This is a tutorial on how to make iPhone ringtones with iTunes 8.

Hit the video after the ‘leap' for the demonstration or read my break down below on how to make a custom iPhone ringtone, totally free, using JUST iTunes 8.

1. Find an MP3 (not AAC or anything with DRM [i.e. not bought, except Amazon])
2. Right click on the MP3 and choose ‘Get Info' and select ‘Options'
3. Set the start and stop time to your favorite part of the song. You'll want it to be no more than 20 seconds in length
4. Click ‘ok'
5. Right click on the song again, this time choose ‘Create AAC Version'
6. Drag the newly made AAC file from iTunes to your desktop
7. Delete the newly made AAC file from iTunes (it won't work if you have duplicates)
8. Change the name of the extension (the file on your desktop) from ‘m4a' to ‘m4r' (note: to see extension in Vista you'll need to modify an option in your Control Panel
9. Now drag the file, with the new extension, back into your iTunes Library. It should appear in your ringtones section.

How to make iPhone ringtones from DVD and Videos on Mac?

If you want to make iPhone ringtones from DVD or videos, you need use software to extract audio from DVD or videos to MP3 first. iMedia Converter can help you to extract audio from DVD and videos to MP3. Then you can use iTunes 8 to make iPhone Ringtones. Follow this tutorial, you can set movie quotes as your iPhone(iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4) ringtone. You can also set any song you like as your ringtone.

Software Required:

iMedia Converter for Mac
Download URL:

• Intel Version

Related software: iSkysoft iPhone Ringtone Maker

1Run iMedia Converter for Mac

To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and drag the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want it).

2Load DVD or Videos you want to extract M4R from

Drag & drop the DVD disc image or video file(s) to the grey area. Or go to “File” menu, chose “Load DVD” or “Add Video/Audio files” and navigate to the files you want to add.

After a DVD or several video files are imported successfully, you can see all of them listed in the program.

3Trim Video

Use the split function to get the segment of the video you want to extract M4R audio for your iPhone as ringtone. Make sure that the video trimmed is less than 30 Seconds.

4Choose output format as M4R

5complete

Click "Convert" button to start to convert Videos and DVD to M4R as your iPhone(iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4) ringtone.

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