD, you need a professional DVD Audio Ripper (Click Here for Intel version) To extract M4A audio from video, you need Video to Audio Converter(Click Here for intel version)
  2. Select "M4A" output format.
  3. Find the file and change the "m4a" extension to "m4r". Click "Use .m4r" when the system warns you that the change may affect the use of your file.
  4. Double-click the ringtone file. ITunes will automatically add it to your ringtones folder in your iTunes Music Library. And now it is ready for being synched to your iPhone.

Both iSkysoft DVD Audio Ripper for Mac and Video to Audio Converter for Mac are perfectly compatible with Snow Leopard. With the above three tricks, you can create your own iPhone ringtones from almost any songs, videos and DVDs you owned easily! Get started now!

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