Custom iPhone rings

[Pic0o]

Before I go to bed, I wanted to note my success making some custom rings for my new phone. I rocked this guide, and the below steps helped me make a bunch of my own rings.

 

Import your Non-DRM song into iTunes and rock the below.

• Right-click the song and select "Get Info."
  
• Click the "Options" tab.
  
• Type in the start time of your ringtone in the text box next to "Start Time" in the minutes:seconds (i.e., 2:01) format.
  
• Type in the end time of your ringtone in the text box next to "Stop Time" Make sure the ringtone is no more than 40 seconds long.
  
• Click "OK"
  
• Right-click your song again and select "Convert Selection to AAC". Wait for iTunes to convert your song. It will create a duplicate version.
  
• Right-click the ringtone and select "Delete".
  
• Click on the "Keep Files" button.
  
• Find the file. It's usually in your User folder under "Music > iTunes > iTunes Music" and under the band's name. It will have an extension of m4a.
  
• Replace the m4a extension of your ringtone with m4r. You can either double-click slowly to rename your file, or right-click and select "Get Info" on a Mac or "Rename" on a Windows PC.
  
• Click "Use .m4r" or the PC equivalent when the system warns you that the change may affect the use of your file.
  
• Double-click the ringtone file. ITunes will automatically add it to your ringtones folder in your iTunes Music Library.
  
• Connect your iPhone and sync your ringtones.

 

If you want custom sounds for SMS, that is an entirely different beast. OpenSSH on your phone is a prerequisite from what I have seen, so I guess you also inherently need to jailbreak it too?

 

Mar 2011 Edit:

If you start to get a 13019 Sync error, remove your ringtones from sync, as some are probably over 40 seconds long. Also a heads up that you will want to edit the ID3 tag into, so the titles aren't too similar for the starting 10 characters.

Edited March 11, 2011 by Pic0o
Updated Ring info as of FW 4.3