Create a ringtone from a song on itunes 12.5

If dragging your ringtone into the Tones section on iTunes doesn't work, this is a way that works easily. Open Finder, click Music, click iTunes, click iTunes Media, then click Automatically Add to iTunes. In order for your ringtone to work, you need to have it converted to a .m4r file before you drag it in.

In addition to the awesome steps for getting AAC to .m4r files to iTunes > Tones (which, by the way, you can rename .m4a to .m4r with no issues in conversion as they are the same format) - try to keep your tones ~30secs as iPhones tend to not like them much longer, and the tone won't play all the way through anyway as most ringbacks through the carrier timeout in about 5-6 rings or ~30secs time.

Another great resource, use GarageBand for iOS and place your DRM free songs into a new song, reduce the time, add whatever effects you want, and then share it as a Ringtone and it will auto-install to your iPhone! Pretty sweet, right?

See Create and manage ringtones in iTunes.

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5. Use a "Audio Converter" to convert the song on your desktop to "m4a format".

I use "Music Converter Pro" which you can download for free on the Appstore

or you can use any software as long as you can convert the song into m4a format.

Extra software isn't necessary, you can convert a song to .m4a (assuming that's your selected format in Import Settings on the General tab in iTunes' Preferences) via the File > Convert menu option in iTunes

Bless your little heart. I used Switch to change the song to m4a, by the way.

Thanks a lot this is much Helpful rather than above one 😁

This doesn't work. You cannot drag the file from the desktop into the ringtones library.

Im not getting convert to mp3 its convert to AAC

Go into iTunes' Preferences and click on the Import Settings on the General tab - that controls both CD copying and song conversation

Convert it in AAC, then change the extension in m4a, and drag it in iTunes

Sorry it's not m4a but m4r