Free custom ringtones for iPhone 3G (Mac only)
Apple has introduced a simple and free way to create and sync your own custom ringtones to the iPhone using GarageBand (i.e., Mac only). The first thing you’ll need to do, if you haven’t already, is download and install the latest update of GarageBand from Software Update (at the time of this writing, that’s version 4.1.2). Once you’ve installed and restarted your computer, turning any song on your computer to a ringtone is a breeze. Here’s how it works.
1. If you’re using a song from your iTunes library, just open GarageBand, open iTunes, and simply drag and drop the song from iTunes to a new track in GarageBand.
2. Now click the Cycle Region button pictured above, which will activate the region loop tool.
3. Now adjust the length of the region to the section of the song you want to export to iTunes as a ringtone (40 seconds long or less), again as pictured above.
4. Finally, when you’ve got everything set the way you want it, just go to the menu bar and click Share -> Send Ringtone to iTunes. GarageBand will automatically convert the song to the proper format and sync it to your iTunes library as a Ringtone.
Simple, no? Likewise, if you prefer to create ringtones of your own music, just build your own tracks in GarageBand and repeat steps two through four. Unfortunately Apple hasn’t provided a similar tool for Windows users yet, and I imagine that won’t happen for some time, if at all. But if you’re a Mac owner, creating custom ringtones for your iPhone just became dead simple.
Source from: http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/create-custom-iphone-ringtones-the-free-and-apple-way-334073.php
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August 28, 2008 at 1:15 pm
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sitelookwhit
September 1, 2008 at 4:26 am
on share ,Ringtone to iTunes does not come up an i did everything rite????
marqus
September 25, 2008 at 4:08 am
same problem for me. i followed directions and “send ringtone to itunes” does not show up. only “send song to itunes”, which does not produce the right result. i think this may have been a recent patch that prevents just this from happening but any info anyone might have on this would help.
Drew
December 27, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Same problem,this is so freakin’ annoyin’ !
harshna
April 13, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I have Garage Band ‘09. Works like a charm. Thanks!
Dee
April 17, 2009 at 11:13 pm
neat feature, but it still prevents you from creating ringtones from songs you download from itunes. the protected aac files get rejected on import.
Michael Crawford
May 11, 2009 at 9:53 pm