Comments on: How to Create iPhone Ringtones using iTunes

By: strltts

strltts — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:54:04 +0000

also i tried setting it as my only ring tone and its not working..

By: strltts

strltts — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:52:46 +0000

Hi there. I feel like i followed every step perfectly.. not sure why it isnt working. the ring tone is exactly 30 seconds long, and i even deleted both the normal version and the new version from my itunes library to make sure that the ringtone was the only version of the song in there.. its still not working.. any advice?

By: misssty

misssty — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:54:31 +0000

Hi. It seems u originally posted this at least a year ago. However, just purchased iphone, and followed your steps for acquiring custom ringtones. Worked quite well, to a point (windows people may have to go into tools folder and uncheck ‘don’t show file extensions’ box, e.g). However, major problem now, and i can see thru google search that it is common, is that once ringtones are in my iphone’s ringtone folder, when i sync, it will only sync one custom ringtone at a time. the ringtones all properly appear in itunes, but if I try to sync, will only show one under custom ringtones on my phone. If i choose another, it will replace rather than add. many folks are having this problem, and i did not yet see a good explanation. Thoughts/fixes?

By: usagaf

usagaf — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:07:25 +0000

thank you very much !!!!!!!!!!!! )))))

By: Tiger

Tiger — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:58:00 +0000

You must be doing something wrong, its working on my iPhone. See reply to comment#180

By: D

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:21:56 +0000

hi!

i’ve followed exactly the steps and tried it over 5 times but it just doesn’t show on my iphone 4G. why is this happening?

By: Hyndford

Hyndford — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:37:55 +0000

Genius, works a treat and easy to follow. 1 suggestion I would make is to create a new folder “My Ringtones” and copy the m4r’s there then you can Add Folder to Library.

By: Ameen

Ameen — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:59:49 +0000

Make sure in step7 you have deleted the AAC version from the iTunes and try to make the ringtone under 30sec. like 29sec.

By: annoyed

annoyed — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:01:52 +0000

So ive made my ringtone, it shows up in the ringtone section on my itunes and its 30 seconds long.
IT WONT POP UP ON MY IPHONE THOUGH !
helppp .

By: Ameen

Ameen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:28:59 +0000

Yes, this method works on iPhone 4. Make sure you are not exceeding the ringtone time length and also read the comments to solve the problem.

By: MintyC

MintyC — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:16:46 +0000

Does it Work For The Iphone 4g? Cause It Wont Show Up On My Phone

By: Terensu

Terensu — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:41:42 +0000

Thank you very much…I’m such an idiot for not reading this properly! Thanks again!

By: trickYguY

trickYguY — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:04:08 +0000

You need to show file extension, see the indented section in step-6 to show file extension then rename the ringtone.

By: Terensu

Terensu — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:42:22 +0000

OK, I’ve followed all the steps properly, but when renaming it and putting .m4r it just becomes part of the name and does not encode it as such. Working with Windows 7 here.

By: Ameen

Ameen — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:24:40 +0000

You must be sync with another computer where you didn’t sync the music.

Check the backup if iTunes create a backup copy before syncing.

Connect you device with computer.
Select your device in iTunes Hold down the Shift key from keybord and click the Restore button.

this will asks you for restore file see the list if the backup copy is available in the list with the date when you sync the ringtone.

By: Jad

Jad — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:45:49 +0000

Everything worked but i went back to my iphone to find that all my music was deleted wtf

By: C_Style

C_Style — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:56:49 +0000

Thanks man, I’ve got some new ringtones on my iPhone now.

By: lorig

lorig — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:14:46 +0000

Thank you SO much! I’m not very good at these types of things. And your directions were so clear and easy to follow. I didn’t have one single problem. I love it. And thank you for saving me $. It drives me crazy paying the $1.29 for 30 seconds when I could get the whole song. Now, I’m able to make my own for free! Thanks!

By: trickYguY

trickYguY — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:07:26 +0000

It should play the complete ringtone, can your recheck the ringtone duration.

By: fraser

fraser — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:26:40 +0000

thnkz it worked out perfectly, but 1 question, why is my ringtone only playing somewhere like 7secs of the whole 40sec i created, is it normal? it loops back to the start(after 7 secs) of the song if phone is not answered

By: mad

mad — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:08:57 +0000

Nice to see this type of explanation..

By: liltrinapup

liltrinapup — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:17:44 +0000

My ringtone won’t go into the “Ringtone” section on iTunes!! HELP ME VIA E-MAIL!!!!!!!

By: trickYguY

trickYguY — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:18:30 +0000

see reply to comment#164 to show ringtones option in left panel.

By: The B#

The B# — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:23:04 +0000

I’m so close but so confused. There is no ringtone option in my iTunes library.

By: PainNsuffering

PainNsuffering — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:41:50 +0000

THANK YOU!!… after a half dozen bad info advice sites and a couple wasted hours of trying to implement the BAD info they offered up for the task, I found your site and BADDA-BING-BADDA-BOOM!!! Problem was solved in a matter of minutes,. GothomSwing is now my ring tone at last on my Iphone4 thanks to you!!! The tune dates way back to a late night program from my days as a kid and was difficult to find on its own much less finding it offered as a ring tone! Pity other sites are not as succinct as yours.