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nickerjones · 07-11-2009, 05:56 PM

Someone Pm'd me a website that took you step by step showing you how to do this , I lost it !.... Does anyone know how to take a song from itunes and turn it in to a ringtone without paying for it ? Thanks!

Esoteric · 07-11-2009, 06:14 PM

Depends on the phone I think. I know my phone I can use Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to crop an mp3 file to use as a ringtone, then save it as a .3g2 file and I'm good to go.

Yeah_Baby · 07-11-2009, 06:34 PM

Do you on a Mac or a PC?

nickerjones · 07-11-2009, 07:27 PM

its on a mac .... what happened last time ( or what i remember ) is i found the file in itunes.... i would go to File>Get Info>Options... then i would put the start of the ringtone time and the end of the time in the start and end boxes. I would then drag the file to my desktop . CLick on the file on the desktop and save it as a .M4R and drag it back to Itunes. It was supposed to show up under the ringtone tab. Then i go back and change the settings of the original song on itunes...

cSpooge · 07-11-2009, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by nickerjones

its on a mac .... what happened last time ( or what i remember ) is i found the file in itunes.... i would go to File>Get Info>Options... then i would put the start of the ringtone time and the end of the time in the start and end boxes. I would then drag the file to my desktop . CLick on the file on the desktop and save it as a .M4R and drag it back to Itunes. It was supposed to show up under the ringtone tab. Then i go back and change the settings of the original song on itunes...

if you have garage band, you can just drag the song in to garageband and cut it down there and export it back to itunes as a ringtone.

Yeah_Baby · 07-11-2009, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by nickerjones

its on a mac .... what happened last time ( or what i remember ) is i found the file in itunes.... i would go to File>Get Info>Options... then i would put the start of the ringtone time and the end of the time in the start and end boxes. I would then drag the file to my desktop . CLick on the file on the desktop and save it as a .M4R and drag it back to Itunes. It was supposed to show up under the ringtone tab. Then i go back and change the settings of the original song on itunes...

I believe this was the link I PM'd you

I'm pretty sure I sent it too you. I'm pretty sure it was you. I know I PM'd it somewhere before.

nickerjones · 07-11-2009, 08:24 PM

that was not me but i will try it and see if it works

nickerjones · 07-11-2009, 08:33 PM

that works , but the only thing you cant do is use songs you have bought from itunes and has its protection feature

Yeah_Baby · 07-11-2009, 08:51 PM

Weird, I know I've done it with a song I bought on iTunes.

Edit: I guess it wasn't protected as it was older. Tired a new one and it didn't work.

FanIn80 · 07-12-2009, 02:50 AM

Hey, that was me that sent you that PM. I'll see if I can find it again, but what you posted earlier was pretty much it.

FanIn80 · 07-12-2009, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by nickerjones

its on a mac .... what happened last time ( or what i remember ) is i found the file in itunes.... i would go to File>Get Info>Options... then i would put the start of the ringtone time and the end of the time in the start and end boxes. Then right-click on the file and select "Create AAC version" then I would then drag the newly-created file to my desktop . CLick on the file on the desktop and save it as a .M4R and drag it back to Itunes. It was supposed to show up under the ringtone tab. Then i go back and change the settings of the original song on itunes...

Can't find the link, but I've added the missing steps in for you (check the bold parts of the quote above).

Edit: If "Create AAC version" doesn't show up, just edit your "Import Settings" in the iTunes preferences, and select the AAC encoder.

nickerjones · 07-12-2009, 11:02 AM

thank you very much

FlamesKickAss · 07-12-2009, 01:52 PM

does iringer.net work for mac?

NuclearFart · 07-13-2009, 08:56 PM

Can anyone recommend a good program that does this for the PC?

FlamesKickAss · 07-13-2009, 09:07 PM

http://iringer.net/ has a good program, its what i use

NuclearFart · 07-13-2009, 09:37 PM

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http://iringer.net/ has a good program, its what i use

Thank you. Does that program have adware/spyware or anything?

Titan · 07-13-2009, 10:17 PM

just tried garageband method. First time that program was opened. It worked slick like goose shat.

awildermode · 07-13-2009, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by NuclearFart

Can anyone recommend a good program that does this for the PC?

the above method will also work on PC

photon · 07-13-2009, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by NuclearFart

Thank you. Does that program have adware/spyware or anything?

Nope, doesn't even install, just runs as an exe.

Russic · 07-14-2009, 10:17 AM

If you are using Garageband to do this, you need the latest version. My work Mac has the 2007 version and the "save as ringtone" "share as ringtone" option doesn't work. My Mac at home on the other hand that runs the latest version of garageband does have the option.