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How to Create Free Custom Ringtones for Your iPhone in 5 Easy Steps

“For iPhone and iPhone 3G Firmware 1.2.X Using Garageband on Mac OSX”

1. Drag the song you would like to use from iTunes* to your desktop

2. Open Garageband** (create a new project, name the file whatever you’d like)^

3. Drag the song from your desktop into the main window of Garageband.

4. Go to Share –> Send Ringtone to iTunes

If you receive a pop up window saying the file is too large, follow these steps:

A. Click Adjust
B. A new yellow bar will appear at the top of your song, showing the acceptable length (this can be adjusted)
C. Go to the Measures Window (the bottom middle blue highlighted area), Click the Down Arrow under the Note Shape, until a Clock Appears. Now you should be able to see the seconds (keep it under 40).

5. You can Adjust*** (or not^^) the part of the song you would like to fit into the new yellow part, then repeat step 4 to Send Ringtone to iTunes.

You can now go to iTunes and see your new ringtone there. Rename it (if you’d like) and Sync to your iPhone.

Photo Steps

Step 1: Dragging from iTunes to Desktop

Step 2: Opening Garageband

Step 3: Drag Song to Garageband

(it’s not necessary, but you can delete the default piano track, by highlighting it, then going to track –> delete track)

(drag song to garageband)

Step 4: Sharing Ringtone with iTunes

(new yellow bar appears at top to show allotted length for a ringtone)

(Step 4c: change the measures window [blue numbers in the bottom center of garageband] to depict time by clicking the down arrow under the “note” symbol, then go to the top and adjust the yellow bar to be under 40 seconds)

Step 5 Beyond: Advanced Adjusting Steps

(double-click song, then highlight area you would like to keep or delete in the new window)

(double-click the highlighted section and it will break your song into two parts)

(delete the part you don’t want, make sure you the remaining section is moved to the beginning)

(repeat as necessary)

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* iTunes 7.7.1
** Garageband ‘08
^ This only needs to be done once, you do NOT need to create a new file for every ringtone.
*** Adjust your song, by double-clicking it (a new window will slide up on the bottom). Hit play and see what part of the song you want, highlight that part and double-click it. The song will now be broken into two parts in the top window. Delete the part you don’t want. Repeat as Necessary.
^^ If you don’t adjust, you automatically get the first 30 seconds of the song you choose.