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I’m sure there are hundreds of tutorials on how to do this on the net, but I could only find products selling the service. Below is how to change one of your tracks on your iPhone into a ring tone for free.
First you have to pick your song.

Once you have decided right click on that song and click on get info.

A pop up will appear with all the songs info in it. If you click on the Options tab you will see start and stop times. You can play around with these times to get the snippet of music you want as your ring tone. you can play around with it down to the millisecond to get that perfect piano or guitar rift for your ring tone.

The correct syntax for the time will be mm:ss.ms so if i want to start 1 minute and 30 seconds into the song i would put 1:30.0

You can miss off the milliseconds if you are not that bothered i just like my ring tone to be perfect. The one rule you have to stick to though is that the song can only be 30 seconds long.

Once you have played around with this you will need to create a copy of your song. Two reasons for this. First you will need to change the file type for this to work and also you don’t want to only have a 30 second track instead of your original track.

Ok to create the copy of your file you will want to go to advance and click on Create AAC version. This will then put another song in you play list which will be 30 seconds long. Drag this onto your desktop (Or any where you save this stuff). Now you will have to just change the file type from an .m4a to a .m4r file type. To do this we will go into the command line.

To do this in XP go to start then run, in the pop up box type cmd. in Vista in the search bar type cmd. Once this has launched this will give you the black command line box.

Change your directory to the Desktop by typing “cd Desktop”

Once you are in the correct folder type “dir” to make sure you can see the file. If you can type in the following command.

copy “Your Music File.m4a” “Your Ringtone File.m4r”

for the “Your Ring tone File.m4r” file you can name it what you want as long as it has .m4r on the end. If your file does not have spaces you will not need the “” wrapping the file name.

OK now you have your ring tone on your desktop time to drag it back into iTunes but make sure you drag into the ring tones menu.

Sync your iPhone to upload the ring tone. Once it has synced you will be able to set your ring tone on your iPhone. To do this go to Settings then Sounds and then Ring tone. You should now see your ring tone under Custom.

OK you think you are done right?? Wrong!!

Now you need to go back to iTunes and fix the original song so it is not 30 seconds long. To do this just go back to the songs options in Get Info and untick the start and stop times.

Now you are all done. Enjoy your new iPhone Ring tone.