Cingular Ringtone

I'm getting a pop up saying
"You can create iPhone ringtones only from songs purchased from the iTunes Store"

Google is your friend 🙂

Agreed, I tried that route. To be honest I can't even remember what the "Cingular" ringtone was unlike the T-Mobile ringtone (which I made for a friend). There is an app in the app store where they will make custom ringtones for your iPhone, you might try them and see if they have that available.

Is this it:

http://homepage.mac.com/mlerch/iblog/B1528166669/C949986640/E956692539/Media/Cin gular_Tone.mid

My google pointed me to a video in youtube and from there to: http://www.phedhex.com/audio/cingular_ring25.mp3

I believe that is it, although I never used it.

Move your mouse over the MP3 song and pressing the right button, convert and choose AAC.

Then take the converted file *. ACC and rename to name_music space
. M4r. It is important to leave the space between the name and music point.
Then drag the file *. m4r to iTunes and it should be recognized as a ringtone.

Ah!, Sorry you're using windows, follow the instructions here:

http://www.question-defense.com/2009/07/14/how-to-create-free-iphone-ringtones-u sing-itunes-on-windows/

You add the mp3 file to music. Go up to "file" in itunes, click "add to library", a window will pop up for you to select the location on your computer of the mp3 file. If you save the mp3 to your desktop it's easier to find.

1. Right click on the interested song in iTunes and select Get Info.

2. Click on the ‘Options’ tab.

choose start end time for iphone ringtone

3. Enter the start and end times noted previously.

4. Right-click and choose ‘Create AAC Version’. (Depending on the version of iTunes you may see a slightly different option for AAC conversion)

5. iTunes immediately creates an AAC encoded file and it shows up in the song list. Right click on the song in the list and select ‘Show in Windows Explorer’.

6. Or you can find the file in the My Music –> iTunes Music folder. The file is stored by iTunes under the same album name as the original music track in the iTunes Music folder.

7. Change the extension of this .m4a file to .m4r. (If you are unable to view file extensions, open the file in Windows Explorer and go to Tools –> Folder Options –> View tab. Uncheck the option ‘Hide extensions for known file types.’ When Windows shows up a warning upon giving the new extension, click ‘Yes’.)
show file extensions

8. You can now transfer your newly created ring tone to your iPhone by opening it in iTunes and syncing through it.

Thanks, finally managed to create a ringtone. One problem I had is the my iTunes was set to create MP3's not AAC (changed in Preference -> Import Settings).