PCMag reviews products, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page.. There was a time, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when ringtones were big, big business. Songs that would play as phone calls came in on your not-so-smartphones cost about $5 to $9, though you couldn't even really play the whole song for fun, depending on your handset. I remember trying an early phone/MP3 player hybrid in the year 2000 (the Napster days) that held about 25 songs, but I couldn't use a single song as a ringtone. I had to get those separately. By 2010, the ringtone market was falling out, and it never really recovered.

Capcom Vs Tatsunoko Iso Wii Ita. But Apple still makes it ridiculously hard for the layman to create them. For iPhone, the absolute easiest way to get ringtones (beyond the standard bunch that come with iOS) is to purchase them on your iPhone, using the built-in iTunes Store app (not to be confused with the App Store app for buying apps, or the Apple Store app for buying hardware). In the iTunes app, click the More button and then Tones. This is, essentially, a store where Apple can sell re-packaged music, cut down to 30 or 40 seconds, and formatted to instantly become your latest ringtone or text tone for $1.29 or $0.99, respectively. To be fair, the iTunes Store also has a lot of perfectly timed clips that are great for text alerts, really short snippets of dialog from characters on The Simpsons, Family Guy, Sherlock, Star Wars, Star Trek, Minions, and more. But for the most part, it's a waste of money, especially because you can easily make ringtones yourself if 1) you already own the song (aka, not from a streaming service like ) or 2) want to buy it.

You also have the option to get ringtones at third-party sites, but this is a hit-or-miss proposition. Looking around the Web for places to download or even buy the sound files, I found most of them to be shady, ad-ware-driven, and best avoided. I wouldn't trust most of them with my credit card. Create Your Own Tones There are a few ways to turn music into iPhone-capable ringtones. Note that any sound file you use has to be 40 seconds or shorter to use as a ringtone (in some of the instructions below you set the length so it comes out that way). You also need to know that tone files for iOS have to be in the M4R format. In actuality, such files are in Apple's AAC format, which generally have the file extension of M4A. Handbook Of Porous Media Pdf To Excel.

Phones and IVR systems requiring other formats. If you add the optional FFmpeg library to your computer, you can export directly from Audacity to some additional mobile phone formats: AMR (narrow band), GSM 6.10 WAV (mobile), M4A (AAC) and M4R (AAC) (for M4R, add.m4r after the file name when you export).

You change the A to an R (for ringtone!) and then it will work with iTunes on Mac or Windows for that singular purpose (leave it as M4A and it's just another song to iTunes). The end goal is to sync your iPhone with iTunes, then all the M4R files become available to assign to contacts. You can have a different phone call or text alert for every person you know—you'll know who's getting in touch without ever taking the phone out of your pocket. MP3 to M4R Maybe the easiest thing to do is edit an MP3 file with software like or big down to the size you want, then convert the file to M4R.