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How to convert songs to ringtones?

On iTunes I paid for Beatles songs that were labelled as ringtones. I changed the extension to .m4r on a couple but they are too long to be used as ringtones. How do I take a chunk of a song and convert it (shorten it) suitably to be used as a ringtone? I am using a Mac computer.

Posted on Mar 6, 2012 5:00 PM

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Apr 5, 2016 6:00 PM in response to Chris CA

Hi Chris, I tried following the steps you gave to make myself a ringtone in the newest version of iTunes, but iTunes won't let me convert the song I want to as ANY type of file out of iTunes. When I try to do this, I get a message that says "This song could not be converted because protected files cannot be converted to other formats."

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Do you have any suggestions as to what I can do to solve this problem? Thanks!

How to convert songs to ringtones?

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