How to Create Custom Ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1 or QuickTime for Free

Here a couple of ways to create and use your own custom ringtones on the iPhone for free:

GarageBand (require: iLife)

For GarageBand users Apple’s latest update; 4.1.1 allows iPhone users to easily create their own Ringtones.

1. If the song you want is in your iTunes library; simply drag and drop the song from iTunes to Garageband into a new track.
2. Turn the cycle region on.
3. Adjust the cycle region of the song to accommodate what part of the song you want the ringtone to be; it can be any part of the song but must be 40 seconds or less.
4. Choose Share > Send Ringtone to iTunes
5. Sync with your iPhone, change your ringtone and have a friend phone you.

Via LifeHacker.However this expects you to own iLife which some users don’t so here’s another way which everyone can do with QuickTime that comes with every installation of Mac OSX.

QuickTime

1. Open the Song in QuickTime
2. Adjust the Selection Indicators to where want the ringtone to start and end (>40secs)



3. Copy the selection (⌘C)
4. Open new QuickTime Window
5. Paste the selection (⌘V)
6. Export (⌘E) the file as “INSERT_NAME_HERE”.m4r



7. Double click on the newly created Ringtone (in the Finder)
8. Sync with your iPhone, change your ringtone and have a friend phone you.

Unfortunately there are a few more steps but it just as simple, will work on both Macs and Windows and it is 100% free.Update: Apparently the regular version of QuickTime doesn’t have Selection Indicators so doing it that way will cost you $29.95. However you can accomplish this with any Audio Mixer/Editor; for example use Fission’s trial to edit the song into the ring tone you want and save it as .m4r. Or as Brad’s comment below shows you can also do this with the open source Audacity.

 
 

Submitted on December 15, 2007 at 3:34 pm - How to Create Custom Ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1 or QuickTime for Free was written by Travis Jeffery - There have been 8 comments - Categorized in General Tips, Intermediate Tips, Quicktime Tips, iPhone Tips - Tags: garageband, iphone, QuickTime, ringtones

8 Responses to “How to Create Custom Ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1 or QuickTime for Free”

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   Garageband 4.1.1 now exports custom Ringtones!

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   December 15th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
   
   
2. 
   Steve
   Selection indicators seems to be a Quicktime Pro option (i.e. not free) December 15th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
   
   
3. 
   Brad Jasper
   Steve,
   
   It seems you can also do this with Audacity (free) but it takes some effort. If anybody has a faster way to do this please let me know.
   
   1. Download http://audacity.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Audacity
   2. Download http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php" rel="nofollow">Lame Mp3 Codec (Required for Mp3 Export)
   3. Export audio as MP3
   4. Open in iTunes and convert to ACC
   5. Rename ACC file to .m4r
   6. Import into iPhone December 15th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
   
   
4. 
   tones
   Requires Quicktime Pro which is not free. December 16th, 2007 at 7:48 am
   
   
5. 
   Travis Jeffery
   Woops, I've been using QuickTime Pro for a while now so I didn't know. However you can use any Audio Mixer/Editor to change the song it just has to be in the filetype .m4r. Other options would be to just trial something like http://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/" rel="nofollow">Fission, edit the song and the uninstall Fission and so forth. December 16th, 2007 at 11:27 am
   
   
6. 
   NicFred
   You can also use the free version of wavepad to edit the sound clip you want, and then import the WAV file into iTunes. Here, you use the advance command "convert to AAV". This will produce the same file with m2a extension. Make a copy of this file, rename the extension to m4r, double-click to reload into iTunes, where it will show up under Ringtones. February 18th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
   
   
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   Travis Jeffery
   Check out my post on Audacity: http://www.mactips.org/archives/2008/02/01/audacity-great-open-source-sound-editor-free/. Any sound editor will work it just needs to be > 40s and be in the file formate .m4r February 18th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
   
   
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   May 13th, 2008 at 12:08 am
   
   

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