How to Make Your own Ringtones
You call someone and you get this whacky or jazzy Shakira or Christina Aguilera ringtone. You go all head bobbing and the like, till the person on the other end picks up. Then if it is your real good buddy and the ringtone is not one you frequently get to hear, then you tell your friend to hang up, right? This is a very common scenario, isn't it? But hey, you too can have your favorite song as a ringtone. All you need is music and your phone. Ringtones are great add-ons to have in your phone. Further, trust me it is not at all a tough task. In fact it is almost a cake walk.
How to Make Your own Ringtones for Free
A few easy steps and you would be all raring to flaunt your ringtone. You would not have to envy others who have a rocking ringtone!
Tone 1
Check out the voice recorder application on your cell phone. It is mostly there in all the cell phones, still confirm once. This is mostly for Nokia, but this can be done in a similar manner for other mobile phones as well.
Tone 2
Go to the voice recorder before you get to the download of the ringtone, Do not start before the ringtone starts.
Tone 3
Now play the song with the help of CD, computer or the MP3 player. Of course it has to be the one which you want as ringtone to make your own ringtone.
Tone 4
Once you are ready to put the song on, hold the cell phone as close as possible to the source of music. Start recording by pressing the record button on your phone.
Tone 5
The previous step will help the phone record the song. Keep the volume reasonably loud, which will help the phone record the song properly. If this is not done ring tone will turn out to be a damp squib.
Tone 6
Stop recording once you get the desired song and its desired portion. Then you go the recordings list, choose the one you recorded. You will have options regarding that recording. Select use as tone from those options. Then choose 'set as ringtone'. That's it! Wasn't it easy?
That was one way in which you can carry on with how to make your own ringtones. Let's check out the same thing with i-phone.
Make Your Own Ringtones for iPhone
To make your ringtone for iPhone, we take it for granted that you have itunes. So the steps are the same till you pick the song and the part of the song you want from the itunes. Here is what you will have to do after that.
Tune 1
Now, jot down the start and stop times of the clip you selected. Then right-click the song and pick 'Get Info'. Follow that up by clicking on options tab.
Tune 2
Taking ahead from the last step, Pick the 'Options' tab and then feed in the start time of your ringtone in the text box in the minutes:seconds (i.e., 2:01) format in the space given to put in the start time. Do the same thing with the stop time. Make sure your ringtone is not more than 40 seconds in duration.
Tune 3
Then click "OK. What you do next is right-click on the song again and select 'convert selection to AAC.' Hang on for iTunes to convert the song. A copy of the file will be created. Then delete the ringtone and click on button saying keep files.
Tune 4
To make your own ringtone the next step is to find the converted file. It will be typically in the user folder under "Music > iTunes > iTunes Music, under the band's name with an extension of m4a". The next in line is to shuffle the m4a extension of the ringtone with m4r. Right click and select 'Get Info' if you have a Mac or rename on a Windows PC. Or what you can also do is double-click slowly to rename your file.
Tune 5
We have almost come to the end of this making your own ringtones project! Now click on "use .m4r" or the corresponding PC format, only after the system gives you a message that the change in the format may affect the file usage.
Last, but not the least, double-clicking on the ringtone file will lead the iTunes to automatically add that to your ringtones folder in the iTunes Music Library. All you have to do is connect your iPhone and sync your ringtones. Done! Easy right?
Another way for how to make your own ringtone is to download a specialized software. Make your own ringtones and send them to your phone through this software. Have fun!
