How can I create ringtone? 12.6.

To create your own ringtone;

1. Open iTunes ( I'm using version 12.7..) and connect your iPhone.
2. Got to song you wish to create ringtone from
3. Right click song and select Song Info as shown below,
4. Under Song Info, select Options and set the timeline section (start/stop) of the song that you want to use as a ringtone. Please Note, the maximum duration of your ringtone cannot be more than 30s, in other words the time difference between start and stop should be 30s. Click OK
5. 
6. In iTunes go to File -> Convert -> Create Apple Lossless Version
7. A new Apple lossless 30s song will be added to your iTunes library. Right click this song and click copy. Go to your desktop and click paste. The song file will be pasted there.
8. Right click the pasted file on your desktop, change the file extension from m4a to m4r.
9. Go back to iTunes and Click the iPhone icon as shown below;
10. On the left pane, scroll down and click Tones.
11. Drag the m4r file from your desktop into Tones section.
12. Back to the left pane, click Summary and make sure the following are ticked
13. Finally, Click Synch and Done. Go to your iPhone menu and select sound, select your new ringtone. Your iPhone is now personalised and no longer using the default iPhone tones that everyone on the train uses.

I hope this was helpful.

iTunes 12.7 changed the rules of the game. See Create and manage ringtones in iTunes instead.

tt2

Apple Lossless might work, I haven't personally tested it, but it is more usual to use AAC Encoder > High Quality 128k which will give smaller files.

tt2

Create a ringtone in iTunes

1. Select a track to use as the source. You cannot use an Apple Music item, or anything that is in the cloud.
2. On the Get Info > Options tab set start and stop times less than 40 seconds apart.
3. Under Edit > Preferences > General tab > Import Settings choose AAC Encoder > High Quality 128k.
4. Use File > Convert > Create AAC version.
5. Reset the start and stop times on the original track.
6. Right-click on the new copy and click Show in Windows Explorer or Finder.
7. Delete the new entry from the library without sending to the recycle bin/trash.
8. Change the file extension from .m4a to .m4r. (You may need to adjust folder options to see the extensions)
9. Move the file into the Automatically Add to iTunes folder inside your media folder, it will be added to the Tones section of the library.
10. If you don't see Tones in the drop down media selection menu click Edit Menu at the bottom and add it.
11. Connect the device, select its icon next to the media selection menu, then the device's Tones tab, and set the sync options.
12. Sync the device.

tt2

I'm unable to a custom tone as well. The AAC option doesn't appear in the context menu. In order to create a tone, does iTunes have to be able to verify the copyright of the audio file or something? I'm trying to add a Star Trek TNG audio clip I found online.

So all of the above worked, except I don't want to sync tones... I used to be able to drag and drop the ringtone file from my itunes library screen to the phone and it would add... I have 6 already on my phone from this method. Wonder why it's not letting me D&D, see image, it's not even making my iPhone "blue" meaning I can drop it

Ah, I have the same library on two computers, and use a portable drive to keep them in sync. See Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy. Three parallel copies of the library provides a lot of resilience against failure.

tt2

Hi turingtest2, Could you clarify Step 10 in your reply to ironman3x? I'm using iTunes 12.7.0.166 on a PC. Thx.

Have you been able to set your import format to AAC 128k? On a Mac it is found under iTunes > Preferences > General rather than Edit > Preferences > General.

Do you not see the File > Convert submenu?

tt2

Try steps 3 & 4 again. The convert feature is no longer on the context menu.

tt2

Still not working...

Oh hello! There's an update.... I'll try again after updating iTunes.

Just updated iTunes and double checked steps 3-4 and still nothing. One thing I wish the iPhone had is an open file system where I could access tones, photos, vids, and docs. 😟

I don't know why it won't do it now if it used to, but then I don't understand why people like to manually manage a device when syncing is more flexible and powerful. 😕

tt2

Syncing is not more flexible when I use two computers and have to "sync and erase" everytime