Creating Ringtones on itunes for iPhone

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Creating Ringtones on itunes for iPhone

I have been trying to create ringtones for my iPhone from itunes.

But every time I try ti great it, it comes up with an unknow error 1156. and says that itunes cannot connect to itunes store.

Is anyone else is also facing this problem?

Sony Vaio VGN, Windows Vista

Posted on Aug 24, 2008 10:17 PM

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Aug 24, 2008 10:24 PM in response to aumgroup

This worked for me...
In iTunes, right click on the song you are going to make into a ringer and select “Get Info.”

Go to the options tab and go down to the “Start Time” and “Stop Time” check boxes. Check both boxes and input the time you want your ringtone to start/stop. The ringtone has to be 30 seconds or less. Click OK when you’re done.

Right click on your newly “clipped” song and select “Convert Selection to AAC.” The song will be re-encoded using the start and stop times determined (If your menu item does not read “Convert Selection to AAC” and reads “Convert Slection to MP3″ (or some other format) please go to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > Importing and change the “Import Using” drop down menu to “AAC Encoder”).

After the song is done encoding navigate to your iTunes Music folder, locate your song, and drag it to your desktop. After the song is on your desktop go back to iTunes and delete the clipped version from you iTunes library (It won’t delete it from your desktop, it will only remove it from iTunes).

Go back the song on your desktop and right click on your song and chose “Get info.” Go to the name and extension section and change the extension from .m4a to .m4r (or you can just change the extension right from your desktop)

After the extension is changed simply double click on the file to add it to your iTunes library under the ringtones section. Sync your phone with iTunes and you’re done!

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Aug 24, 2008 11:06 PM in response to TheGENERAL412

thanks for that.

But after converting and putting the song onto my deskstop. It doesn't give me an option for get info. And also no option for converting the extension for .m4a to .m4r at all.

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Aug 25, 2008 1:07 AM in response to aumgroup

aumgroup wrote:
I have been trying to create ringtones for my iPhone from itunes.

But every time I try ti great it, it comes up with an unknow error 1156. and says that itunes cannot connect to itunes store.

Is anyone else is also facing this problem?

The problem is because iTunes only supports ringtone creation from purchased songs from US iTunes store / with a US account.

If you have garageband, there's an easy way around the problem, and it's better as you can use any song, not just purchased ones:

1. Open garageband and iTunes, drag and drop any song from itunes into garageband.

2. Make a loop in garageband up to 40 seconds long. Do this by clicking on the Cycle Region button (Down next to the counter) and setting a 40-second region of the song that you want to loop.

3. Choose Share -> Send Ringtone to iTunes...

That's it, the song will now appear as a ringtone in iTunes.

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Aug 25, 2008 1:32 AM in response to Jamie Benaud

Thanks for that.

But I actually have windows vista, so cannot use garageband.

Also I'm in Australia and don't have US account. I even tried to download songs from US site, but I wasn't allowed to do that.

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Aug 25, 2008 12:22 PM in response to aumgroup

You dont need garageband!

What you need to do is turn on "View File Extensions" under your folder view options.
Then go to your desktop right-click, rename and change the .m4a to .m4r and sey yes when it asks if youre sure.

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Aug 25, 2008 12:27 PM in response to aumgroup

I believe that itunes ringtones are available only in the U.S.

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Aug 25, 2008 3:07 PM in response to TheGENERAL412

Thanks for that.

It was a great help.

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Aug 25, 2008 6:22 PM in response to aumgroup

Does anyone know why when I try to add multiple ringtones to iphone 3G 2.0.1 it will duplicate the songs. For instance, i will put ringtone (A) in on my phone then when I try to put ringtone (B), it will replace ringtone A so that my custom list looks like this:

Custom:
Ringtone B
Ringtone B

I've been googling for a while and I see other people have this issue. I've tried syncing, checking boxes etc. Any help?

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Aug 25, 2008 9:40 PM in response to johnk2244

This worked for me...
In iTunes, right click on the song you are going to make into a ringer and select “Get Info.”

Go to the options tab and go down to the “Start Time” and “Stop Time” check boxes. Check both boxes and input the time you want your ringtone to start/stop. The ringtone has to be 30 seconds or less. Click OK when you’re done.

Right click on your newly “clipped” song and select “Convert Selection to AAC.” The song will be re-encoded using the start and stop times determined (If your menu item does not read “Convert Selection to AAC” and reads “Convert Slection to MP3″ (or some other format) please go to iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > Importing and change the “Import Using” drop down menu to “AAC Encoder”).

After the song is done encoding navigate to your iTunes Music folder, locate your song, and drag it to your desktop. After the song is on your desktop go back to iTunes and delete the clipped version from you iTunes library (It won’t delete it from your desktop, it will only remove it from iTunes).

Go back the song on your desktop and right click on your song and chose “Get info.” Go to the name and extension section and change the extension from .m4a to .m4r (or you can just change the extension right from your desktop)

After the extension is changed simply double click on the file to add it to your iTunes library under the ringtones section. Sync your phone with iTunes and you’re done!

What you need to do is turn on "View File Extensions" under your folder view options.
Then go to your desktop right-click, rename and change the .m4a to .m4r and sey yes when it asks if youre sure.

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Aug 29, 2008 7:51 AM in response to aumgroup

I have this issue as well.

I have one ringtone that was made through the option you just mentioned about converting to AAC and changing the file extension to .m4r, and by itself, it works fine.

I have another that was done by someone else through Garage band and the file was sent to me and by itself it works fine, but when the tow are put on my iPhone, where as the converted ringtone would be "Ring A" and the Garage band ringtone would be "Ring B" it looks like this on my iPhone:

Ring A
Ring A

No matter what order I place them on my iPhone...

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Aug 29, 2008 5:03 PM in response to Dennis Last

it works perfectly on mine. My ringtones name doesn't change. Just check your settings. Or even try to rename the rigntone may be.

I haven't don't it through Garage, so I'm not sure.

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