Creating Ringtones for the iPhone 3g from DVDs
posted by pylorns
This is an article about how to create custom ringtones for the iPhone or iPhone 3g for capturing movie quotes or music from a DVD using a Mac. I’ll follow up later with one specifically for PC. This article assumes that you know a few things about how to setup itunes, audio hijack, and the built in DVD software. I also use Sound Studio Pro but Audacity will work too. *disclaimer I am not suggesting creating copyrighted ring tones - that would be wrong…
1. Launch Audio Hijack Pro and select your DVD player then click the Hijack button. Play your movie, click on record during the part of the movie that you wish to sample.
Audio Hijack
2. Open the sampled audio that you have recorded in Sound Studio Pro, or Audacity and edit it to get the amount of spoken word or music to under 40 seconds.
Sound Studio Pro
3. In sound Studio you’ll next go to File>Save As> give the file a unique name
Choose File Format of AAC (m4a)
Choose a Bit Rate, I usually go with 112 or 96kpbs.
Click Save
Saving in Sound Studio Pro
4. Now that you have saved the file you need to change it to an iTunes recognizable format for ringtones. To do this, simply right click the file and choose Get Info.
Get info of file
5. Where it says Name & Extension you want to change the extension from .m4a to .m4r
Change File Extension
6. You’ll receive a warning that says “Are you sure…” Click the Use .m4r because yes, you are sure.
Use .m4r
7. The last step, right click again on your file and choose to open with iTunes. This should put the file (if you have itunes auto-copying) in your ring tones section.
Open with iTunes
8. As you can see in my ringtones is my new sample. When I sync up my iPhone it will automatically be transferred as long as I have ringtones selected to transfer.
Voila
If you have questions post a comment.
Tags: 3g, apple, audio, hijack, iphone, itunes, ring, ringtone, tone
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July 20th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I have followed this to the letter on my powerbook and using itunes 7.7 and my iphone 3g v.2.0 and it is not moving to my ringtones… any ideas?
July 20th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Actually i used a 30 second clip of a song file but did the conversions as spec’d, but no luck.
July 20th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Find the actual file - are you sure it was ACC before you renamed it?
July 20th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
i was using audacity to clip the file but it won’t export as AAC so i used iTunes to convert it… wonder if that screwed it up? when i get info on the file in itunes it says it is a Ringtone file type… but it seems to know that it wasn’t purchased from the itunes store.
July 20th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
after i converted to aac in itunes i went to the itunes music folder and changed the file extension there… then opened the newly named file in itunes… and like i said it thinks it’s a ringtone file type but wont add it to the ringtone list…
July 20th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Ok, copy the file out of itunes as an AAC or the extension would be m4a - then rename it and then choose to open with itunes - this will re-import it. That said, since audacity isn’t saving as AAC then its adding an extra step in there to convert from mp3 to AAC. Take a look at what I did in the PC version of this.
http://www.wetwired.org/2008/07/20/creating-ringtones-for-the-iphone-3g-for-pc/
July 20th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Man, that worked that way! Thanks alot! I totally appreciate it!