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Apple just announced the ability to make custom ringtones in iTunes 7.4 only days ago. Unfortunately you have to pay for the ability to use your own music as a ringtone. You already paid for the music, why should you pay for it again? If you’re thinking along these same lines, read on. If you don’t mind paying for something twice then move along, there’s nothing for you here.
Apparently all that separates a song from a ringtone is the extension which it is given. So as you can imagine, the only thing you need to do is copy the song(s) you wish to convert to ringtones and change the extension from .AAC to .M4R. Double-click your newly created and renamed file and it’ll be imported into iTunes.
Now comes the hard part. Sync your iPhone. That’s it, you’re done. Boy that has to be one of the hardest hacks I’ve ever heard of. Just don’t tell anyone I let you in on the secret.
Free Custom Ringtones in iTunes 7.4 [via macrumors]
7 Responses to “Hacking iTunes – Get your ringtones for free”
Ty September 7, 2007
Wow! That is awesome! I wish I had an iPhone so I could do that I have a Moto SLVR and tried putting a ring tone on there and I failed miserably. I wish there was easy ways to make your own ring tones since you do own the songs like on iTunes.
Neutralspinitch September 8, 2007
i tried this several times on a mac and it didnt work.
+1Laura September 8, 2007
Yeah, i agree with you spintich… i tried this many times on my mac and it didn’t work… with several songs from different places, too. =(
NeutralTy September 8, 2007
Yea, they make it sooooo difficult. :-(
Neutralkarim attia October 22, 2007
i did change the extantion of an mp3 file and i could not get it into the i tunes if there is a specific extantain should be convert ?
NeutralAri December 28, 2008
This never works for me. I’ve tried it about 10 different times. NEVER works.
NeutralAri December 28, 2008
Andddd I just figured out what I was doing wrong. *smacks forehead*
Make sure the file extensions are visible. You can’t change “Band – Song” to “Band – Song.m4r”. You have to change “Band – Song.m4a” to “Band – Song.m4r”. To make the file extensions visible in Vista, follow this link : http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx.....extensions
Neutral