Apple picker In today's article, we will deal with the issue of custom ringtones on iPhone or iPad and how to create a ringtone and transfer it to the device. First, we will create a space where we will store the sounds, then we will prepare iTunes, create a new ringtone, and finally sync it to the device.
Preparation
The first step will again be to create a folder, in my case it will be a folder iPhone sounds, which I place in the music folder.
iTunes settings and ringtone creation
Now we turn on iTunes and switch to the library Hudba. We have individual songs in the library, which we already added in the first part of our series. Now open the iTunes preferences window (⌘+, / CTRL+, ) and immediately on the first tab In general we have an option at the very bottom Import settings.
In the new window, select Use for import: AAC encoder a Settings we choose Own…
[do action=”tip”]If you have a song in your music library that you just want to cut and keep in .mp3 format, set the import to use MP3 encoder, create a shortened version by setting the beginning or end of the song, and create a new version of the song by right-clicking and selecting Create mp3 version.[/to]
In the last smallest window we set Bitstream to the highest value of 320 kb/s, Frequency: Automatically, channels: Automatically and we check the item Use VBR encoding. We confirm three times with the OK button and we have set the type of export and the format of the output file.
In the music library, we select the song from which we want to create a ringtone, right-click on it and choose the option Information (⌘+I). In a new window, we have all the information about the song if we switch to the tab Information, we can edit the song - give it the right name, year, genre, or graphics. If this suits you, we switch to the tab Elections.
The ringtone itself should be 30 to 40 seconds long. Here we set when the ringtone in our song should start and when it should end. My own experience is that the length should not exceed 38 seconds. After creating the footage of the future ringtone, click OK and save this modification. (You don't need to worry that this will cut the song and you'll lose it forever, it's just information for iTunes. When you try to double-click the song, it will start from the beginning you set and end at the end you set.) Now for the song right-click again and select the option Create a version for AAC.
iTunes just created a new file about us in .m4a format. Before the next step, open it again with the right button Information and on the tab Elections we cancel the start and end settings, thus returning the song to its original state.
Let's go to the folder Hudba – (Music Library)/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/ – and we find our ringtone (Interperet/Album/pisnicka.m4a folder). We'll take the song and copy it to our iPhone ringtones folder we created earlier. Now we will change the song to an iOS ringtone - we will rewrite the current extension .m4a (.m4audio) to .m4r (.m4ringtone).
We switch back to iTunes, find the newly created song in the music library (it will have the same name as the original one, only it will have the length we chose), and delete it. iTunes will ask us if we want to keep it in the media library, we choose not to (this will also remove it from the original folder where it was saved).
Now we will switch to the library in iTunes Sounds and add a ringtone. (Add to library (⌘+O / CTRL+O) – we will find our folder and the ringtone we created in it). We connect the iPhone, wait for it to load, click on it in the upper right corner next to the iTunes Store sign and from the tab Summary we switch to the bookmark Sounds. Here we check that we want Synchronize sounds, below that we choose whether all or selected by us and click on Use. The ringtone appeared on our iOS device and it is possible to use it as an alarm clock, as a ringtone for incoming calls or as a ringtone only for a specific person, it's up to you.
Conclusion, summary, and what next?
In today's episode, we showed you how to create a shortened version of a song in a certain format (m4a) - we moved it to our sounds folder, rewrote the ending to the desired ringtone format, added it to iTunes and set up synchronization with the iPhone.
If you ever want to add another sound, simply create it, add it to your sound library and set it to sync.
Hello, I want to express my support for your website. You write really good articles. I would like to ask if this section will also include a section on when I change my NB to a new one, how to move everything to the new one without having to re-copy everything to the iPhone and the like.
Thank you :)
Hello,
Do you mean, if you change the laptop, how to make a backup so that the folders are where they were originally, iTunes is set as on the original and so on?
I hadn't thought of that, but I'll look into it, thanks for the inspiration. :)
Yes, exactly. For example, I got nb for Christmas and I know that the library can be exported as xml or txt. file. But when I copied it back to the new NB it didn't work and iTunes said it was a new library, the entire iPhone was deleted and I basically had to do it all over again.
I'll look into that, thanks. :)
I have been waiting for this article for a long time, thank you very much
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Much cooler and simpler. Also, there is a big chance that what you are looking for is already on their servers :)
end some new tutorials .. keep it up ;-)
And it can't be used for messages like this?
"...it is possible to use it as an alarm clock, as a ring tone for incoming calls or as a ring tone only for a specific person, it's up to you." - I personally like the sound we created in this tutorial as a text message.
I haven't tried it yet, but based on what you have in quotes, it was not clear if it works via SMS, it only talks about calls. But if it works, all the better :)
I was hoping that "it's up to you" would be the hint that there are a lot of options, and it's up to you which one you choose. :)
That too will happen. Maybe thanks to me, others have confirmed that it also applies to the messages :)
I was wondering if it is possible to turn off the iPhone's vibrate on wakeup without turning off the "Vibrate when ringing" item.
If you have "vibration in silent mode" turned off in the settings, just switch to silent mode with the button on the side in the evening before you go to sleep and it's done - you don't vibrate in the morning. Of course, the alarm clock rings without any problems. I've been using it for a long time and it's OK.
create your vibration so that you don't do any sequence with the vibration and then set it for example to the contact you want.
If you have GarageBand, you can do it pretty well through it. Open a new song, insert the mp3 you want into it, select your 30 seconds (max.) through repetition, and then just put it in the menu Share->iTunes as Ringtone. And done.